Education
Budapest Business School of the University of Applied Sciences
Second Degree in Management (Faculty of Foreign Trade)
Summa Cum Laude (t.d.)Dipl. No:10/1997
The Budapest Business School founded in 1857 is officially recognized as the oldest public business school in the world, and second oldest among business schools, only preceded by the ESCP Europe located in Paris, France founded in 1818. The Budapest Business School is older than the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, USA established only in 1881.
Main Building of the Budapest Business School
University of Sciences of Szeged
B.A. in English with minor studies in the Portuguese language.
Summa Cum Laude (t.d.) Dipl. No:677/1995
The University of Sciences of Szeged, Hungary is ranked as a top 100 university in the area of sciences and is among the 101st -150th universities globally in the domain of Modern Languages. The university has produced several Nobel laureates.
Video on the University of Szeged
Languages
I was born in Hungary into a polyglot historic family (blog in Spanish) and spent a substantial part of my childhood and formative years in the Middle East and Latin America. Three years experience as a government level Hungarian - English - Spanish interpreter. High-level state language certificates in Spanish and English. TOEFL score of 667 (100%). My Pan-European family is partly Austrian and German.
Hungarian
Native or bilingual proficiency
Spanish
Native or bilingual proficiency
English
Full professional proficiency
Portuguese
Working professional proficiency
German
Businessfluent - Verhandlungssicher -
Certifications and Courses
Continous learning at tier one universities
I firmly believe in continuous learning. Nowadays it is possible to attend global tier-one universities on the internet for free. I am particularly fond of the Coursera and edEX platforms. Completed the first ten-week long course at Wharton in September 2014. MGIMO is among the first three schools of government and diplomacy in the world, along with the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the USA, and the Sciences Po in Paris, France.
I have a general work-related interest in the extensive MGIMO online materials , such as the German language lecture series delivered by Prof. Irina Busygina entitled "Föderalismus und politischer Regionalismus in der Europäische Union und in Westeuropäischen Staaten (eine vergleichstudie)", or the Spanish language briefing of his Excellency Hugo García the Venezuelan Ambassador accredited to Moscow. Click on clear blue links below.
Awards
Calouste Gulbenkian Scholar, Lisbon Portugal
I was one of the 2 recipients in 1995 in Hungary of the prestigious Calouste Gulbenkian Scholarship in connection with my Portuguese language studies conducted at the University of Sciences of Szeged.
In the realm of Portuguese speaking countries, the Gulbenkian Scholarship is comparable to the Fulbright Scholarship.
Organizations and Affiliations
Additional Information.
WAIS score of 138 which corresponds to a score of 141 on the Stanford Binet scale.
Started to work for the Hungarian Government at the age of 17 as a consecutive multilingual interpreter.
Cooperated out of moral conviction with University of Berkeley (California, USA) Professor, Ex European Central Banker Dr. Bernard Lietaer (originally from Belgium) who is one of the main architects of the European common currency ECU-EURO, and other European and American academics to implement complementary currency systems to mitigate the current financial crisis.