CURRICULUM VITAE
Sociologist, author of several studies and books on minority issues (on ethnic-Germans, -Slovaks, Roma/Gypsies in Hungary, inter-ethnic relations). Content-editor of minority-related books, former content-editor of the Internet-site of the governmental Office for National and Ethnic Minorities in Hungary and former special advisor of it.
Education:
University degree in Social Sciences, PhD academic degree of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Special exams of employee in public administration. Further, I accomplished a 2 years highschool of Art in 1986 in Kolozsvar, Romania. Since that I realized about 200 oil paintings, and exhibited them, lately in 2007 in Zebegeny, or in 2008 in Budapest.
I have a strong personal minority background.
Career history:
- 1966-1986: scientific researcher, doing sociological research (data collection, interviews, conferences, studies, mainly on mass-media, youth) at the Romanian Academy of Sciences, later Centre of Social Sciences, University of Sciences Babes-Bolyai, Kolozsvár.
- 1986-1989: researcher on minority issues at the Gorki State Library (at present State Library of Foreign Languages), Budapest.
- 1990-1993: I organized and did sociological research on minorities for local government units, like the county Komárom-Esztergom, or the Mayor's Office of Capital City Budapest. The results were published in books and reviews.
- 1993-1996: employed in local government (the Mayor's Office in District X. of Budapest), being there the head of the Department for Human Rights and Minorities, later international liaisons officer.
- 1996 – 2001 employee of the governmental Office for National and Ethnic Minorities, Budapest, heading the special department for Research, Information, Documentation, Analysis, as special advisor.
- During all these years I participated at several international conferences, workshops, (i.e. in 1997. at the EC PHARE and CE Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe; Joint conference Slovenia/Brdo), held lectures (i.e. at the East-West Conference in Wolverhampton, 1995., in Maribor/Postarski Dom, 1995.) I have been the Hungarian project-co-ordinator of a long termed ECOS/PHARE INTERREG co-operation between U.K., Spain and Hungary on the topic Multi-Ethnic Living at Local Level”, member in the International Board of conference-organizers. I organized regular workshops on minority issues for Minorities' Self-governments and researchers.
- Experienced in press relations, I am a member of the Association of Hungarian Journalists, affiliated to the International Federation of Journalists. I developped and set up the website of the Office for National and Ethnic Minorities (http://www.meh.hu/nekh, being the content-editor of it from its start in 1998 until 2001.
References:
As regards my publications see the annexed List of research papers, and the references in:
- Bibliographisches Handbuch der Etnischen Gruppen Südosteuropas, Hrsg. G. Seewann und P. Dippold, R. Oldenbourg V. München,1997. Band 1., Alphabetisches Register nr. 4175, 4337, 4338, 4841, 5736, 5935, 5938.
- the Hungarian Who’s Who – (Ki Kicsoda Lexikon, vol. I)
- the Hungarian Révai Új Lexikona, Bp., 2.000, vol. 5.
- Who is Who In Hungary, Hübners, CH, 2007
- Negru Andrei: Bibliografia lucrarilor stiintifice 1969-2009. Cap. Sociologie, p. 229-231. Academia Romana. Institutul de Istorie, Departementul de Cercetari socio-umane. Cluj-Napoca, Edituria Argonaut, 2009. 250 p.
Language skills. Good working: English, French, Romanian. Working German (understand it well, speak simply). Limited knowledge of Russian (understand, speak simply). Mother tongue: Hungarian.
Computer skills: good knowledge of and experience in utilizing computers, word processing software, email-system, Internet applications.
2011, Budapest
