Sustainable Development

Received his MA in Public Policy at CEU. Currently working as a researcher at the Center for Business and Society, CEU Business School. His research area covers corporate social responsibility, substance abuse prevention, and business involvement in the resolution of complex social issues.

After having completed my Masters from Stanford University in Energy Systems, Combustion, and Chemical Thermodynamics, I decided to try something new but still related to my original field of research, energy.  I have been a visiting researcher at CEU since July studying energy efficiency in buildings and primarily focused on energy efficiency modeling scenarios for UNEP and GEA.

Stefan is a PhD Candidate at CEU. His academic interests are in international relations theory and development policy, development aid, international negotiations, and state building in sub-Saharan Africa. He is focusing in his research on the functionality of Western institutions in non-Western areas and more specifically on development aid negotiations. Stefan received a BA in Political Science and a BA in Law after studying at “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; “1st of December 1918” University, Alba Iulia, Romania; University of Salzburg, Austria and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Stefan holds an MA in Public Policy from Central European University.

Veronika Czakó is a PhD candidate at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at CEU. She completed her undergraduate and master’s studies at Budapest Corvinus University and at the London School of Economics, majoring in Economic Policy, with a minor in Sociology. Her current research focuses on climate change action at the city level, from at multi-level governance perspective. Veronika is affiliated to the 3CSEP research center at CEU, where she has been responsible for projects carried out for UNEP and WWF.

Stephen Stec first taught business law at CEU in 1992 and returned in 1999 as an adjunct in ENVSCI. For almost 20 years he has done fieldwork with international organizations in Europe, Central Asia, Africa and China, including UNEP, UNDP, OSCE, UNECE, EBRD, REC and CEELI.  He participated in the negotiation of the Aarhus Convention and other MEAs and contributed to environmental peacebuilding efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in the Sava River Basin. From 2006-08 he served on the Managing Board of the ENVSEC initiative (www.envsec.org). He is a fellow of the Institute for East European Law and Russian Studies at Leiden University (NL), a member of the World Justice Forum and IUCN CEL, and serves on the editorial board of the European Energy and Environmental Law Review. In 2007 Mr. Stec was a co-recipient of the Rule of Law Award.

The widely accepted and recognized modern principles of water resources management require watershed-wide approach. It was already incorporated in water codes of many countries as well as international treaties such as Water Framework Directive adopted by EU.