Tamás Szigetvári
Personal details
Date of birth: 1972
Place of birth: Budapest
Phone: +36304743328
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Fields of research
Economic development in the MENA region
Neighbourhood policy of the EU
Turkey (EU relations, economic development)
Economic development in Italy
Economic development in the Caucasian countries
Infrastructure, services
Regional development in Hungary
Education and degrees
1996-2002 Budapest University of Economic Sciences, PhD in International Relations
1993-1994 Habib Boughiba Institute, Tunis, Certificate in "Arab language and civilisation"
1990-1996 Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Faculty of International Relations, MSc in Economics
Work experience
2010- Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Institute for International and Political Studies, associate professor (Chair of Economic Department)
1996- Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research fellow
2002-2010 Budapest Business School, senior lecturer/associate professor
1999-2000 Visiting research fellow, German Orient Institute, Hamburg
Language skills
English, German – advanced
French, Italian – intermediate
Arabic, Russian, Turkish – basic
Selected publications
Szigetvári, T. (ed.), The European Union's Eastern Partnership: Experiences, Efforts and Expectations.East European Studies Series, No. 3, 2011, IWE, Budapest:, p. 113
"Strong Europe with a Human Touch" - Erwartungen an die erste ungarische Ratspräsidentschaft, (with Gábor Túry, Krisztina Vida) integration, 1/2011, pp. 378-383.
Slovakia, in: Krisztina Vida (ed.): Th impact of the 10 New Member States on EU decision making. The Experience of the first years. FEPS - IWE, Budapest, 2010, pp. 87-96., http://www.feps-europe.eu/fileadmin/downloads/framingeurope/1008_FEPS_IWE_NewEUMS.pdf
The European Neighbourhood Policy. Concept, practice, future and the priorities of Hungary, in: Attila Ágh - Judit Kiss-Varga (eds.): The global crisis and the EU respenses. The perspectives of the SBH team presidency, 'Together for Europe' Research Centre, Budapest, 2009, pp. 157-174.
Hungarian economic relations with the Arab world, Hungarian Statistical Review, Special number 11, 2007, pp. 117-135.
Competition and Finance in Italian Road Infrastructure, Fejlesztés és Finanszírozás (Development and Finance), 2007/1., pp. 50-60.
The state of infrastructural development in Hungary 1990-2002 (szerk. és társszerző: Ehrlich Éva), MEH, Budapest, 2006, p. 201
Transformación y desarrollo regional en Hungría: hechos, tendencias, dilemas y objetivos. In: Dimensiones del desarrollo regional ed. López, Carlos Riojas y Scott, James W. La Colección de Babel No 31. Primavera 2004 Revista Universidad de Guadalajara (with Éva Ehrlich ), pp. 113-128.
Finanzierungsprobleme der Verkehrsinfrastrukturentwicklung in Polen, Tschechien und Ungarn, Wolfgang Gerstenberger (ed.): Vor dem EU-Beitritt - Tendenzen und Perspektiven des Strukturwandels und der Migration in Zentraleuropa, Dresden, 2002, pp. 65-72.
Regional Development in Hungary, in: Grzegorz Gorzelak - Éva Ehrlich - Lubomir Faltan - Michal Illner (szerk.): Central Europe in Transition: Towards EU Membership, Regional Studies Ass., Polish Section, Warsawa, 2001, pp. 287-309.