Mr. Gábor Balás
balasgabor@hetfa.hu

Economist, managing director of HETFA Research Institute and HETFA Center for Analyses. Previously as head of department at the Hungarian National Development Agency he was responsible for the evaluation of EU cohesion policy interventions in Hungary. His main fields of expertise are: effective use of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds, efficiency of governmental policies, effects of state regulations on cooperation among SMEs.

Dr. András Csite, PhD 
csiteandras@hetfa.hu

Economist and sociologist, managing director of the HETFA Research Institute and HETFA Center for Analyses. He was a research fellow at the Institute for Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest between 1994 and 2004. In 1997, he received the Academic Youth Award for his outstanding research activities. In 2000 the Hungarian Sociological Association awarded him with the Erdei Ferenc Medal. His main fields of expertise are: development policy, rural sociology, regional developments and elite studies. He is the author or co-author of more than 80 peer referred articles in the field of sociology.

Ms. Gabriella Borbás
borbasgabriella@hetfa.hu

Economist, senior consultant at the HETFA Center for Analyses. Previously she worked as head of cabinet at the Hungarian National Development Agency. Ms. Borbás participated in strategic decisions concerning the institution system and the implementation procedures of the Hungarian National Development Plan. In 2008 she was awarded with the certification of merit by the Hungarian National Development and Economic Minister. Her main fields of expertise are: modernizing public administration and efficient use of EU funds.

Dr. Nándor Németh, PhD
nemethnandor@hetfa.hu

Geographer, managing director of the Pannon.Analysing Office. Between 2003 and 2009 he was a research fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. He specialized in the differences of regional development and changes of the regional structure of Hungary. The main subjects of his PhD thesis are the social and economical impacts of the enlargement of the Hungarian motorway network.

Ms. Ágnes Szabó-Morvai
szabomorvaiagnes@hetfa.hu

Economist, senior expert at the HETFA Reseach Institute. Her fields of interest are financial markets, corporate finance and labor market issues. She is a PhD candidate in Economics at Central-European University (CEU). Her dissertation topic is the effect of childcare benefits on labor market activity. She teaches statistics, econometrics at CEU and corporate finance at Debrecen University. Previously, she worked in the credit risk modeling department of GE Money Bank, Hungary.

Mr. Boldizsár Megyesi – visiting fellow
megyesiboldizsar@hetfa.hu

Sociologist, senior expert and visiting fellow at the HETFA Research Institute. He works on rural research in Hungarian and European research projects at the Institute for Political Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He writes his PhD dissertation on institutions of rural development. His main interest is the long term effects of development policy on social and territorial inequalities. He participated in CORASON research (Cognitive Approach to Rural Sustainable Development EU – FP6), in the COFAMI research (Encouraging Collective Farmers’ Marketing Initiatives), which aimed to explore the limiting and enabling factors of such initiatives. Currently, he is participating in GILDED (Governance, Infrastructure, Lifestyle Dynamics and Energy Demand: European Post-Carbon Communities) project, researching households’ energy consumption. Most recently he has lead the Social Impact analysis for the FAWORIT Project (Researchers’ Night 2010, consortia lead by the BZAKA).

Dr. Károly Mike, PhD – visiting fellow
karoly.mike@uni-corvinus.hu

Economist, MSc in Economics (2002) and PhD in Economics (2010), Corvinus University of Budapest. Senior expert and visiting fellow at the HETFA Research Institute. Assistant professor at the Group for Public Economics and Law and Economics, Department of Public Policy and Management, Faculty of Economics, Budapest Corvinus University. Director of Széchenyi College for Advanced Studies. Editor of the journals Kommentár and Kormányzás, Közpénzügyek, Szabályozás (Governance, Public Finance, Regulation). He teaches and researches in new institutional economics, law and economics as well as public choice. His current research interests are the study of formal and informal institutions in the Hungarian economy, the political economy of EU, constitutional economics and competition policy.

Ms. Fruzsina Bognár
bognarfruzsina@hetfa.hu

Economist. As the colleague of HÉTFA Center for Analyses she has been involved in many researches. For instance, she participated in the evaluation of the employment effect of Cohesion Policy in Hungary, and she worked in the research studying the pressure groups of enterprises as a project leader. She graduated from Corvinus University of Budapest in 2009, at the Faculty of Economics, major in Market Analysis. Her main interests are institutional economics and industrial organizations.

Mr. Bálint Herczeg
herczegbalint@hetfa.hu

Economist and analyst at the HETFA Research Institute. He received his MSC in economics in 2005, and currently is a PhD student at the University of Debrecen. His fields of research are the monetary economics, effects of monetary policy and the channels of transmission, and the topic of his dissertation is the changes in the channels of monetary transmission. Previously, he taught courses of introductory micro-, macro- and international economics at the University of Debrecen.

Mr. Gergely Kabai
kabaigergely@hetfa.hu

Cultural anthropologist, ethnographer. Research assistant at Pannon.Analysing Office Ltd. since 2009. His main areas of interest are social sciences for rural uses and potential uses of the results of ethnography. As an ethnographer his prior field of studies has been the traditional agro-ethnographic disciplines (farming, producing crop, raising animals, etc.), their situation today, changes with using modern approaches and the methodology of cultural anthropology and sociology.

Mr. Gábor Kiss
kissgabor@hetfa.hu

Economist. He has been a co-worker at HETFA Center for Analyses since January 2010. Among others he contributed to studies dealing with the last year of Hungarian development policy. Graduated at the Corvinus University of Budapest, International Relations MA program with a major in European Studies. In his thesis he examined the governance structure of the IMF.

Ms. Alexandra Luksander
luksanderalexandra@hetfa.hu

Certified survey statistician and sociologist. She graduated from Eötvös Lóránd University of Budapest, at the Faculty of Survey Statistics (MSc), major in Market Research and Survey specialization in 2011. Her BA degree was acquiered in 2009 at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Sociology, with specialization in regional development.
As topic of her BA final exam she chose the analyses of personal and regional parameters' effect on subjective security; her MSc final exam was about the effect of interviewers' party prefernce on results of political surveys.
Her fields of interest are: applied statistics, multilevel models and the analysis of territorial differences.

Mr. Csaba Gábor Pogonyi
pogonyicsaba@hetfa.hu

Student of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He is studying Applied Economics at Faculty of Social Sciences. He is also a member of Rajk László College for Advanced Studies. Since March 2011, he has been the co-worker of HÉTFA Analysing Centre.

Ms. Márta Szentesi
szentesimarta@hetfa.hu

Student of College for Modern Business Studies. She has been working for HETFA Center for Analyses since 2010 January as an assistant.