CV - Kálmán Judit Olga

Higher education qualifications

• 1997 - 2008
  Central European University, Political Science PhD (PhD/DLA képzés)
• 1999 - 2000
  Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, NY, USA, Executive Education in Public Policy (MSc/MA)
• 1990 - 1995
  Corvinus University Budapest, Economics (MSc/MA)
• 1993 -
  Aston University, Birmingham, UK, Public Policy Studies (egyetemi)

Scientific degrees and awards

• 2008, PhD
  Central European University

Workplaces

• 1994 - 1996
  Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest Hungary, Research Fellow
• 1996 - 1997
  Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary & The Urban Institute , Municipal Finance Specialist – Program Managerof UI/USAID Technical Assistance for Strengthening Municipalities in Hungary
• 2001 - 2002
  Open Society Institute/Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative , Policy Research Fellow
• 1998 - 2007
  Central European University, PhD Dissertation Research (interrupted with maternity leave 2 times)
• 2009 - 2009
  Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, Hungary, Research Fellow – Post Doc Researcher
• 2009 - 2024
  Center for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Institute of Economics,, Research Fellow
• 2018 -
  Corvinus University Budapest, Assistant Professor

Important study tours, delegacies

• 2021, 6 months
  University of California Berkeley, USA
• 2016, 1 month
  KU Leuven, Belgium
• 2017, 1 month
  GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences - Cologne, Germany

Awards, titles, honors

• 2022, Global Teaching Fellowship
  CERGE EI
• 2021, Fulbright Visiting Scholar
  Fulbright Commission, Hungary
• 2019, Global Teaching Fellowship
  CERGE EI

Major research projects

• 2023 - , WISER: Well-being in a Sustainable Economy Revisited
  Form of participation: member of the research team
  Moneylender: HORIZON EU
  Further info about research:
  
• 2021 - 2025, COST action ‘ Intergovernmental Coordination from Local to European Governance
  Form of participation: member of the research team
  Moneylender: COST EU
  Further info about research: Management Committee Member for Hungary
  
• 2019 - 2023, COST action 'The geography of New Working Spaces and the socio-economic impact on the periphery'
  Form of participation: member of the research team
  Moneylender: COST EU
  Further info about research: Management Committee Member for Hungary
  
• 2023 - 2024, Motivation for volunteering and to help to solve crises in V4 countries
  Form of participation: member of the research team
  Moneylender: International Visegrad Fund
  Further info about research: Leader of HU research
  
• 2017 - 2019, Membership Research Grant
  Form of participation: leader of the research team
  Moneylender: Regional Studies Association
  Further info about research:
  
• 2014 - 2015, Leadership in Urban and Regional Development
  Form of participation: member of the research team
  Moneylender: International Visegrad Fund
  Further info about research:
  
• 2020 - 2024, Munkanélküliek vállalkozóvá válásának támogatása: Hatékonyság, heterogenitás és holtteher-veszteség
  Form of participation: member of the research team
  Moneylender: NKFI
  Further info about research:
  
• 2024 - , INNOWELFARE: innovációk a közép- és kelet-európai jóléti reformok kutatásában
  Form of participation: member of the research team
  Moneylender: NKFI
  Further info about research:
  

Membership in scientific or professional bodies/organizations

• 2012 - , , member
  Regional Studies Association , international
• 2021 - , , member
  Council for European Studies, international
• 2024 - , , member
  EGPA, international
• 2022 - , , member
  Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), international
• 2015 - , , member
  Magyar Közgazdaságtudományi Egyesület, national
• 2013 - 2019, , member
  ISNIE - International Society for New Institutional Economics , international
• 2017 - 2023, , member
  Network for European Social Policy Analysis, international

Board memberships and positions

• 2025 - 2025, Managing Editor - Acta Oeconomica, editor-in-chief, member of the editorial team
  Foreign language

Expert consultancy activities

• 2025 -
  ESPON EU , ’The Urban dimension of EU Cohesion Policy’
• 2024 - 2024
  European Commission, Joint Research Center , Local government finances
• 2019 - 2019
  OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, Decentralisation, public investment and subnational finance Unit , ’Strengthening administrative capacities for the use of EU funds post-2020
• 2018 -
  European Commission, Research Executive Agency, , External Evaluator for H2020, HORIZON, ERASMUS program calls
• 2013 - 2013
  Budapest Institute - for National Development Agency, Hungary, Evaluation of EU Structural Funds grants oriented towards the least developed, most backward micro-regions of Hungary

• MTMT

Location at the university

• Building: C building (Közraktár u. 4-6.)
  Room number: 536
  Extension:
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  Fax:
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