Budapest University of Economics and Business

I have been working at Budapest University of Economics and Business since 2009, I am currently an associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences, I worked previously at the Department of Tourism and at the Department of Foreign Languages for Business Communication. My main responsibilities and tasks are teaching and research. Currently I teach the following courses: (1) Intercultural Relations, (2) European programs and projects, (3) Intercultural management with focus on the Far-East. I am also participating as a researcher in the project Democratic Roles of Universities (DRU): Practicing Democratic Values in Science, Education, Civic Engagement and Governance (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101236527) in which our university is an associated partner.
I obtained my PhD degree at the University of Szeged in 2005, and I received several scholarships to carry our research in Latin America (Mexico and Argentina) during my PhD studies, and more recently a research grant of the Oriental Business Innovation Centre for a research and teaching mobility in Malaysia. I have been a member of the pool of experts at the Hungarian National Agency Tempus Public Foundation since 2012.
Since 2019, as a lecturer at the faculty, I have been coordinating Erasmus projects (KA103, KA107, KA171, KA2 strategic partnership projects) at the university and in 2021 I was nominated Faculty Head of International Affairs. In this role, my main responsibilities and tasks are: (1) Design and coordination of the implementation of the internationalisation strategy of the Faculty of International Business, in cooperation with the vice-rector of international affairs, the dean and vice-dean of the faculty, and with the international office; (2) Partnership development; (3) Coordination of student and staff mobility at the faculty;(4) Stimulation and overview of international projects at the faculty. I received the 3rd Prize for Internationalisation of Higher Education, awarded by our National Agency (Tempus Public foundation) in 2016, and I received the award Pro Facultate of my university in November 2024 for "an outstanding contribution over a long period of time to the efficient teaching and research work of the faculty, as well as for strengthening its reputation in Hungary and internationally”.