Curriculum Vitae
Personal data
Name
: Gál Zoltán
Place and date of birth
: Eger, December 21st,1967
Marital status
: married, two children
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Education and training| 1992 | The Queens University, Belfast, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences — MSc. | | 1993 | Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen — BSc., MSc. (geography-history) | | 1994 | Central European University, Budapest — M.A. in banking history (in English) | | 1998 | Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest — PhD in Financial Geography | | 2000 | SQW & the British Know How Fund — Innovation manager | | 2009 | University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics — habilitation |
Language skills| German (reads) | | Russian (reads) | | English (writes, reads, lectures) |
Places of work and employment| 1993—1996 | Centre for Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences Central and East-Hungarian Research Institute — HAS TMB scholarship | | 1994—1996 | University of Miskolc Faculty of Arts Department of World History — assistant lecturer | | 1996—1997 | Protestant Reformed High School in Pécs — teacher | | 1997—2000 | Centre for Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences Transdanubian Research Institute — junior research fellow | | 2000— | Centre for Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences Transdanubian Research Institute — senior research fellow | | 2001— | University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics Doctoral School of Regional Policy and Economics, Pécs — consultant | | 2001—2003 | University of Kaposvár Faculty of Economic Science — department's senior | | 2004—2011 | University of Kaposvár Faculty of Economic Science — associate professor | | 2010—2013 | University of Kaposvár — Director of International Relations | | 2011—2015 | Kaposvári Egyetem GTK Regionális Gazdasági és Statisztika Tanszék — m.b. tanszékvezető, habilitált egyetemi docens | | 2012— | MTA Közgazdaság- és Regionális Tudományi Kutatóközpont, Regionális Kutatások Intézete, Dunántúli Tudományos Osztály — tudományos főmunkatárs | | 2015—2016 | University of Pécs, Faculty of Economics — Senior Researcher (F7 project) | | 2016—2019 | University of Kaposvár — Head of the department of Regional Economics and Statistics | | 2019— | Pécsi Tudományegyetem Közgazdaságtudományi Kar — egyetemi tanár |
Teaching activities| 1994—1996 | assistant lecturer, University of Mikolc | | 1998—2003 | visiting lecturer, University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics Department of Agriculture, Environment and Regional Economics | | 2001—2003 | visiting lecturer, University of Kaposvár Faculty of Economics | | 2001— | visiting fellow and supervisor, University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics Doctoral School of Regional Policy and Economics, Pécs | | 2004— | associate professor, University of Kaposvár Faculty of Economic Science | | 2005 | guest lecturer, Visegrad Fundation Summer School, Kraków | | 2005—2009 | visiting lecturer, College for Modern Business Studies, Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania | | 2006 | guest lecturer, Danube Rectors Conference Summer School, Dubrovnik | | 2008 | supervisor in Regional Economics and Policy, Doctoral School of Management and Organisational Science, Kaposvár University | | 2008 | guest lecturer, Georegnet Summer School, University of Maribor | | 2008 | (British Academy Visiting Fellow), Oxford University, Centre for Environment | | 2010 | guest lecturer, Olomouc, Palacky University | | 2013 | Head of the MSc Programme in Regional Economics & Environmental Management, Kaposvár University | | 2013 | guest lecturer, Brno, Masaryk University | | 2013— | general member of Doctoral School Council, Doctoral School of Management and Organisational Science, Kaposvár University | | 2014 | visiting fellow, Trinity College, Dublin |
Scientific activity| 1900— | Regional Innovation Strategy in South-Transdanubia, Steering Committee, member | | 1993—2004 | Hajnal István Society of Social History, member | | 1998— | Regional Committee of Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Pécs Committee of Environment, Settlement Science and Regional Development, member | | 1998— | Hungarian Geographical Society, member | | 1998— | South Transdanubian Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Regional Development Sub-Committee, member | | 1998— | Hungarian Academy of Sciences Section X Committee of Geographical Sciences, member | | 1999— | Hungarian Academy of Sciences Section IX Law and Economics Committee of Regional Science, member | | 1999— | Regional Science Association, European Section, member | | 2001— | Regional Studies Association, member | | 2001— | Pécs-Baranya Chamber of Commerce Committee of Innovation, member | | 2003— | Hungarian Regional Science Association, member | | 2003—2005 | National Office for Research and Technology Regional Foresight Program, expert | | 2003—2004 | Hungarian Academy of Sciences Section X. European Commission DG Research Regional Foresight Workteam, external expert | | 2004—2010 | Society for the Advancement Socio-Economics, member | | 2006—2007 | ERAWATCH Project Network „Specific Analysis On the Regional Dimensions of Investment In Research” Program, expert | | 2008— | Outsourcing and offshoring Business Services: RSA Research Network, member | | 2010— | Hungarian Economic Association, member | | 2011—2012 | RSA Research Network “Geographies of finance and post-socialist transformations”, organiser | | 2011— | Referee Board of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) in Section on Economics & Future studies, member | | 2013 | ACEU (Alliance of Central and Eastern European Universities), vice-president | | 2016— | Global Network of Financial Geography (http://www,fingeo.net), Regional Ambassador | | 2016— | Hungarian Academy of Science Committee of Regional Science, elected member with voting right | | 2017— | Hungarian Regional Science Association, president |
