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GÁL Zoltán

Gál Zoltán
Transdanubian Research Institute

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Curriculum Vitae

Personal data

Name : Gál Zoltán

Place and date of birth : Eger, December 21st,1967

Marital status : married, two children

Education and training

1992The Queens University, Belfast, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences — non-degree MSc.program
1993Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen — BSc., MSc. (geography-history)
1994Central European University, Budapest — M.A .
1998Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest — PhD in Geography
2003SQW & the British Know How Fund — Innovation manager
2009University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics — habilitation

Language skills

German (reads, lectures)
Russian (reads, lectures)
English (writes, reads, lectures)

Places of work and employment

1993—1996Centre for Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences Central and East-Hungarian Research Institute — HAS TMB scholarship
1994—1996University of Miskolc Faculty of Arts Department of World History — assistant lecturer
1996—1997Protestant Reformed High School in Pécs — teacher
1997—2000Centre for Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences Transdanubian Research Institute — junior research fellow
2000—Centre for Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences Transdanubian Research Institute — senior research fellow
2001—University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics Doctoral School of Regional Policy and Economics, Pécs — consultant
2001—2003University of Kaposvár Faculty of Economic Science — department's senior
2004—University of Kaposvár Faculty of Economic Science — associate professor

Teaching activities

1994—1996assistant lecturer, University of Mikolc
1998—2003visiting lecturer, University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics Department of Agriculture, Environment and Regional Economics
2001—2003department's senior, associate professor, University of Kaposvár Faculty of Economics
2001—consultant, University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics Doctoral School of Regional Policy and Economics, Pécs
2004—associate professor, University of Kaposvár Faculty of Economic Science

Scientific activity

1900—Regional Innovation Strategy in South-Transdanubia, Steering Committee, member
1992—2005Hajnal István Society of Social History, member
1998—Regional Committee of Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Pécs Committee of Environment, Settlement Science and Regional Development, member
1998—Hungarian Geographical Society, member
1998—Hungarian Academy of Sciences Section X Committee of Geographical Sciences, member
1999—Hungarian Academy of Sciences Section IX Law and Economics Committee of Regional Science, member
1999—Regional Science Association, European Section, member
2001—Regional Studies Association, member
2001—Pécs-Baranya Chamber of Commerce Committee of Innovation, member
2003—Hungarian Regional Science Association, member
2003—2005National Office for Research and Technology Regional Foresight Program, expert
2003—2004Hungarian Academy of Sciences Section X. European Commission DG Research Regional Foresight Workteam, external expert
2005—Society for the Advancement Socio-Economics, member
2006—2007ERAWATCH Project Network „Specific Analysis On the Regional Dimensions of Investment In Research” Program, expert
2008—Outsourcing and offshoring Business Services: RSA Research Network, member

Awards

1989—1993Scholarship of the Republic
1991NSSC, 2nd place
1991Scientific Award of European Hungary and Political Science Institution Foundation
1992Universitas Scholarship
1997Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, HAS, MTA
1998National Strategic Programs Award of the HAS, 2nd place
1999Junior Scientists' Award of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1999NSRB, Postdoctoral Scholarship, 2002nd place
2001—2003Bolyai János Research Scholarship
2005Eastern European Prize, The Society for the Advancement Socio-Economics
2007Scientific Award of the Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Editorial Membership

1999—2010Discussion Papers, series editor
2011—Tér és Társadalom
2011—Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Subjects taught

Spatial economy of finance ()
Regional economics of financial services (University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics Doctoral School of Regional Policy and Economics)
Economic geography of the global world and Europe ()
Regional and urban economics ()
Innovation policy and financing (College of Modern Business Sciences Székelyudvarhely)
Innovation management ()
Regional economics ()
Regional economics of services (University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics Doctoral School of Regional Policy and Economics)
Regional innovation policy and management ()
International comparative economics (University of Pécs Faculty of Arts Department of Political Sciences)
The financial geography of globalization ()

Research fields

The spatial economy of finance, the geography of finance, the role of financial services in regional and local development, the spatial econnomy of international finance, outsourcing and spatial relocation of financial services (offshoring), the geography of banking
The regional economics of innovation, regional innovation policy, the spatial aspects of innovation, the geography of innovation

Trips abroad

1991—1992study trip (TEMPUS grant) — Ireland
1998study trip — United Kingdom
1998study trip — United Kingdom
1999study trip — United States
1999study tip — Poland
1999study trip — Austria
2000study trip — Italy
2001sudy trip (TEMPUS Program) — United Kingdom
2004study trip — Ireland
2007study trip — China
2008study trip — Czech Republic
2008study trip — United Kingdom
2008study trip — United States
2009study trip — Czech Republic

Presentations

Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik — Croatia
University of the West of Scotland, Glasgow — United Kingdom
University of Maribor, Maribor — Slovenia
University, Cracow, Krakkó — Poland
Oxford University, Oxford — United Kingdom

Publications



Link to the publication list


Pénzügyi piacok a globális térben.: A válság szabdalta pénzügyi tér.(Financial markest in the global space – Crisis distorted financial space) Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2010. 780 p.

