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Professor, vice head of department

Works at the University since 1986, head of the Department for Environmental Economics and Technology between 2002 and 2015. Holds degrees in economics and pedagogy of economics, has been active int he field of environmental economics since 1994.

Head of the Geopolitical Program of the Doctoral School of International Relations and Political Science.

Associate professor, responsible person for REE MA program

Holds degrees in regional and urban development and environmental geography (University of Szeged) and geographical information systems (Budapest University of Technology). Over the last ten years, he has been working as senior planner and head of office of VÁTI Ltd. for Regional and Urban Development; head of department at the Office for National Economic Planning and at the Research Institue for National Strategy. From 2000 onwards, he has been participating actively in spatial and strategic planning and development projects at the national and international level, notably as chief planner of the main planning documents governing the current EU programmeming period (Partnerhip Agreement,  National Development and Territorial Development Concept). He has been a university lecturer since 1999.

Department coordinator

She has been in our Institute since 2017. She is a cultural organizer and andragogue (ELTE).    

Graduated as a geographer (specialising in regional and urban development) and teacher of geography from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). Worked at ELTE’s department for Regional Geography from 1999 and was awarded a PhD there in social geography (focusing on urban issues). Joined the Department for Economic Geography at CUB in 2009.

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She graduated as a certified Geography-Biology teacher at Eötvös Loránd University. She holds lessons at the Corvinus University of Budapest Eceonomic Geography Department from 2010. From 2012 she participates in an OTKA research project of Corvinus University of Budapest in cooperation with several members of the Department. Currently she stands before a doctorate degree in Eötvös Loránd University in the field of social geography. In 2016 she became as an assistant professor at the Center of Economic Geography and Future Research at Corvinus Univesity of Budapest. She is a member of the Economic and Social Geography Section of Hungarian Geographic Society.

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Graduated as an economist in 1971 at the legal predecessor to Corvinus University, where he established the Department for Environmental Economics and Technology in 1989. He was the head of the Institute for Environmental Sciences until 2013. He co-founded the CEMS Environmental Challenge Interfaculty Group in 1996, which he chaired until 2009. He was awarded the DsC title in 2003, and an honorary doctorate from the Warsaw Economic University in 2012. Since 2013, he is the head of the Doctoral School for Management at the University of Kaposvár.

Dr. János B. Kocsis is associate professor in urban sociology in the Department of Geography, Geoeconomy and Sustainable Development at Corvinus University of Budapest and Vice President of the Hungarian Society for Urban Planning. He has a PhD from Eötvös Loránd University, a MA in Urban History from University of Leicester, a MA in Sociology from Eötvös Loránd University and a MSc in Electrical Engineering from Budapest University of Technology. He previously has held positions at Budapest University of Technology, Babeş-Bolyai University and Indiana University. His scholarship focuses on urban issues in Central Europe, including sprawl, polycentric development, governance, subcenters, gentrification and environmental concerns.

Between 1997 and 2009 he was the head of department. Previously, he worked as a biology-geography specialist at the Corvinus University of Budapest’s predecessor. He researched the lay of foundations of future study of territorial, settlement and macroecomic, environmental forecasts, development plans and strategies. His field is the economic and geography of natural resources, regional development, regional and environmental economics and international European development strategies and programs. He is retired.

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He graduated as a geographer with specialization on urban and regional development from Eötvös Loránd University in 2005. He earned his second degree at University of Szeged, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in 2014, with a specialization on international business and economy.

He started his career as a GIS-expert but he also gained professional experiences from the acaedmic sector as well. Later on, he was responsible for the preparation of several urban development programmes and strategies. Using his experience, he was involved in the planning of Territorial Operative Programme 2014-2020 in the fields of transport and urban renewal. In addition, he gained experience in financial and process management of URBACT and INTERREG Central Europe projects. He has been a university lecturer since 2005.

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Project colleague

PhD student in the field of strategic and future studies. He graduated as economist at Business and Management BA program (Business Communication specialization) and Business Development MSc program at Corvinus University of Budapest.

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Nuno Morgado is an Assistant Professor at Corvinus University since 2020 and an External Lecturer at Charles University, Prague, since 2013. He studied political science, international relations, strategic studies, and geopolitical studies at the University of Lisbon and Charles University. He has held fellowships at the University of Vienna, São Paulo University, MGIMO University, Comenius University in Bratislava, and Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies. Nuno Morgado is also a researcher at the Social Futuring Center and an external associate researcher at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2017, he received his doctoral degree in international relations from Charles University, with a thesis about Brazilian and Russian geostrategies in comparative perspective. Before enrolled in doctoral studies, Nuno Morgado was an aide to a Portuguese Artillery Colonel, and he served at the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Graduated at the legal predecessor of CUB in 2004 as an economist and teacher of economics (specialising in environmental management and EU integration) and obtained her PhD from CUB in 2012. Worked at the Environment Committee of the European Parliament in Brussels in 2005/6. She has been working at the University since 2006, participating in several sustainability-related research projects (serving as coordinator for two EU projects related to cleaner production) and teaching courses on environmental economics, management and policy (also in English).

