Speakers
Prof. Iain Begg
Iain Begg is a Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. His main research work is on the political economy of European integration and EU economic governance. He has directed and participated in a series of research projects on different facets of EU policy and his current projects include studies on the governance of EU economic and social policy, the EU's Lisbon strategy, and reform of the EU budget. Other recent research projects include work on policy co-ordination under EMU and cohesion policy, and the social impact of globalisation.
He has published extensively in academic journals and served as co-editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies, the leading academic journal focusing on the study of European integration, from 1998 to 2003. He has undertaken a number of advisory roles, including being a member of a groupe de prospective on the future of cohesion policy, a member of the Research Committee of the Czech National Bank, and being called as an expert witness on EU issues by the House of Commons Treasury Committee, the House of Lords European Communities Committee and the European Parliament. He is a frequent contributor to international conferences on EU economic policy issues and is regularly solicited for interviews by journalists. Prof. Alain Chenu Alain Chenu, Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris, is the director of the CDSP (Center for Social and Political Data). CDSP is part of the French Data Archive Network ¿Réseau Quetelet¿ and of the European infrastructure CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives).
His main research interests are in comparative trends in the use of time, the role of mass media in the social construction of celebrity, and the history of survey methods. His most recent works include Sociologie des employés (Paris, La Découverte, 2005), "Time Use Surveys: a Review of their Aims, Methods, and Results", European Journal of Sociology, 47(3), 2006 (with Laurent Lesnard), "From paths of glory to celebrity boulevards: Sociology of Paris Match covers, 1949-2005", Revue française de sociologie, 49(1), 2008. Prof. Marcel Das Marcel Das holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Tilburg University (1998). In 2000, he became the director of CentERdata, a survey research institute specialized in web-based surveys and applied economic research, housed at the campus of Tilburg University. As a director of CentERdata he has managed a large number of national and international research projects. He coordinates the central development of survey instruments for the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and he is one of the principal investigators of the Dutch MESS project for which CentERdata received major funding from the Dutch Government. Since February 2009, Das is Professor of Econometrics and data collection at the Department of Econometrics and Operations Research of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Tilburg University. He has published a number of scientific publications in international peer reviewed journals in the field of statistical and empirical analysis of survey data and methodological issues in web-based (panel) surveys. His current research interests include design issues in web-based interviewing and methods and techniques of online questionnaires. Prof. Patrick Dunleavy Patrick Dunleavy is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating in 1973. He moved to Nuffield College, Oxford to work on his D.Phil (published as The Politics of Mass Housing in Britain, 1945-75) until 1978. He became a Junior Research Fellow at Nuffield in 1976. He moved briefly to the Open University as Lecturer in Urban Studies (1978-9) before joining LSE as a Lecturer. He was promoted successively to Reader in 1986 and Professor in 1989. Subsequently he founded LSE Public Policy Group in 1992. He became a (founding) member of the Academy of the Social Sciences in 1999. His main research interests include public choice theory; electoral systems; voting behaviour and party competition; bureau shaping and bureaucracy; government structures and institutional analysis; executive budgeting; new public management and globalization; urban politics; political sociology. Prof. Dunleavy published on these topics in several journals. He is also the author of international books such as Digital ERA Governance: IT Cooperations, the State and e-Governement (Oxford University Press) and he¿s alos the author of several reports for the UK National Audit Office. Prof. Bernhard Ebbinghaus Bernhard Ebbinghaus is Professor of Sociology at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Since 2008 he is Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), the largest university research institute in social sciences in Germany. Since 2006, Ebbinghaus is co-director of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim. Ebbinghaus is author of Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA (Oxford UP 2006), editor of Varieties of Pension Governance (Oxford UP 2010), and co-author (with Jelle Visser) of Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945 (Macmillan, 2000). His research interests include European labour relations and organized interests as well as comparative social policy, in particular pension policy, minimum income systems and labour market policies. He currently leads a project on the Governance of Supplementary Pensions in Europe funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and on Minimum Income Systems in Europe funded by the German Hans-Böckler Foundation at MZES.
Prof. Sophia Howlett Dr Howlett received her first degree from Cambridge and her DPhil from York. She has taught in the UK, Ukraine and Russia (as part of a sabbatical programme), before moving to CEU in 1997 as the head of a newly established office to promote CEU¿s external activities in international higher education development: complimenting the higher education activities of CEU¿s sister institution, Open Society Institute. Under her leadership, the office has developed into a department providing grants, training, consultancy and policy thinking to more than 1000 higher education practitioners and institutions a year and is now a Carnegie Institutional Leader in Teaching and Learning.