The Golden Age of Local Banking - The Hungarian Banking Network in the Early 20th Century. Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó, 2010. 202 p. (Doktori mestermunkák)
 
The role of research universities in regional innovation.: The case of Southern Transdanubia, Hungary. In: Longworth N, Osborne M (eds.) Perspectives on Learning Cities and Regions: Policy Practice and Participation. Leicester: NIACE (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education), 2010. pp. 84-106.

Gál Z. - Sass M.  Emerging new locations of business services: offshoring in Central and Eastern Europe. REGIONS MAGAZINE 274:(1) pp. 18-22. (2009)

Nemzeti pénzügyi központ nemzetközi ambíciókkal.: Budapest pénzintézeti szerepköre a 19-20. század fordulóján. (National financial centre with international aspirations: Financial centre functions of Budapest at the turn of the 19 and 20th centuries) In: Barta Gy, Keresztély K, Sipos A (eds.) A "világváros" Budapest két századfordulón. (Budapest, the world city at  the two centuries turn) Budapest: Napvilág Kiadó, 2010. pp. 87-118.

Miért nem lett Budapest a kelet-közép-európai régió pénzügyi központja?: Budapest pénzintézeti szerepköre az ezredfordulón. (Why Budapest did not become regional financial centre of Central and Eastern Europe? Financial centre functions of Budapest at the Millenium) In: Barta Gy, Keresztély K, Sipos A (eds.) A "világváros" Budapest két századfordulón. . (Budapest, the world city at  the two centuries turn) Budapest: Napvilág Kiadó, 2010. pp. 137-165.
 
The Danube region - past, present and future prospect of transnational co-operation as a playground of the European integration. EUROLIMES 7: pp. 148-158. (2009)

The role of universities in regional innovation networks in Hungary.In: Pálné Kovács I (ed.) Regional Decentralization in Central and Eastern Europe.Pécs: University of Pécs Department of Political Studies, 2007. pp. 163-184. (Political Studies of Pécs; 4.)

Regional dimension of investment in research – the case of the Southern Transdanubian knowledge base. In: Milford S, Tarrósy I (ed.)
European Higher Education in a Changing World. – a View from the Danube Region. The Future of Europe – the View from the Danube Region: 4th DRC (Danube Rectors’ Conference) Summer School on Regional Co-operation). Pécs, Hungary, 22/Jul/2007-29/Jul/2007. (IDResearch Ltd - The Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe) Vienna: Publikon Books, pp. 23-37.

The Development and the Polarised Spatian Structure of the Hungarian Banking System in a Transforming Economy.In: Barta Gy, G. Fekete É, Szörényiné Kukorelli I, Timár J (eds.) Hungarian Spaces and Places: Patterns of Transition. Pécs: Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2005. pp. 197-219.(ISBN:963 9052 46 9)

The „golden age of the local-regional banking”.: the spatial structure of the Hungarian banking system at the turn of the 19/20th century. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR BANKING AND FINANCIAL HISTORY BULLETIN 2: pp. 19-30. (2005)

A new tool for economic growth.: role of innovation in the transformation and regional development of Hungary. GEOGRAPHIA POLONICA 78:(2) pp. 31-52. (2005)
 
Spatial Development and the Expanding European Integration of The Hungarian Banking System, Pécs: Centre for Regional Studies, 2004. 75 p. (Discussion Papers No. 45).

Gál Zoltán (ed.): Discussion Papers, 45. Pécs: Centre for Regional Studies, 2004. 75 p.

„The Banking Functions of the Hungarian Urban Network in the Early 20th Century. Pécs: Centre for Regional Studies of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2006. pp.69 (Discussion Papers, no. 55.)

Challenges of regionalism: development and spatial structure of the Hungarian banking system. In.: Geographia Polonica, Vol 73. No.1. Spring 2000. pp. 95-125. 

The Hungarian Banking Sector and Regional Development in Transition., In: Regional Processes and Spatial Structures in Hungary in the 1990s, (ed. Zoltán Hajdú ), HAS,Transdanubian Research Institute, 1999. pp. 180-221

Preconditions for Regional Innovation Network Building in the Hungarian Region of South Transdanubia, In.: A. Varga – L. Szerb (eds.), Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Regions and Economic Development: International Experiences and Hungarian Challenges, University of Pécs, Pécs, pp.265-295.

Regional Innovation Network Building In South Transdanubia, In.: European Challenges, 2003. University of Szeged, Faculty of Food Science, pp.445-453.

The Danube (Danube region and its economic history from dawn to present), Danube. In: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Vol. 2. Ed.: J. Mokyr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 65-66. p.

Bruchlinien in der Region Donautal: die Rolle der Donau in der ittelsödosteuropaischen historischen und Raumenwicklung. In.: 2000 Jahre entlang der Donau. Aus der gemeinsamen Vergangenheit in die gemeinsame EU-Zukunft. Srifliche Fassung der Studien Vortrage der internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz „Ausschnitte aus der Gesichte entlang der Donau”, Pécs/Fünfkirchen, 16-19.Mai 2002., Pécs 2003. pp. 295-325.