Béla Greskovits is Professor at Central European University, Budapest. His research interests are political and social impact of leading transnational industries in Eastern Europe; politics of enlargement of the Eurozone; democratization; South American and Eastern European political and economic development, economic ideologies, and politics of policy making. Previously dr. Greskovits was Visiting Fellow at Euuropean University Institute, Florence; Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and International Policy Fellow, at CEU in Budapest.