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Bodor András
Bodor András jelenleg a Georgetown Egyetem közgazdaságtan Ph.D.
programjának hallgatójaként folytat kutatásokat a
nyugdíjközgazdaságtan területén, egyben a Világbank tanácsadójaként is
tevékenykedik nyugdíj- és munkaerőpiaci reformokprojekteket és
kutatásokat támogatandó.
Kutatási területei között a nyugdíjrendszer működési mechanizmusai,
illetve a munkaerőpiac közötti összefüggéseket elemzi különös
tekintettel az informális gazdaságban való részvétel vonatkozásaira.
Ugyancsak a szakterületei közé tartozik az állami felosztó-kirovó
nyugdíjrendszerek fenntartható belső megtérülési rátájának a
meghatározása, valamint a nyugdíjreform átmenetek transzparens
pénzügyi menedzsmentje a tranzíciós költségek minimalizálása mellett.
Bodor 1999 és 2002 között az Ifjúsági és Sportminisztériumnak előbb
helyettes államtitkára, majd közigazgatási államtitkára volt.
Szakmai affiliációi között megemlítendő, hogy tagja a Washingtonban
élő magyar közgazdászokat tömörítő HunEx-Econ szellemi műhelynek.
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Csaba Fehér
Csaba Fehér is a senior economist at the Europe and Central Asia, Human Development unit (ECSHD) of the World Bank. His areas of expertise include the operation and reform of public and private pension schemes, capital market regulations for pension insurance and pension savings, disability insurance and labour market instruments. Between 1998 and 2003 he was the Managing Director of the Hungarian Private Pensions Guarantee Fund. Prior to that, he worked as Programme Manager at the International Finance Corporation and as pension economist at the World Bank's Resident Mission in Hungary. As a consultant to the World Bank and other development agencies, he also advised various governments on pension policy issues. He studied at the Budapest University of Economics, the London School of Economics and the Law School of the Pécs University.
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Attila Juhász
Attila Juhász is a senior investment officer at the World Bank Treasury. He is responsible for managing the internal and external funds of the World Bank.
Prior to joining the World Bank in 2006, he worked for the National Bank of Hungary as portfolio manager in the reserve management department, and he was responsible for managing the Euro Investment portfolio.
Mr. Juhász received M.Sc degrees in Economics from the Budapest University of Economics Sciences, and he is a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charterholder.
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Sándor Karácsony
Sándor Karácsony works as a senior advisor at the World Bank Board, delegated by and representing the Hungarian Ministry of Finance. His area of expertise cover Bank operations in Central America and the Caribbean, as well as multilateral investment guarantees and energy sector operations. Prior to his current position, Sándor held various posts in the Ministry of Finance and the Prime Minister's Office in Hungary between 2002 and 2004. He gained investment banking experience as well (mainly in energy sector M&A transactions) when working at CA IB Corporate Finance Ltd in 2005. He holds and MSc in economy, and a law degree.
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Zsuzsa Kádár
Zsuzsanna is a senior manager at Ernst & Young LLP, in the Capital Markets group in the National Office of E&Y in Washington, DC. She is specialized in the taxation of derivative financial instruments, international financing transactions, cross-border mergers and acquisitions and foreign currency transactions. Prior to moving to Washington she has worked in the New York office of Ernst & Young in the International Tax Services group.
Zsuzsanna is a frequent contributor to Tax Notes International, International Tax Review as well as International Financial Law Review and International Securitization Review. She has also been participating as a tax expert in international tax projects of the IMF.
Zsuzsanna has an M.A. in economics from the Budapest University of Economics, a doctorate in law from the ELTE School of Law (Hungary) and an L.L.M. in taxation from New York University. Zsuzsanna is currently finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
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Ádám Kóbor
Ádám Kóbor is a senior investment officer at the World Bank Treasury. He is primarily responsible for strategic asset allocation and risk budgeting, and actively participates in the technical advisory program related to central bank reserves management by organizing and presenting at workshops and advising on-site.
Prior to joining the World Bank in 2001, he worked for the National Bank of Hungary as a risk analyst. He worked on the revision of the investment policy, as well as developed risk reports for the foreign exchange reserves portfolio.
Mr. Kóbor holds a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration (currently: Corvinus University), and he is a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charterholder. He is author and co-author of several publications and speaks at conferences. Mr. Kóbor is an active member of the HunEx-Econ Group in Washington.
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Zsolt Macskási
Zsolt Macskási has research and consulting experience in applied microeconomics, industrial organization, and applied econometrics. Currently, he is a Senior Consultant at Bates White LLC, an economic consulting firm in Washington DC. He has received M.Sc degrees in Economics from the Budapest University of Economics Sciences and from the Universite Paris II in France. He has received his Ph.D degree in Economics from Northwestern University in 2004. His prior work experience includes the Institute of Economics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the ABN-Amro Bank Hungary.
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Sándor Sipos
Sándor Sipos is Sector Manager for Social Protection and Labor at the Human Development Network of the World Bank. He is responsible for overseeing strategy development, business incubation, capacity development and knowledge management in social protection worldwide in the Bank's core competency areas: pensions, labor markets, social insurance and social risk management, social safety nets, family benefits, disability and social funds/community driven development (CDD), as well as professional development of the Bank's 135 social protection staff through the Bank's Social Protection Sector Board of which he is a member. Previously, he worked on supporting governments during the transition in Central and Eastern Europe, in World Bank's operations, including serving as Head of the World Bank Group's Office in Zagreb, Croatia (1997-2001). Prior to joining the Bank in 1992, he advised UNICEF on its engagement in operations in Central and Eastern Europe (1990-92) at UNICEF's Innocenti Center in Florence, Italy. He was a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK (1988-89) and worked for the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1981-90) in Budapest. He has published mainly on social policy and international economics (see publications attached). He holds a doctorate in international economics from the Budapest University of Economics (1984), where he graduated in 1981. [Publications]
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Roland Straub
Roland Straub is an Economist in the Asia and Pacific Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Previously, he worked at the Research Department of the European Central Bank (ECB) on the development of the New Area Wide Model (NAWM). He was a visiting fellow at the University of California, Davis, and research visitor at the Bank of England and Magyar Nemzeti Bank. His main area of research deals with the development of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models, the macroeconomics effects of fiscal policy, the interaction between asset-market participation and monetary policy, and international economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence/ Italy.
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István Székely
István Székely is Deputy Division Chief of the European I Department, Central European II Division at the International Monetary Fund. You can find his resume and list of publication on his own Website.
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Előd Takáts
Előd Takats is an Economist at the International Monetary Fund. He participates in the Economist Program and works in the South/Central American II Division of the Western Hemisphere Department. In particular, he focuses on the developments of the Bahamas and Panama. He received his PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 2006. His research focuses on corporate finance, international finance and incentive theory. His job market paper, A Theory of Crying Wolf: The Economics of Money Laundering Enforcement, analyzed how excessive reporting might dilute the information value of the reports through the example of the United States' anti-money laundering regime. During his PhD studies he visited the European Central Bank, the Central Bank of Hungary and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He worked in banking for a few years in Hungary for corporations such as CIB Bank and ABN-AMRO Equities, and also participated in the reorganization of Postabank. He studied in Hungary at the Budapest University of Economics (M.Sc 1999), the Invisible College (1999) and at the Central European University (M.Phil 2002).
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Edit V. Velényi
Edit V. Velényi has been a consultant with the Africa Region's Human Development Technical Unit, and formerly with the Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) Sector Hub of the World Bank. Her work has focused on various aspects of sustainable health care financing. Prior to her career at the World Bank, she worked for the Governments of the United States (2001-02) and of Hungary (1995-1998), with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of Hungary in Washington, and the Ministry of Defence in Budapest.
She has an M.A. with a concentration in International Economics and Law from the School of Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C., and a Master's degree from the University of Economics, Budapest, Hungary. Ms. Velényi is now a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, England. She is a research student at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE); a member of its Health Policy Team; and affiliated with its Health Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) through her doctoral thesis.
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Sándor Végh
Sándor Végh received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland in 2003. His dissertation focused on Internet policies and politics, especially on the democratizing potentials of the Internet, as well as online political activism and its media representations. He holds an M.A. in English (American Studies), a B.S. in Mathematics, and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Debrecen, Hungary. He studied in the United States on a Fulbright scholarship (1997-2002), and currently works as a consultant for the World Bank.
He is active in the Hungarian cultural scene in the Washington area. He was co-founder of the Kossuth House Social Club in 1997, and the HungarianAmerica Foundation in 2003 of which he is currently the president.
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