regional development

Graduated form the University of East Anglia in England, the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo in Canada. Since 1990 he has worked in Krakow; one of the founders and the first director of the Cracow Forum for Development – a partnership initiative launched in 1995 by business, university and local government leaders, and social organizations for the development of Krakow. Since 1996 he has been Head of the Polish Environmental Partnership Foundation board – an independent and self-governing foundation, which supports sustainable development at the local level.

Research fellow in the Institute of Economics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (agricultural and rural policy group). 1996-1997 visiting researcher at the Centre for the Study of Democracy in the Institute of Westminster, London. Main fields of interest: recent economic and social transition in Hungary, changes of labour market, small-scale agriculture and the coping strategies of former industrial commuters in disadvantaged rural areas.