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Languages Skills

English: excellent
German: excellent
Italian: good
Russian: basic

Key Qualifications/Expertise

• 28 years experience in agricultural and food policy analysis and advice, sector policy elaboration, privatisation and transformation of agriculture and food industry (participation in several PHARE projects in Hungary and internationally), preparation of sector, market and feasibility studies, strategic planning for companies
• a knowledge of Western as well as Central and East European food marketing systems; longer study tours to the USA, the UK, Austria, Germany and Japan
• a thorough knowledge of the dairy as well as the fruit and vegetable sectors both in Hungary and internationally
• project evaluation for the European Commission.

Professional Experience Record

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Hungarian Association of Agricultural Economists
• European Association of Agricultural Economists

Projects

Country: Hungary                                                                            Date: from 4/1992 to 11/1992       
Preparation of a dairy sector study for the Hungarian government financed from PHARE as a member of the Cowiconsult (Denmark) team (demand analysis, industry structure, industry coordination, pricing and subsidies, privatisation issues)

Country: Hungary                                                                            Date: from 3/1993 to 9/1993 
Preparation of model by-laws and a manual for the establishment , organization and management of dairy cooperatives in Hungary financed from PHARE as member of the NEI (The Netherlands) team

Country: Hungary                                                                            Date: from 3/1994 to 7/1994         
Evaluation of the PHARE 1990-1992 agricultural programmes for Hungary as member of the A.D.E.  (Belgium) team contracted by the European Commission

Country: Hungary                                                                            Date: from 7/1994 to 9/1994
Preparation of an agricultural and food sector study as part of a regional development plan for County Nógrád (contracted by the WIFO Institute, Vienna)

Country: Hungary                                                                            Date: from 10/1994 to 12/1994
Preparation of the Food and Agricultural Sector Appraisal for Hungary as member of the A.D.E. (Belgium) team contracted by the European Commission

Country: Hungary                                                                            Date: from 3/1995 to 5/1995         
National expert to the Country Study on Hungarian agriculture prepared by DG-VI of the European Commission

Country: Hungary                                                                            Date: from 1/1996 to 5/1996         
Evaluation of the PHARE 1990 program for assisting universities in Hungary as member of the A.D.E.  (Belgium) team contracted by the European Commission

Country: Hungary                                                                            Date: from 2/1997 to 9/1997           
National expert to the Country Study on Hungarian agriculture prepared by DG-VI of the European Commission

Country: Hungary                                                                            Date: from 11/1997 to 4/1998
Preparation of the study Competitiveness of Hungarian agriculture and consequences of EU-accession - The dairy sector

Country: Hungary                                                                            Date: from 11/1998 to 12/1998
Preparation of the study Impact assesment of the application of Council Directive 92/46/EEC - health rules, raw milk, treated milk and milk products, financed from PHARE, as a member of the Agrár Európa (Hungary) consulting team

Country: Hungary                                                                            Date: from 1/1999 to 5/1999
Evaluation of the PHARE financed agricultural programmes in the candidate member states as a member of the A.D.E. (Belgium) team contracted by the European Commission

Country: Hungary                                                                            Date: from 9/2000 to 5/2001
Preparation of the impact analysis of the EU-accession in the Hungarian dairy industry as a member of the Europrojekt (Austrian, Portuguese, Danish, Hungarian) consortium

Country: Hungary                                                                            Date:from 10/2001 to 7/2003
Interim evaluation of Phare programmes received by Hungary, as member of the EMS Consortium team (UK), for the European Commission

Country: Macedonia                                                                      Date:from 7/2005 to 1/2007
Agricultural markets key expert in the CARDS 2004 project Structural and legal reform of the Ministry of Agriculture, as member of the Agriconsulting (Italy) team; preparation of competitiveness studies for the fruit, vegetable, sheep and goat as well as organic products subsectors; preparation of subsector approximation strategies

Publications

About 30 conference papers
About 70 book chapters and articles in journals etc.

Selected titles:

• A small tiger or just a cat - The agriculture of Macedonia
  in: The Balkans and Hungary - changing foreign policy thinking?
  ed. Ferenc Glatz
  Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest 2007
• The second year in the European Union - Lessons from the Hungarian yíagricultural sector
  Paper presented at the international conference The impact of European integration on the national         economy  Cluj-Napoca October 2007
• The functional food market in Hungary
  Élelmezési Ipar 2004/4
• Multinational firm strategies in the CEE dairy industries
  Paper presented at the international conference Globalism, Globality and Globalisation   Cluj-Napoca October 2004
• Agricultural and food  trade in the border regions of Hungary
  Kopint-Datorg Budapest 2003
• Agricultural and food trade between the EU and Hungary in the nineties
  WIIW Hefte Wien November 2001
• FDI into the Hungarian food industry
  Research Institute for Agricultural Economics Budapest 2000

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