Professor of International Relations, Central European University, Budapest
Bela Greskovits is Professor of Political Science at the Central European University where he teaches courses on the politics of development. He is author of The Political Economy of Protest and Patience. East European and Latin American Transformations Compared. Central European University Press 1998, and numerous articles and book chapters on the politics of economic reforms. His current research focus is the political economy of major industries. In 1998-99 he was holder of the Luigi Einaudi Chair at the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University. In 2003-04 he was Visiting Professor of Social Studies at Harvard University.
Professor at the International Relations and European Studies Department and at the Department of Political Science, International Faculty Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies
Education:
1996
PhD in Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Title of Doctoral Dissertation: "The Political Economy of Protest and Patience"
1980
University Doctorate at the Budapest University of Economics, in Economics, Title of Dissertation: "Organizational History of the Hungarian Textile Industry from the 1940s to the 1960s"
1977
MA, Budapest University of Economics, National Planning, Analysis, and Economic Policy
1973-77
Member of the László Rajk College of Advanced Studies at the Budapest University of Economics
1972-77
Full time undergraduate student at the Budapest University of Economics
Languages: native Hungarian, excellent English, excellent German, fair Polish, fair Russian
Work Experience:
1998/99
Holder of the Luigi Einaudi Chair in European and International Studies with
the Institute for European Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
1992-1999
Associate Professor, Central European University, Political Science
Department, Budapest
1992-1996
Deputy Head of Political Science Department
1996/97
Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of CEU, Warsaw College,
in joint appointment with CEU, Political Science Department, Budapest
1982-92
KOPINT-DATORG, Institute for Economic and Market Research and Informatics
1990-92
senior research fellow
1988-90
Head of Research Department
1982-88
research fellow
1977-82
Budapest University of Economics, assistant professor
Research and Professional Activity:
Fellowships:
2000
1-month research fellowship at the LASP of Université X-Nanterre
1998-99
Luigi Einaudi Chair, Cornell University, Institute for European Studies
1997-97
10-months associated fellowship at Collegium Budapest, Institute for
Advanced Study, member of the Focus Group "Interaction between Politics and
Economic Policy"
1995
1-month National Resource Center Visiting Scholar in the Institute for
European Studies, Cornell University
1992
6-months fellowship in the Economic Freedom Fellowship Program of the Pew
Charitable Trust, at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., including a 2
months internship in the Department of Macroeconomy and Growth of the World
Bank
1986
3-months Friedrich Ebert Stiftung fellowship in the Federal Republic of
Germany
Memberships:
2000-2001
Member of Regional Advisory Panel on Eurasia of the Social Science Resarch
Council (SSRC)
1997-1999
Member of the Committee on East European Studies (CEES) of the American
Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
1994-98
Member of the Coordination Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
Network on Social Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe