Faculty and Adjunct Faculty

György Bőgel is professor of business management, and teaches courses on organizational behavior, outsourcing and entrepreneurship. He also participates in many projects at the school’s executive education unit. His main research interest is the influence of technological development on management structures and processes.

Stuart Durrant is senior lecturer of Real Estate Studies at CEU Business School, where he joined as the Area Coordinator for the Real Estate Management program in January 2008. Before, he worked as a Real Estate consultant, including service as Managing Director of DTZ Budapest, and later EC Harris Budapest. Durrant has been qulified as ASVA (Associate of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers) in 1994 and, on merging of ISVA and RICS, became MRICS (Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) in 2000. He also served as Managing Director of the Business School from June 2009 to December 2010.

Jay Fogelman has been teaching at CEU Business School since 2005. He has more than 30 years of experience in business, including 25 in IT services and related fields. He has held regional, intercontinental and global management positions with the Amdahl Corporation, EMC Corporation and SAS Scandinavian Airlines. He is an experienced lecturer, consultant, executive coach, project manager, and has delivered sales training for some of the world’s largest technology companies across Europe and America. From 2000 to 2001, he managed EMC’s business consulting practice for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Fogelman holds an MA in philosophy of science from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA with special honors in philosophy from Lake Forest College in Illinois.
He is the Business School's representative in the CEU Senate.

Mel Horwitch is Dean and University Professor at Central European University Business School, located in Budapest, Hungary.

Previously, he was Professor of Technology Management, Director of the Institute for Technology and Enterprise, former Chair of the Department of Technology Management, Founding Director of the Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, and faculty director of the CleantechExecs Executive Program at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

Professor Horwitch is an acknowledged expert on entrepreneurship and innovation management. He has written extensively on technology strategy, particularly with reference to knowledge-intensive sectors (e.g. services, media, information technology, and telecommunications), global innovation, and the role of networks and cross-boundary and multi-sector endeavors in developing technology. Most recently, Professor Horwitch has focused his research on clean tech and sustainability management, global innovation (especially with regard to emerging economies), global entrepreneurship in both stand-alone and corporate venues and the future configuration of modern innovation. He developed new courses at NYU-Poly on clean tech and renewable energy innovation, services innovation, entrepreneurship, business model innovation, global innovation, managing growing enterprises and society-wide technology policy. He also has extensive executive education experience.

Bernadett Köles holds a Master as well as a Doctorate degree from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Science with distinction from Indiana University, Bloomington IN. Her educational background is in the field of psychology, which she has applied to the areas of management, education, and governmental regulations. Bernadett has joined CEU Business School in 2003 as a faculty member, serves as the Co-Director for the Initiative for Regulatory Innovation Research Center, and has served as the Academic Director of the institution’s Undergraduate Programs. Her teaching portfolio includes courses in psychology, leadership, cultural assessments, and methodological topics. Her research encompasses a variety of cross cultural analyses in CEE and beyond, along with a strong focus concerning the impact of social media and virtual environments on education, business endeavors, and the field of social sciences. Bernadett has authored a number of articles, serves as a reviewer for several journals, and has developed a number of executive projects for international organizations.

Paul Marer has been a professor of international business for more than 30 years. He joined the CEU Business School in 2000, after having taught at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business since 1975. He holds a PhD in International Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an honorary doctorate from Budapest University of Economic Sciences. He was appointed by three consecutive US presidents—George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton and George Bush Jr.—to serve on the board of trustees for the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund, a $78 million fund from the US government to promote private enterprise in Hungary. He wrote or edited 20 books and 150 articles and chapters, mainly on the changing political, economic and business situation in Hungary, the other transitioning countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and China.

Bala Mulloth is an assistant professor of entrepreneurship and innovation management at Central European University (CEU) Business School. His PhD from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) dealt with the rise and practice of social entrepreneurship in New York City's clean technology sector. His main research focus is in entrepreneurship and innovation, particularly in the areas of clean technology innovation.

Bala was appointed faculty director of CEU InnovationsLab in March 2012. The InnovationsLab has several objectives, including nurturing new firms, promoting economic development, providing learning opportunities for students in terms of skill building and testing ideas for new ventures, developing curriculum, and cultivating research opportunities for faculty.

Prior to moving to Hungary and joining CEU Business School, Bala was the senior manager of NYU-Poly's Office of Innovation Development, Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship. He was also responsible for the operations of the business incubators, including NYC-ACRE (Accelerator for a Clean and Renewable Economy), an incubator for clean technology and renewable energy start-up companies.

He teaches courses on Sustainability in Business, Social Entrepreneurship and India and South Asia.

Anna Turner, Ph.D. has her M. Sc. in Economics from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration (BUESPA). She has been teaching for 12 years, both graduate and undergraduate level. Her courses include financial accounting, cost accounting, business economics and financial management.

Her experience in teaching includes in the Corvinus University (Budapest), Wirschaftuniversitaet Wien (Vienna, Austria), Számalk (Budapest), Middlesex University (London, UK) and the CEU Business School. She also experienced in training professionals and delivering corporate courses.

