Martin Kahanec#
| Membership Number: | 4300 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SLOVAKIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://people.ceu.edu/martin_kahanec |
| ORCID: | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4397-3083 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Professor, Central European University, Vienna (formerly Budapest)
- 2021 - present Director, The Shattuck Center for Human Rights, CEU, Vienna
- 2021 - 2023 Head, Department of Public Policy, Central European University, Vienna
- 2017 - 2019 and 2020-2021 Acting Dean, School of Public Policy, Central European University, Vienna
- 2012 - 2016 Associate Professor, Central European University, Budapest
- 2010 - 2012 Assistant Professor, Central European University, Budapest
- 2008 - present Co-Founder and Scientific Director, Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI)
- 2019 - 2020 Mercator Senior Visiting Fellow at Bruegel, Brussels
- 2014 - present LWP Fellow, Harvard University
- 2015 - present Research Associate, University of Economics in Bratislava
- 2015 - present Affiliated Scholar, Centre for Population, Development and Labour Economics, United Nations University, MERIT, Maastricht
- 2012 - present Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn
- 2005 - 2012 Senior Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn
- 1 - 12/2009 Deputy Director of Research and member of the Executive Board, Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn
- Editorial Roles: Acta Oeconomica; Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies; Economic Systems; Journal of European Social Policy; International Journal of Manpower
Fields of Scholarship
- Labor and Population Economics
- Migration and Labor Mobility
- Economic Policy and Reforms
- Labor Policy
- Inequalities and Vulnerabilities in the Labor Market
- Ethnic Minorities
- Migration and Integration Policy
Honours and Awards
- 2022 - present Member of the Council of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Research, Technology and Innovation
- 2022 - present Jury member for social sciences and humanities, Falling Walls Award
- 2022 - 2024 Member of the Governing Board of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
- 2020 - 2021 Member of the national COVID-19 Economic Crisis Management Council at the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic and member of the Minister's advisory council
- 2019 - 2022 Member of the Scientific Board of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic
- 2019 - present Member of the Scientific Board, Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Kosice
- 2017 - present Advisory Board member, Fellow, “EU Mobility” cluster lead, Global Labor Organization
- 2016 - 2017 Chair of the national Expert Panel of the Council for Research, Development and Innovation for the evaluation of research output in Social Sciences. Appointed by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.
- 2015 Member of the national Expert Panel of the Council for Research, Development and Innovation for the evaluation of research output in Social Sciences; the Government of the Czech Republic
- 2015 - 2019 Member of the Scientific Board, Faculty of National Economy, University of Economics in Bratislava
- 2015 - 2019 Member of the Scientific Board, Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica
- 2010 - 2017 Member of the Committee for research area 8.2 Economics and Management of the Slovak Accreditation Commission
- 2008 - Fellow (since 2010), elected President (2016 - 2018), elected Vice-President (since 2012, re-elected 2014), Slovak Economic Association
- Since 2011 Ranked as No. 1 economist in Slovakia by scientific publications according to RePEc