Dr Howlett regularly provides such services in higher education policy for Open Society Institute, World Bank projects, the Institute for International Education, Academic Training Association, Amideast etc. She has served on the Board of Civic Education Project, a large variety of OSI boards and committees focusing on Higher Education, as founder and Chair of the Board for an NGO to develop Central Asian higher education, as well as for new Middle East initiatives, Goldman Sachs, Rolex Young Laureates Programme etc. She has also recently focused on social equality issues in higher education, including initiating and running the only graduate ¿access¿ project for Roma.
Her most recent works were policy studies: ¿The Bologna Process in the former Soviet Union¿ (as an International Policy Fellow) and ¿The State of the Doctorate in Eastern Europe¿. Her current project is the finalization of a book, ¿Russia and Europe: Confrontations in Higher Education¿. She has been teaching for the CEU Gender Studies department since 1997 and from 2007 for the new specialization in Higher Education at CEU¿s Department of Public Policy.
Prof. Ari Kokko Ari Kokko is Director of the China Economic Research Center at the Stockholm School of Economics and Professor of International Business at Copenhagen Business School. In the past, he has been Research Director at the European Institute of Japanese Studies in Stockholm and Professor of International Business at Abo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. In 2007-2008, he was Chairman of a public inquiry on the development of Swedish exports and competitiveness, and during the period 1999-2007, he served as a member of the Board of Directors of Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. His research and teaching interests focus on international trade and investment, technology transfer and innovation, transition, and economic development: a substantial share of his work since the early 1990s has dealt with China and Vietnam. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics, and an Honorary Doctorate in Economics from Tartu University, Estonia. Prof. Mikel Larreina Mikel Larreina is Professor of Financial Institutions and Instruments at the University of Deusto. He is responsible for international relations at the Business School and director of the EIBM Master (European & International Business Management). He has been a visiting professor at the Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria), at the Universidad Centroamericana (El Salvador) and at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland).
His main research interests include international financial markets, financial centres, and the structure of financial markets, collaborating with several main financial companies since 2004 in both research and executive education. Besides, he has made intensive research on wine economics and the economic impact of the wine industry, having been an advisor in this field to the European Committee of the Regions, and to several regional Governments in Spain. He has published several papers in peer reviewed international journals on both financial centres and wine economics. He has published four books on wine economics, being awarded an international prize at Beijing in 2006 for ¿Vinos y Bodegas de Rioja¿. Prof. Andrea Sironi Andrea Sironi is Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions at Bocconi University in Milan, where he previously held the positions of Dean for International Affairs, Vice Rector for Graduate Programs and Director of the Research Division of SDA Bocconi Business School. He held visiting positions at the Salomon Centre of Stern School of Business (NYU) and at Federal Reserve Board of Governors (Washington).
His main research interests include risk management, banking supervision and regulation, and international financial markets. Professor Sironi has published extensively on these topics in the major international banking and finance academic journals. He is also the author of international books such as Risk Management and Shareholders Value in Banking (Wiley), and Loss Given Default: the next Challenge in Credit Risk Management (Risk Books). He is a fellow of Carefin Bocconi and a member of the Fitch Academic Advisory Board. Professor Sironi has frequently advised major international financial institutions on topics related to his research interests. Prof. Ton Wilthagen
Prof. Ton Wilthagen holds a chair in institutional and legal aspects of the labour market at the Faculty of Law of Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is a member of the Department of Social Law and Social Policy. Furthermore, Ton Wilthagen is the Director of the ReflecT: the Research Institute on Flexicurity, Labour Market Dynamics and Social Cohesion at Tilburg University ReflecT
During the years 2004-2007 Wilthagen headed a research programme on flexicurity, carried out by Tilburg University, Amsterdam University and Aalborg University (Denmark) and funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research N.W.O.
Previously, Wilthagen was affiliated with OSA ¿ the Institute for Labour Studies in Tilburg, the Hugo Sinzheimer Institute and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies, the latter two at Amsterdam University, the Netherlands. He has been a visiting researcher at the Social Science Centre Berlin (WZB), where the transitional labour market approached was developed by prof. Guenther Schmid.
Wilthagen¿s research interest is in labour market and employment regulation, labour law, industrial relations and a variety of labour market issues. His main focus lies on the themes of flexicurity, (which he has developed from 1996 onwards), transitional labour markets and life-course approaches on which he has published extensively. Wilthagen has been involved in many European-scale research projects, commissioned among other things by the European Commission, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
Wilthagen was a member of the Working Group on Social Innovation of the Social and Economic Council (SER) of the Netherlands. He has frequently acted as an advisor to the European Commission, among things as a member and the rapporteur of the European Expert Group on Flexicurity, to the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the ILO and to various national governments and social partner organisations in Europe In the past Wilthagen was the Dutch correspondent for the European SYSDEM-network of the European Employment Observatory.