Her PhD dissertation focused on Maximising Shareholder Value in Eastern Europe. She was awarded a summa cum laude doctoral diploma. Her area of research is value based-measures and value-based management. She is a co-writer of a book about shareholder value, published in 2006.

She is the Coordinator for the Accounting, Finance and Economics Ares of study.

Pal Baross FRICS, CRE is Senior Adjunct Lecturer of Real Estate Studies. He holds an academic degree of Landscape Architecture (Hungary), Urban and Regional Planning (Canada) and Development Planning (England). As a Senior Consultant at the Institute of Housing and Urban Development (The Netherlands) he worked on large-scale urban development projects in Asia and Latin America. Since 1992 he was the Country Manager in Hungary for ING Real Estate Development and the coordinating Regional Board Member for Central Europe. His project experience includes the development, leasing and sale of residential, office, retail and logistics projects. He is member of the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE). The Urban Land Institute (ULI) and chairman of the Hungarian chapter of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

M.A., Liberal Studies, St. John's College (Annapolis); Ph.D., Philosophy, Boston College.
Teach and research in ethics, metaethics, applied ethics (business ethics/bioethics), political philosophy, theory of rational choice, critical thinking and reasoning. Especially interested in the particularism/genera​lism debate, practical rationality and the ramifications of behavioral economics for our understandings of agents and ethics, in particular integrity and corruption.

Darker areas of his past include a stint as a radio DJ in rural Ohio.

Tibor Farkas teaches Marketing at CEU Business School since 2003. He has been Managing Director at McCann Relationship Management Budapest from 1994 to 2001 and Director of Marketing and Business Developmentat Ernst & Young Budapest from 2001 to 2003. Since 2003 he manages his own consultancy company, HR Media. During his career, Farkas consulted many major multinationals, inlcuding SonyEricsson, Skanska, GE, Nestlé, and Unilever. He got his MBA from Budapest University of Economic Sciences in 2001.

Laura Ipacs teaches Accounting and Finance at CEU Business School since 2003. She got her MBA from the Imperial College Business School in London, UK and qualified as a Certified Accountant (ACCA) while working with Coopers and Lybrand in Corporate Finance. Afterwards, she worked for multinational companies such as DuPont and Hasbro as a finance director for several years. Laura pursues a career in education and also regularly teaches professional accountancy exam and development courses in Europe and China.

István O. Nagy is a partner of Ernst & Young in Hungary, leading the Performance Improvement Services. Prior to joining Ernst & Young he was a Senior Manager of Deloitte. Before that he was senior manager of A.T. Kearney and he spent several years in the Business Consulting division of Arthur Andersen. Nagy teaches regularly in various executive and post-graduate courses, including various MBA courses. He is a tutor of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK) and member of the Hungarian Marketing Association. Nagy holds a Master of Science from the Technical University of Cluj (Romania) and an M.B.A. from the University of Tulane (USA). He is a Certified Management Consultant since 1996.

Gábor Soóki-Tóth teaches Real Estate Studies at CEU Business School. He has extensive experience in the real estate sector: During 1996 – 2006 he held various management positions at NL/UK headquartered ECORYS Consultants local office. He worked for international clients like AIG/Lincoln, Bernheim-Comofi, ECE, the ENGEL Group, Grontmij, Hochtief, ING Real Estate, SBI, SKANSKA, TESCO and a number of local developers, primarily preparing project feasibility and market studies. He contributed to several urban regeneration studies, among others the Budapest Urban Regeneration Policy and the Corvin Promenade project. In 2005 he was the project manager of the Housing Study in Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe, a major multi-country research project for the European Investment Bank. Currently Soóki-Tóth is Director of Real Estate at CBS Property Zrt., majority owned by Chayton Sava Partners and C.V. Starr & Co. He is responsible for the interim exploitation, planning and predevelopment activities of the property portfolio owned by CBS Property.

Gábor Soóki-Tóth holds a Diploma in Architecture from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE, 1993) and an Master of Science in Real Estate from Nottingham Trent University (NTU, 1999). He is a certified bank consultant (ITCB, 2005) and has also completed a course on construction supervision (BUTE, 2007).
He is member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and the European Real Estate Society.

Zsuzsanna Tungli specializes in leadership, cross-cultural management and global mobility. Currently she teaches MBA and/or undergraduate courses at the Business School of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland. She coaches executives and teams on leadership and teambuilding at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland, and trains executives in collaboration with Aperian Global for moving across cultures and working globally. Her consulting focuses on management consulting, recently she co-led an international benchmarking knowledge management project. Zsuzsanna has lived and worked in a number of countries, including Germany, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. She has a PhD in cross-cultural management from London Business School, UK, an MBA in general management from Bocconi University, Milan, Italy (including an exchange program at UCLA, USA), and an MSc in Economics from Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary. Zsuzsanna is married to a British man and they have a 10-year old girl and a 7-year old boy.