The Maecenas Universitatis Corvini, which operates Corvinus University in Budapest, has announced a tender to perform the duties of Rector, with Dr. András Lánczi’s term of office ending on 30 June 2021.
As rector, Dr. Andras Lanzi managed Corvinus for six years, stabilizing the university both economically and professionally. In a statement, the university said he supported academic development issues that opened the window to the wider world, such as renewing the organizational framework and content for doctoral training or establishing the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies. “It recognized the lack of competitiveness in local higher education and successfully prepared Corvinus for the transition to the new form of operation,” the statement said.
Thanks to Dr. András Lánczi for his indisputable merits, the University wishes him much success in his further work.
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After the support of the Senate of Corvinus University, the Board of Trustees of the Maecenas Universitatis Corvini began appointing Dr. Ilid Takats, whom President Janos Ader personally handed over his mandate on June 24, 2021. The new Dean will take office on August 1, 2021.
Our strategic goal is to make Corvinus the best university for economics and social sciences in Central Europe by 2030. In the person of Dr. Elide Tackets, a famous economist with significant international experience, he will join the rector of the university. Dr. Ilid Takats recognized him, agreed with the university’s strategy and development plan, and is committed to making it a success.” – emphasized Zsolt Hernádi, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Maecenas Universitatis Corvini, which operates Corvinus.
The university said in a statement that the plans of Rector Dr. Ilid Takat include establishing an experiential education that results in lasting knowledge and knowledge transfer that gives students competitive knowledge.
“The goal is to become an elite regional university, and the students graduating here will be major players in the economy and society of Central Europe. In the medium term, we want to offer a training, a research performance that stands out not only from our competitors in Central Europe, but from any university in the world Provides economic training To deliver a performance that makes the university the first choice for the best and most committed Hungarian students This mission is personally motivating.
The emigration of young people with good ability is a quiet national disaster.
Elite training in economics and social sciences cannot be outsourced. Especially if we want to get out of the trap of moderately developed countries. To use a metaphor: I think we are climbers. A steep but predictable path leads to the summit. However, you cannot climb on this overnight. We will go step by step. ” – said Dr. Ilid Takats, the new rector of Corvinus University in Budapest.
The new dean himself is a Corvinus alumnus, graduating in 1999 from Corvinus’ legal predecessor, the Budapest University of Economics, majoring in financial and economic policy. He passed the stock exchange exam in 2000, and in 2002 he received a master’s degree in economics from the Central European University. He received an MA in Economics from Princeton University in 2004, and a Ph.D. in 2006.
He worked as a researcher at the European Central Bank, the Hungarian National Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and then the International Monetary Fund. Since 2009, he has been an Economist and then Chief Economist at the Basel-based Bank for International Settlements. Since 2018, he is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Since 2019, he has been Professor Emeritus at Corvinus University in Budapest. In 2021, the Senate of Corvinus endorsed his candidacy for a university professor and then the President of the Republic appointed him as a university professor. Dr. Ilid Takats conducts research in the common areas of finance, macroeconomics and monetary policy, and his most recent areas of research are demography and the economics of climate change. Dr.’s publications. long time ago on this link Available.
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