BIOGRAPHY
Norbert’s fields of study include economic strategy, geostrategy, geoeconomics, and geopolitics
- Former State Secretary in charge of planning coordination for the Hungarian Ministry for National Economy
- Former Executive Director of the Central Bank of Hungary
- President of the Board of Trustees of Pallas Athene Domus Meriti Foundation (Innovation and Geopolitics)
- President of the Board of Trustees of John von Neumann University Foundation.
- President of the International Advisory Board of BC4LS (Budapest Center for Long-Term Sustainability)
- Member of the International Advisory Board of the Fudan Institute of Belt and Road & Global Governance, Shanghai – China
- Independent Director of the Bank of China Hungary.
- Chief Editor of the Hungarian Geopolitics (HUG) magazine.
- Co-chair of the Geopolitical Department of the Hungarian Geographical Society
INTERNATIONAL TALKS DELIVERED
Large Events and Forums
- Shanghai Forum (2018, 2022, 2023)
- Belt and Road and Global Governance Forum – Shanghai (2018-2022)
- Young Global Thinkers Forum - Shanghai (2018)
- Boao Forum Hainan Island: China and EU connections panelist – (2023)
- Eurasia Forum Budapest (2019-2022)
- Singapore World City Summit (2022)
- First Asia-Europe Connectivity Forum – Cambodia (2021) panelist
- Tel Aviv Axis Innovation and Technology Conference – Israel (2023)
- BC4LS Talks - Geofusion, the importance of geography, and the relationship between complexity, connectivity, and sustainability
- TEDxMetropolitanUniversityBudapest (2020)
Conference speaker
- Future of Smart Cities Conference – Singapore (2020)
- Asia-Europe Sustainable Connectivity Scientific Conference – Singapore (2017)
- RSA Australasia 2019 - Regional Studies Association (New Zealand)
- Future Education and Development Conference (People for Tomorrow Organisation Bangkok and Bali - 2018, 2019, 2020
- AAG - American Association of Geographers Conference (San Francisco, Boston, New Orleans: 2016, 2017, 2018)
- Education and Design Conference (AMPS: Architecture, Media, Politics and Society) – New York, USA (2019)
- Claremont Eco Forum – International Dialogue for a Better World (2021, 2022, 2023)
- Conference on Interdisciplinary Business & Economics Research (2019, 2022) – Seoul, South Korea
- Eco-Civilization Forum and Conference – Jeyou – South Korea (2018)
- Regional Studies Association (RSA) – Dublin, Trinity College (2018)
- EUGEO (European Geography Association Conference) - Vision and strategy for a new geography – keynote (2015)
- EUGEO Bruxelles, Belgium (2018)
- New Geography Conference – Paris, France (2019)
- AITINER - Annual International Conference on Geography, Athens, Greece (2018, 2019)
- Creative Society and Creative Geography – Florence, Italy (2017)
- The Future of Education International Conference Florence – Italy (2018, 2019)
- Adaptation Future - South Africa, Cape Town (2018)
- AMBA – Association of MBA – Global Conference – London, Budapest (2020), Business School Leader Forum
- WCSA: World Complexity Science Academy – The Connectivity and Sustainability - Bruxelles, Belgium (2023)
- Belt and Road Forum, New World Order Conference Budapest (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
- Sharjah Research, Innovation and Technology Parc business event meeting, Sharjah (EAE) - The future of geography, geopolitics and innovation (2022)
GEOLECTURES – University Lectures
- Shanghai Fudan University – Shanghai, China (2017, 2019)
- Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok Thailand (2022)
- Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand (2022)
- Thai Diplomacy Academy, Bangkok, Thailand (2022)
- Chiang Mai University – Geography Department, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2019)
- National University of Singapore (NUS) – Singapore (2017)
- NUS LKYPS – Lee Kuan Public School – Singapore (2018. March)
- ASEF – Asia-Europe Foundation, Singapore (2018, 2021, 2023)
- GRIPS – Tokyo, Japan (2018)
- Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (2018)
- Hebrew University, Jerusalem (2018)
- Beer Seva University, Israel (2018)
- Sharjah American University – Sharjah, UAE (2023)
CONTACT
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