Currently, I serve as Rector of International Business School in Budapest, Hungary and Vienna, Austria. In this role I have restructured and revitalized, both in financial and academic terms, this private higher education institution that offers, among others, undergraduate and graduate degrees awarded by The University of Buckingham. Prior to joining IBS in 2001, I was engaged in retail and corporate banking, including as CEO and Chairman at Central Wechsel- und Credit Bank AG, Austria. I served as a Board Member of several Hungarian financial institutions and earlier in my career also conducted extensive research for the Institute for World Economy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Institute for International Affairs in Budapest and for the Institute for East-West Security Studies in New York.