In parallel with his government and diplomatic career Prof. Balázs has been dealing with research and teaching since more than three decades. He is a ScD of the Hungarian Academy of Science. He was nominated Professor of the Corvinus University in 2000 and joined CEU as a full time Professor in 2005. Prof. Balázs served as a State Secretary for Industry and Trade (1992-1993) and a State Secretary for European Integration (2002-2003). He was Ambassador of Hungary in Denmark, Germany and at the EU in Brussels. He was also the Government Representative of Hungary in the European Convention. In 2004 he was nominated the first Hungarian Member of the European Commission responsible for regional policy. Currently Prof. Balazs is on academic leave serving as the Foreign Minister of Hungary.
Elena B. Stavrevska is a PhD Candidate at the CEU Department of International Relations and European Studies, where she also earned her M.A. degree with a final thesis entiteled "EU Intelligence-Sharing: The British Quid Pro Quo?" Her current research focuses on the durability of liberal democratic peace processes in post-conflict societies following a major multilateral peacebuilding mission, shedding light on the impact of the level of local decision-making autonomy and grassroots peacebuilding activities. The title of her project is "Peacebuilding Missions' Impact on Liberal Democratic Peace Durability: What Role for Decision-Making Autonomy and Grassroots Peacebuilding?" The project is supervised by Professor Michael Merlingen and Professor John Shattuck.
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.
John S. Earle is Professor of Economics at CEU and Senior Economist at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. He has taught at CEU every year since the founding of the Economics Department in 1991, and has served as department head (1993-1995) and director of the PhD program (2003-2006). In 1994, he set up the CEU Labor Project as an externally funded unit of the university to promote research on labor economics and other applied microeconomic issues, with particular focus on the transition in CEU's regional neighborhood. The Project has produced more than 30 publications in academic journals, trained many MA and PhD students over the years, and collaborated on projects ranging from the World Bank, USAID, EU Frameworks, COST, and OECD to several governments of the region.
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.
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.
PhD Student in Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest. MA in International Relations and Contemporary Political Theory, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster, London.
Diploma in Sociology and Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Prishtina, Prishtinë.
Andrej Nosko, PhD student at Political Science Department, researches coping strategies of small, open, transitional economies of Central Europe with their energy import dependence. His theoretical focus is on issues of energy, security, and government-corporate relations. Andrej's experience developed while living in 6 countries, and besides academia, working in private, NGO as well as governmental sectors. Before returning to CEU, Andrej worked for the European Commission in Brussels in the field of internal security.
Marie-Pierre Granger received a PhD in Law from the University of Exeter (UK) in 2001. She joined CEU in 2004. Her teaching and research interests include the legal and political aspects of European integration, judicial process, comparative public law, environmental and social law and policy. On maternity leave from April 2009 until March 2010.
