Faculty and Staff

Thilo Bodenstein holds a Dr in Comparative Political Science and International Relations from the University of Konstanz (Germany). He joined the Department of Public Policy in 2009. His research includes international political economy and international development.

Andrew Cartwright works at the Center for Policy Studies.  His research concentrates on social and econonomic development in rural areas, especially former socialist ones.  His PhD was on implementing land reform in Romania.  At the DPP, he teaches Rural Development Policy and runs the Policy Labs course.

Benjamin W. Cramer is Visiting Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Department of Legal Studies. He last worked at Pennsylvania State University, USA where he taught a senior-level course in mass media law and worked as a researcher for the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment. His doctoral dissertation dealt with government transparency and environmental law in the USA. He has also been noted for his research in telecommunications policy, political communications, intellectual property law, and media literacy. So far he has published three peer-reviewed articles in American legal research journals on government transparency and telecommunications policy, and has presented his research at eight academic conferences, two of which were internationally focused.

Alex Fischer served as full-time faculty member at the Department of Public Policy from 2005 until 2007. Currently he works as a political advisor for  WWF Switzerland  and in addition, he kept his affiliation with CEU as Associate Professor.

Prior to joining CEU, Andreas Goldthau worked as a Transatlantic PostDoc Fellow in International Relations and Security with the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, the RAND Corporation and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), as well as a Research Fellow with the Institute for East European Studies at Freie University of Berlin. He is also a Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute (Berlin/Geneva)

Karoly (Charles Jokay) is a municipal finance and creditworthiness specialist with extensive experience in Central and Eastern European countries, including Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, Macedonia and Romania, and recently (2009), India, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.   Having served for two years as the Municipal Capital Markets Development Advisor to the Ministry of Interior and to the Ministry of Finance in Hungary, he has extensive regional experience in policy reform, municipal finance and budgeting, utility infrastructure, and information marketing and dissemination to municipalities. His firm, IGE Consulting Limited (www.ige.hu), established in 1996, provides municipal finance and development consulting to international donors and to Hungarian municipalities.

Achim Kemmerling holds a PhD in Political Science from Free University Berlin. Before coming to CEU he worked at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), the Jacobs University Bremen and the Hertie School of Governance Berlin. His research interests include the political economy of social and labour market policies, taxation and development.

Permanent Fellow of Felix Meritis in Amsterdam. Beside CEU, teaching reglarly cultural policy graduate seminars and courses at Leiden University, Bologna University, Bilgi University Istanbul and University of Arts Belgrade.  Initiator and Chair of the European Festivals Research Project. Writer, lecturer, researcher, advisor and frequent conference speaker, esp. on the contemporary performing, arts, cultural policy and international cultural cooperation. Author of several books, many articles and contributions to over 60 edited books.

Renata is Probationary Doctoral Candidate at Political Science Department, Public Policy track. She received her first MA in Psychology from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her second MA was awarded by CEU in 2003 where she studied at Department of International Relations and European Studies. Her research interest concerns the higher education policy. Renata has over 10 years of experience in this area first as student leader and later as civil servant and in recent years as analyst in Slovak Governance Institute with which she is affiliated also during her studies. She has published dozens of articles in Slovak media on the topic of higher education and was very active in advocacy in regard to higher education issues.

Marvin Lazerson is professor of higher education policy in the Department of Public Policy, Central European University and professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania.  He holds A.B. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University in New York City and a PhD in history from Harvard University.  He is a widely published scholar in the ares of educational history, higher education, and social policy.  A member of the National Academy of Education (U.S.), he is past president of the History of Education Society.  He has taught at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of British Columbia, as well as the Penn, where he also served as dean of the Graduate School of Education and the university's interim provost.  In addition to teaching at CEU, he coordinates the higher education policy stream in the Department of Public Policy.

Kalman Mizsei holds a PhD from the Budapest University of Economics. He is currently the European Union Special Representative for Moldova.  Previosuly he served as UNDP Regional Director for Europe anad the CIS. At the CEU Department of Public Policy he teaches Globalization and Global Governance

Andreea Nastase is a PhD candidate at CEU's Department of Public Policy, researching public office ethics in the European civil service. Her dissertation project is entitled "Administrative ethics in the European Commission: national traditions, individual attitudes and organizational processes", and is supervised by Dr. Agnes Batory. Andreea also teaches an introductory course in public policy and public administration at CEU's Roma Access Program. Before enrolling in the PhD program, she worked as a project officer for Transparency International Romania. Andreea holds an MA in Public Policy from CEU (2006) and a BA in Political Science from the University of Bucharest, Romania.

Cynthia received the terminal degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University's School of the Arts, where she specialized in nonfiction writing. Her current writing and research interests include curriculum design, biographies of place, oral history as an agent of social change, teaching writing through local history, collective memory in individual & national identity development, and politics of knowledge in policy-making. Prior to joining CEU's faculty in 2009, Cynthia taught university writing at Columbia University.
 

Uwe Puetter is Professor at the Department of Public Policy. From 2006 to 2008 he served as the Department's first Head. Originally he had joined Central European University in September 2004 as an Assistant Professor of the newly created Master's Program in Public Policy (MPP). In the context of the degree programs of the Department Uwe Puetter is teaching courses on European integration, comparative politics and socio-economic governance.

Eniko is a probationary PhD student in DPP. She earned a BA from Middlebury College (2002) in Political Science and Spanish, and an MSc from the London School of Economics (2006) in Comparative Politics. Eniko has served as a Junior Professional at the World Bank, in the area of public administration reform and anti-corruption in Latin America. She has also worked for the European Commission, in DG Development and for the EC Delegation to Nigeria. More recently, she observed elections in Ghana and Ecuador for the Carter Center and the EU. For her dissertation, she plans to study the relationship between externally-regulated anti-corruption commissions, donor agencies and local politics in Africa. Her broader research interests include the politics of foreign aid and EU development policy.

Diane Stone was founding director of the CEU's Master's Program in Public Policy (MPP) in 2004 introducing 'global public policy' as a core theme.  From 2004 to 2008, she held a European Commission Framework 6 Award and was Marie Curie Chair in the Center for Policy Studies.  universities.