Dr. Zoltán Pogátsa economist, sociologist and expert in international political economy. Associate professor at the University of West Hungary, lecturer at the Central European University, ELTE and the University of Verona and former researcher at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2013, he was awarded a Greek State Scholarship to study the Greek crisis in Athens and published a book summarising the results of his work. He lectures on topics such as the economics of European integration, international political economy, the economics of Central Europe, and EU policies. His research interests include European integration, focusing on peripheral countries.