Achim Kemmerling holds a PhD in Political Science from Free University Berlin. Before coming to CEU he worked at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), the Jacobs University Bremen and the Hertie School of Governance Berlin. His research interests include the political economy of social and labour market policies, taxation and development.
Since January 2010 Assistant Professor at the Central European University in Budapest. Senior Research Associate (since 2005, Senior since 2007), Deputy Program Director "Migration" (since 2007), the leader of the research sub-area EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets (since 2006) and former Deputy Director of Research (2009) at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. Martin Kahanec has held several advisory positions (the World Bank, the European Commission, OECD, etc.). Member of several professional associations (AEA, ESPE, EALE, EEA). His main research interests are Labour and Population Economics, Ethnicity, and Migration. He has published in refereed journals, has a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality (OUP), and he has edited scientific volumes and a journal special issue.
Interested in the emergence of the Roma Policy inside the European Community. Investigating the allocation of Structural Funds towards projects and programs targeting Roma Communities
Karoly (Charles Jokay) is a municipal finance and creditworthiness specialist with extensive experience in Central and Eastern European countries, including Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, Macedonia and Romania, and recently (2009), India, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. Having served for two years as the Municipal Capital Markets Development Advisor to the Ministry of Interior and to the Ministry of Finance in Hungary, he has extensive regional experience in policy reform, municipal finance and budgeting, utility infrastructure, and information marketing and dissemination to municipalities. His firm, IGE Consulting Limited (www.ige.hu), established in 1996, provides municipal finance and development consulting to international donors and to Hungarian municipalities.
Marvin Lazerson is professor of higher education policy in the Department of Public Policy, Central European University and professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania. He holds A.B. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University in New York City and a PhD in history from Harvard University. He is a widely published scholar in the ares of educational history, higher education, and social policy. A member of the National Academy of Education (U.S.), he is past president of the History of Education Society. He has taught at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of British Columbia, as well as the Penn, where he also served as dean of the Graduate School of Education and the university's interim provost. In addition to teaching at CEU, he coordinates the higher education policy stream in the Department of Public Policy.
Eniko is a probationary PhD student in DPP. She earned a BA from Middlebury College (2002) in Political Science and Spanish, and an MSc from the London School of Economics (2006) in Comparative Politics. Eniko has served as a Junior Professional at the World Bank, in the area of public administration reform and anti-corruption in Latin America. She has also worked for the European Commission, in DG Development and for the EC Delegation to Nigeria. More recently, she observed elections in Ghana and Ecuador for the Carter Center and the EU. For her dissertation, she plans to study the relationship between externally-regulated anti-corruption commissions, donor agencies and local politics in Africa. Her broader research interests include the politics of foreign aid and EU development policy.
Gar Yein Ng is a scholar and expert in the field of judicial organization and comparative constitutional law. She obtained her PhD from the faculty of law at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, in March 2007. Her PhD thesis project looks at how organisational quality (i.e. TQM and quality standards) operates alongside constitutional principles of judicial independence and accountability. She has academic backgrounds in both civil and common law system.