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Project colleague.

PhD student. He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University in the field of geography, in the specialization of regional and settlement development. He obtained his master’s degree in 2017, his research topic was homeless people’s use of space in Budapest. He studies regional and environmental economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest where his research topic is homelessness from an economic and futures studies point of view. From 2017 he studies in the BCE Geopolitics doctoral program. His research theme is the potential roles of the Carpathian Basin and the Central European region in the changing multilateral global geopolitical space. Formerly, he has carried out professional work experience, currently a colleague of the National Strategy Research Institute. 

Doctoral student. His research interests include environmental economics and the role of private capital in financing sustainability and climate projects. He spent more than three decades as an engineer and later as an economist in the private and public sectors: in the venture capital and energy industry, then in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as an external expert in the European Commission’s Joint Research Center project. His consulting company develops Hungarian and international environmental investment projects with institutional and industrial partners. He holds a PhD from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and a Master of Public Administration (MBA) from Yale University, USA.

Doctoral student. She graduated from Eötvös Loránd University with a degree in geography, specializing in environmental geography. She completed her thesis on waste management. She received her MSc degree from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2015 with a Master’s degree in Regional and Environmental Economics, and her research topic was characterizing the global city. She started her PhD in 2017 in the PhD program in Geopolitics at Corvinus University of Budapest. Her research topic is energy efficient urban development, its climate policy, urbanization and livelihood aspects. Previously she has gained experience in project management, currently working as a senior researcher at the eNET Internet Research and Consulting Ltd., as well as in energy and environmental projects.

PhD student. She recieved master’s degree in Economics and Environmental Engineer at BGF College of Foreign Trade, at BKÁE International Relations and at the University of Óbuda. After 12 years of multinational corporate communications, she is currently working at the Humusz Alliance for nearly a decade, first as the Vice President, later as President, now as expert, on the topic of EU and domestic waste policy. From 2013 to 2015 she was a member of the Environmentally Friendly Product Evaluation and Qualification Committee, from 2013-2018 a member of the National Environmental Council. Currently, she deals with the coordination of sustainable development indicators of the Hungarian Statistical Office (KSH), the UN and EUROSTAT. Her field of research is the methods and indicators of waste prevention in EU and domestic policies, within the scope of the circular economy.

  First year doctoral student.  

Zoltán Megyesi is a PhD student. He holds an MA in Economics and a BA in Geography. His theses were the ethnic geography analysis of Caucasus and a comparative analysis of the socio-economic development of Romanian cities and towns inhabited by ethnic Hungarians. He has begun his studies in the Geopolitics subprogram of International Relations Multidisciplinary Doctoral School  in 2019. His research topic is the global geopolitical weight of the In-between European countries. Beside the PhD program, he is a Junior Researcher at the Research Institute for National Strategy.

Doctoral student. He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University with a degree in geography, specializing in regional and settlement development. He received his MA degree in Regional and Environmental Economics from the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2018, he did his thesis on Comparative analysis of economic development and planning strategies in the Carpathian Basin. In his TDK dissertation he examined the developmental factors of disadvantaged villages, focusing on the success factors and adaptability of well-functioning public employment practices. He started his PhD in 2019 in the PhD program in Geopolitics at Corvinus University of Budapest. His research topic is the socio-economic status of the Hungarian minorities living in the neighboring countries, their roles and positions in the geopolitical space. Previously, he has carried out professional work experience in regional development and was a Student Assistant at the Geo Institute. Currently he works as a researcher at the Research Institute for National Strategies.

First-year PhD student in the International Relations Doctoral School at the Corvinus University of Budapest at Geopolitics. His doctoral research investigates the geopolitical role of state-related companies in the Central-European region. Previously he graduated on bachelor as a geography-history teacher at Eötvös Loránd University. Later on, he got the master degree as a Geographer at Urban and Regional Development at ELTE in 2019. During his studies, he spent a year at the University of Groningen on Erasmus. His researches focus on the topics of sustainable transportation in Budapest and the dilemmas of renewable energy usage.  

Fanni Maráczi first year doctoral student, received her Bachelor’s degree in 2014 from Eötvös Loránd University in East Asian Languages and Cultures with the major of Chinese. Between 2012 and 2013 she spent a year in Nanjing, China with a scholarship of the Chinese and Hungarian governments. She graduated  from the joint master’s of Pázmány Péter Catholic University and Corvinus University of Budapest in East Asian Studies. The subject of her thesis was HIV/AIDS and Politics in China. The school year of 2016/17 she spent in Bali, Indonesia learning Indonesian language with the help of an Indonesian government scholarship called Darmasiswa. In 2018 Fanni spent four months conducting research at Fudan University, Shanghai. Her research topic is Taiwan’s Geopolitical Significance for Mainland China. In addition to her studies she works as a Chinese interpreter.  

Third year student.

First year student.