István Bodnár is Recurrent Visiting Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department of Central European University. He studied philosophy, English and Latin philology at Eötvös University, and earned his doctoral degree there with a thesis on Parmenides, under the supervision of Prof. Imre Ruzsa in 1992. His research interests include ancient metaphysics, epistemology, physical theory, and science.
Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Nov.1., 1950. Studied philosophy and social science in Zagreb University, and at the University of Chicago (1969/70), graduated 1972, Zagreb. Post-graduate studies at the Univerisity of Paris-X (Nanterre) with Paul Ricoeur. DES en philospophie from Universite de Paris X. Doctorate on "Theories of communication intention-Austin, Grice, Strawson" 1981. University of Ljubljana. After a semestar at the University of Rijeka, taught philosophy at the Philosophy department in Zadar, Croatia, from 1975 to 1993. Presently full professor of philosophy at Philosophy department of the University of Maribor, Slovenia and Director of Doctorate Support Program at Central European University Budapest
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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.
Tom Glaser retired from thirty years’ service with the European Commission in 2005. His tasks included six years dealing with the ACP countries and, since 1993, with the enlargement process.His final job before posting to Budapest was concerned with public information covering 28 countries involving a budget of €150 million. He ended his tour in Budapest as Head of the EU Representation. Since 2006, he has been a visiting Professor at CEU, a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Social and European Studies at Koszeg and a board member of Generation Europe Foundation in Brussels.
Petra Bárd is Researcher at the CEU Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine where she is participating in various European Union financed projects investigating the legal framework of biobanks. She is the Vice-Chairperson of the Hungarian Europe Society, and of Alpbach Hungary. She lectures EU-law and human rights related subjects at CEU and at the Ecole supérieure des sciences commerciales d'Angers (ESSCA). In her writings she primarily addresses European constitutionalism, human rights in the European Union, the rights of persons living with disabilities, and judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters. Petra Bárd is a CEU alumna; she received her LL.M. in international business law in 2001, and was awarded her S.J.D. in the field of comparative constitutional law in 2008.
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.
Permanent Fellow of Felix Meritis in Amsterdam. Beside CEU, teaching reglarly cultural policy graduate seminars and courses at Leiden University, Bologna University, Bilgi University Istanbul and University of Arts Belgrade. Initiator and Chair of the European Festivals Research Project. Writer, lecturer, researcher, advisor and frequent conference speaker, esp. on the contemporary performing, arts, cultural policy and international cultural cooperation. Author of several books, many articles and contributions to over 60 edited books.
Benjamin W. Cramer is Visiting Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Department of Legal Studies. He last worked at Pennsylvania State University, USA where he taught a senior-level course in mass media law and worked as a researcher for the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment. His doctoral dissertation dealt with government transparency and environmental law in the USA. He has also been noted for his research in telecommunications policy, political communications, intellectual property law, and media literacy. So far he has published three peer-reviewed articles in American legal research journals on government transparency and telecommunications policy, and has presented his research at eight academic conferences, two of which were internationally focused.