He has published extensively in academic journals and served as co-editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies, the leading academic journal focusing on the study of European integration, from 1998 to 2003. He has undertaken a number of advisory roles, including being a member of a groupe de prospective on the future of cohesion policy, a member of the Research Committee of the Czech National Bank, and being called as an expert witness on EU issues by the House of Commons Treasury Committee, the House of Lords European Communities Committee and the European Parliament. He is a frequent contributor to international conferences on EU economic policy issues and is regularly solicited for interviews by journalists. Prof. Alain Chenu Alain Chenu, Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris, is the director of the CDSP (Center for Social and Political Data). CDSP is part of the French Data Archive Network ¿Réseau Quetelet¿ and of the European infrastructure CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives).
His main research interests are in comparative trends in the use of time, the role of mass media in the social construction of celebrity, and the history of survey methods. His most recent works include Sociologie des employés (Paris, La Découverte, 2005), "Time Use Surveys: a Review of their Aims, Methods, and Results", European Journal of Sociology, 47(3), 2006 (with Laurent Lesnard), "From paths of glory to celebrity boulevards: Sociology of Paris Match covers, 1949-2005", Revue française de sociologie, 49(1), 2008. Prof. Marcel Das Marcel Das holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Tilburg University (1998). In 2000, he became the director of CentERdata, a survey research institute specialized in web-based surveys and applied economic research, housed at the campus of Tilburg University. As a director of CentERdata he has managed a large number of national and international research projects. He coordinates the central development of survey instruments for the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and he is one of the principal investigators of the Dutch MESS project for which CentERdata received major funding from the Dutch Government. Since February 2009, Das is Professor of Econometrics and data collection at the Department of Econometrics and Operations Research of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Tilburg University. He has published a number of scientific publications in international peer reviewed journals in the field of statistical and empirical analysis of survey data and methodological issues in web-based (panel) surveys. His current research interests include design issues in web-based interviewing and methods and techniques of online questionnaires. Prof. Patrick Dunleavy Patrick Dunleavy is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating in 1973. He moved to Nuffield College, Oxford to work on his D.Phil (published as The Politics of Mass Housing in Britain, 1945-75) until 1978. He became a Junior Research Fellow at Nuffield in 1976. He moved briefly to the Open University as Lecturer in Urban Studies (1978-9) before joining LSE as a Lecturer. He was promoted successively to Reader in 1986 and Professor in 1989. Subsequently he founded LSE Public Policy Group in 1992. He became a (founding) member of the Academy of the Social Sciences in 1999. His main research interests include public choice theory; electoral systems; voting behaviour and party competition; bureau shaping and bureaucracy; government structures and institutional analysis; executive budgeting; new public management and globalization; urban politics; political sociology. Prof. Dunleavy published on these topics in several journals. He is also the author of international books such as Digital ERA Governance: IT Cooperations, the State and e-Governement (Oxford University Press) and he¿s alos the author of several reports for the UK National Audit Office. Prof. Bernhard Ebbinghaus Bernhard Ebbinghaus is Professor of Sociology at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Since 2008 he is Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), the largest university research institute in social sciences in Germany. Since 2006, Ebbinghaus is co-director of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim. Ebbinghaus is author of Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA (Oxford UP 2006), editor of Varieties of Pension Governance (Oxford UP 2010), and co-author (with Jelle Visser) of Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945 (Macmillan, 2000). His research interests include European labour relations and organized interests as well as comparative social policy, in particular pension policy, minimum income systems and labour market policies. He currently leads a project on the Governance of Supplementary Pensions in Europe funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and on Minimum Income Systems in Europe funded by the German Hans-Böckler Foundation at MZES.
Prof. Sophia Howlett Dr Howlett received her first degree from Cambridge and her DPhil from York. She has taught in the UK, Ukraine and Russia (as part of a sabbatical programme), before moving to CEU in 1997 as the head of a newly established office to promote CEU¿s external activities in international higher education development: complimenting the higher education activities of CEU¿s sister institution, Open Society Institute. Under her leadership, the office has developed into a department providing grants, training, consultancy and policy thinking to more than 1000 higher education practitioners and institutions a year and is now a Carnegie Institutional Leader in Teaching and Learning.
