TÖRÖK, Ádám

Secretary-General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 

Ádám Török is the Secretary-General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Professor of Economics, University of Pannonia (Veszprém) and Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and also a recurrent Visiting Professor at the CEU Economics Department, Budapest. Head of MTA-PE Networked Research Group on Regional Innovation and Development Studies (2007-2014). Chair of the Editorial Board of Acta Oeconomica since 2012 (Editor-in-Chief between 2000 and 2011). MA in International Trade and International Economics, Karl Marx (Budapest) University of Economics (1976); Diplôme d’Études Supérieures Européennes, University of Nancy II, France (Centre Européen Universitaire, 1981); Candidate of Economics (PhD) in International Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1986); University habilitation at the Janus Pannonius University, Pécs (1996). Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 2001). Head of the Section Economic and Legal Sciences between 2004 and 2011, Member of the Board of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2008. Vice-President of the Hungarian Economic Association (since 1999); Member of the Fiscal Council of Hungary (2009-2010). Publications: more than 140 studies on Stabilisation Policies, Hungarian and International Trade, Industrial Policy, Innovation, Research and Development, Fiscal Policy and Competition Policy (36 written in English, German, Spanish or French), including 31 book chapters. Six books published in Hungarian and four (two with co-authors) in English.

 

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15:00-16:30 4 NOVEMBER
SPECIAL SIDE EVENT: ROLE OF SCIENCE IN ADDRESSING CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL MIGRATION