Awards| 1989—1993 | National Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic | | 1998 | Holder of Predoctoral Scholarship of Soros Foundation, Soros Foundation | | 1991—1993 | Universitas Scholarship, University of Debrecen | | 1999—2002 | Holder of the Postdoctorate Scholarship of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund | | 1991 | National Young Scientist Award | | 1991 | Prize of the 'For European Hungary and Political Science Institution Foundation', Foundation of Political Science | | 1997 | Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, HAS, MTA | | 1998 | Prize of the Strategic Research Programme of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences | | 1999 | Junior Scientists' Award of Hungarian Academy of Sciences | | 1999 | NSRB, Postdoctoral Scholarship | | 2001—2004 | Holder of the Bolyai Postdoctoral Scholarship by the Hungarian Academy | | 2005 | Eastern European Prize of the Society for the Advancement Socio-Economics (SASE) for the study submitted on “ Spatial and Structural Development and the Expanding European Integration of the Hungarian Banking System”, The Society for the Advancement Socio-Economics | | 2007 | Young Scientist Award by the South Transdanubian Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
Editorial Membership| 1998—2009 | editor of Discussion Papers Series of HAS Centre for Regional Studies, series editor | | 2010— | member of the Editorial Board of the journal Tér és Társadalom (Space & Society) | | 2011— | member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Springer Verlag) | | 2011— | member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Economic Development, Environment And People |
Subjects taught| Regional finance (Kaposvár University) | | Regional economics of financial services (University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics Doctoral School of Regional Policy and Economics) | | Economic geography (Kaposvár University) | | Financial globalization (Kaposvár University) | | Regional and urban economics (Kaposvár University) | | Regional economics (Kaposvár University) | | Innovation policy and financing (College of Modern Business Sciences Székelyudvarhely) | | Innovation management (Kaposvár University) | | Regional economics of services (University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics Doctoral School of Regional Policy and Economics) | | Regional innovation policy and management (Kaposvár University) | | European monetary integration (University of Pécs) | | The financial geography of globalization (Kaposvár University) |
Research fields| Regional Finance, Regional Economics, Financial Geography, International Finance, Economic Geography, Services Economics | | Regional Innovation, Innovation Management, Regional Innovation Policy, Innovation Geography, Regional foresight | | Történeti földrajz, banktörténet, gazdaságtörténet. |
Trips abroad| 1991—1992 | study trip (TEMPUS grant) — Ireland | | 1998 | Visiting Fellow — United Kingdom | | 1998 | study trip — United Kingdom | | 1999 | study trip — United States | | 1999 | study tip — Poland | | 1999 | study trip — Austria | | 2000 | study trip — Italy | | 2001 | study trip (TEMPUS Program) — United Kingdom | | 2004 | study trip — Ireland | | 2007 | study trip — China | | 2008 | study trip — Czech Republic | | 2008 | study trip - University of Oxford — United Kingdom | | 2008 | study trip — United States | | 2009 | study trip — Czech Republic | | 2014 | Trinity College, Dublin, visiting fellow at the Geography Department — Ireland |
Publications
Complete list of publications and citations (MTMT Hungarian Scientific Bibliography)
Organizing international research networks:
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Regional Studies Association Research Network on Outsourcing and offshoring Business Services: Theoretical Perspective and Global Empirical Trends (2008-2010)
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Regional Studies Association Research Network on Geographies of Finance and Post-Socialist Transformations (2010-2013)
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Regional Ambassador of the Global Network on Financial Geography http://www.fingeo.net/, (2015-)
Design, implementation and management of research projects/exhibitions:
He has been involved in several research projects on the European, national and regional level, including INTERREG III/B (TWIST, Carpathian project), and ESPON projects (ESPON 3.2 , ET-2050 Territorial) and managed projects on RIS and pre-accession IPA projects. In FP7 (RASTANEWS) project he has conducted research on the „Role of FDI in regional imbalances in Central and Eastern Europe.”and hes is also involved in national research project ( OTKA #82018) measuring the host country impact of service sector FDI. He was involved in Regional Foresight programme for the DG Research (EC) and EU ERAWATCH project on Specific Analysis on the Regional Dimensions of Investment in Research.
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