Dr Howlett regularly provides such services in higher education policy for Open Society Institute, World Bank projects, the Institute for International Education, Academic Training Association, Amideast etc. She has served on the Board of Civic Education Project, a large variety of OSI boards and committees focusing on Higher Education, as founder and Chair of the Board for an NGO to develop Central Asian higher education, as well as for new Middle East initiatives, Goldman Sachs, Rolex Young Laureates Programme etc. She has also recently focused on social equality issues in higher education, including initiating and running the only graduate ¿access¿ project for Roma.
Her most recent works were policy studies: ¿The Bologna Process in the former Soviet Union¿ (as an International Policy Fellow) and ¿The State of the Doctorate in Eastern Europe¿. Her current project is the finalization of a book, ¿Russia and Europe: Confrontations in Higher Education¿. She has been teaching for the CEU Gender Studies department since 1997 and from 2007 for the new specialization in Higher Education at CEU¿s Department of Public Policy.
Prof. Ari Kokko Ari Kokko is Director of the China Economic Research Center at the Stockholm School of Economics and Professor of International Business at Copenhagen Business School. In the past, he has been Research Director at the European Institute of Japanese Studies in Stockholm and Professor of International Business at Abo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. In 2007-2008, he was Chairman of a public inquiry on the development of Swedish exports and competitiveness, and during the period 1999-2007, he served as a member of the Board of Directors of Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. His research and teaching interests focus on international trade and investment, technology transfer and innovation, transition, and economic development: a substantial share of his work since the early 1990s has dealt with China and Vietnam. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics, and an Honorary Doctorate in Economics from Tartu University, Estonia. Prof. Mikel Larreina Mikel Larreina is Professor of Financial Institutions and Instruments at the University of Deusto. He is responsible for international relations at the Business School and director of the EIBM Master (European & International Business Management). He has been a visiting professor at the Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria), at the Universidad Centroamericana (El Salvador) and at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland).
His main research interests include international financial markets, financial centres, and the structure of financial markets, collaborating with several main financial companies since 2004 in both research and executive education. Besides, he has made intensive research on wine economics and the economic impact of the wine industry, having been an advisor in this field to the European Committee of the Regions, and to several regional Governments in Spain. He has published several papers in peer reviewed international journals on both financial centres and wine economics. He has published four books on wine economics, being awarded an international prize at Beijing in 2006 for ¿Vinos y Bodegas de Rioja¿. Prof. Andrea Sironi Andrea Sironi is Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions at Bocconi University in Milan, where he previously held the positions of Dean for International Affairs, Vice Rector for Graduate Programs and Director of the Research Division of SDA Bocconi Business School. He held visiting positions at the Salomon Centre of Stern School of Business (NYU) and at Federal Reserve Board of Governors (Washington).
His main research interests include risk management, banking supervision and regulation, and international financial markets. Professor Sironi has published extensively on these topics in the major international banking and finance academic journals. He is also the author of international books such as Risk Management and Shareholders Value in Banking (Wiley), and Loss Given Default: the next Challenge in Credit Risk Management (Risk Books). He is a fellow of Carefin Bocconi and a member of the Fitch Academic Advisory Board. Professor Sironi has frequently advised major international financial institutions on topics related to his research interests. Prof. Ton Wilthagen
Prof. Ton Wilthagen holds a chair in institutional and legal aspects of the labour market at the Faculty of Law of Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is a member of the Department of Social Law and Social Policy. Furthermore, Ton Wilthagen is the Director of the ReflecT: the Research Institute on Flexicurity, Labour Market Dynamics and Social Cohesion at Tilburg University ReflecT
During the years 2004-2007 Wilthagen headed a research programme on flexicurity, carried out by Tilburg University, Amsterdam University and Aalborg University (Denmark) and funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research N.W.O.
Previously, Wilthagen was affiliated with OSA ¿ the Institute for Labour Studies in Tilburg, the Hugo Sinzheimer Institute and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies, the latter two at Amsterdam University, the Netherlands. He has been a visiting researcher at the Social Science Centre Berlin (WZB), where the transitional labour market approached was developed by prof. Guenther Schmid.
Wilthagen¿s research interest is in labour market and employment regulation, labour law, industrial relations and a variety of labour market issues. His main focus lies on the themes of flexicurity, (which he has developed from 1996 onwards), transitional labour markets and life-course approaches on which he has published extensively. Wilthagen has been involved in many European-scale research projects, commissioned among other things by the European Commission, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
Wilthagen was a member of the Working Group on Social Innovation of the Social and Economic Council (SER) of the Netherlands. He has frequently acted as an advisor to the European Commission, among things as a member and the rapporteur of the European Expert Group on Flexicurity, to the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the ILO and to various national governments and social partner organisations in Europe In the past Wilthagen was the Dutch correspondent for the European SYSDEM-network of the European Employment Observatory.
