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.
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.
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.
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.
Márton is a PhD candidate at the International Relations and European Studies Department of Central European University. In the course of his doctoral research, Márton studies cosmopolitan theories and the notion of trasncendence of national citizenship in the light of the case of Roma, an allegedly non-territorial nation.
Márton holds an MA of International Relations and Economics (Budapest University of Economic Sciences) and a DEA of Relations Internationales (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris). He has been a visiting fellow at the Sociology Department of Yale University, the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, and the Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Márton's research interests include: theories of cosmopolitan democracy, global civil society, transnational social movements, international politics of multiculturalism, the Romani movement.
Daniel is a PhD student of Political Scinece at Central European University in Budapest and a junior fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the effectiveness and inequality of education, and the political economy of education. He has published in English in Educational Research and Evaluation and in Prospects, and also in several Hungarian publications such as the Education in Hungary 2006.
