Ilona Pálné Kovács - Curriculum Vitae#

Education

• 2003 Habilitation, University of Pécs, Faculty of Business and Economics
  
• 2000 Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  
• 1988 PhD in Political Sciences
  
• 1978 – University Degree in Law, University of Pécs

Additional Teaching Experience

• 2003 Founding member of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School , Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Pécs
  
• 2002 Professor at the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pécs. She is teaching in in bachelor, master and PhD courses in public administration, constitutional law, local and regional governance
  
• 1998 - 2001 Széchenyi Scholarship, Univ. of Pécs Faculty of Arts and Humanities
  
• 1996 Lecturer, Doctoral School of Regional Policy, Faculty of Business, University of Pécs

Professional services

• Member of various scientific bodies : Standing Committee of Social Sciences, ESF, Collegium of National Research Fund (OTKA), Bolyai- Board, HAS, Board of Hungarian Association of Political Science
  
• Member of editorial boards of Hungarian and foreign quaterlies:
  
  • Tér és Társadalom, Comitatus, Carta Economica Regional,
    
  • Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, France, (2014-)
    
  • European Journal of Spatial Development, (2014-)
    
  • Region: Economics and Sociology (Novosibirsk) (2016-)

She is a member of the Board of IGU Commission on Geography of Governance

Presentation of more than 80 lectures in International Conferences

Foreign scholarships: Germany -University of Tubingen, Austria,- Collegium Hungaricum, USA,- Rutgers University, France- Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

She has conducted many domestic and international projects, participating in several Framework Programs: ESF, INTERREG, TEMPUS, UNESCO, EC DG Regio.

She has been involved in Official Think Tanks depending on the Hungarian Government, Council of Europe, and Soros Foundation.

She is an alternate member of Group of Independent Experts on The European Charter of Local Self-Governments, CoE