Faculty at Central European University, Department of Public Policy - coordinating institution:


Dr Uwe Puetter, Associate Professor, Head of Department

Dr Puetter is Associate Professor and head of CEU's Department of Public Policy. He received his PhD from Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland/UK in 2004. He worked with the Secretariat of the European Union's Economic and Financial Committee and Economic Policy Committee in 2002 and was a EUSSIRF Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute in Florence and a scholarship holder of the European Political-economy Infrastructure Consortium (EPIC). He is a member of the executive committee of the journal European Political Economy Review and serves on the committee of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) as of September 2006. His recent publications include a research monograph on The Eurogroup, published with Manchester University Press.


Dr Agnes Batory, Assistant Professor, Mundus MAPP Academic Coordinator

Dr Batory (PhD, Cambridge University) is assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy and a research fellow in the Center for Policy Studies. Her doctoral research dealt with political attitudes to EU membership in East Central Europe. Her current and recent research projects deal with visa and consular policy in the context of ENP, views on Turkey's EU membership in the political discourse of new member states, and a network of academics working on anti-corruption. Prior to joining CEU, she was head of a unit in the Hungarian Prime Ministers office. Her research interests include EU enlargement, the party political aspects of European Integration, transparency and governance and anti-corruption policy. She is co-editor of a volume on European elections and her research monograph on The Politics of EU Accession is forthcoming with Manchester University Press.

Further professors at the CEU Department of Public Policy.