!!Ivan Berend- Curriculum Vitae
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__EDUCATION__
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*1962                Habilitation (second, Academy) degree, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
*1958                Ph.D. in History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
*1957                Doctor degree in Economics, Budapest University of Economics
*1949-1953       M.A. in Economics and History, Summa cum Laude, Budapest University of Economics and Faculty of Philosophy, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest 
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__EXPERIENCE__
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*2008-10           European Studies IDP, Chair
*2005-08                       Committee on Academic Personnal (CAP) UCLA, Member.
*1993- 2005      University of California Los Angeles, Center for European and Eurasian Studies,
                        Director
*1990-               University of California, Los Angeles, Department of History, Distinguished Professor
*1985-1990       Hungarian Academy of Sciences, President
*1975-1982       Hungarian Historical Association, President
*1973-1979       Budapest University of Economics, Rector
*1953-1991       Budapest University of Economics, Department of Economic History,
*1964-1991  Professor
*1960-1964  Associate Professor
*1953-1960  Assistant Professor
*1993                St. Anthony's College, Oxford, Senior visiting fellow
*1982-1983       Woodrow Wilson International Center of Scholars, Washington D.C., Fellow
*1980                All Souls College, Oxford, Fellow
*1978                University of California, Berkeley, Visiting Professor
*1972-1973       St. Anthony's College, Oxford, Fellow
*1966-1967       Columbia University, New York, Ford-Fellow
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Lectured intensively at German, American, British, Japanese, Israeli, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Indian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Austrian, Canadian and other universities.
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__SPECIAL LECTURES:__
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*Keynote speaker at the international symposium at Chiba University, Japan on the Historical legacy of Socialism in Eastern Europe, December 2003.
*Participant of the opening panel at the 19th International Congress of History, Oslo, Norway, August 2000.
*Keynote address at the meeting of the United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, May 2000
*"Festvortrag" at the special session of the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft, Munich, November 1995
*Participant of the opening panel at the 18th International Congress of History, Montreal, Canada, 1995
*Suntory-Toyota Lecture at the London School of Economics, 1993
*Guest Speaker at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 1991
*Guest Speaker at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 1990
*Central Lecture of the General Assembly of the Royal Belgien Academy of Sciences in 1990
*Opening lecture of the festive General Assembly of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1990
*Panglaykim Memorial Lecture in Djakarta in 1990
*Ellen MacArthur Lectures at Cambridge University, Britain, 1984
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__INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES__
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*1995-2000 International Committee of Historical Sciences, President,    
*1990-95 First Vice President
*2000-05 “member conseiller” of the Bureau
*1988-1990 George Soros-Hungarian Academy Foundation, Co-Chairman
*1986-1994  International Economic History Association, Vice-President
*1987-   Institute of East-West Studies, New York
*1987-1990 Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors
*1990-1994 Director
*1994-     Honorary Chairman Emeritus
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__HONORS__
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*2000    Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft, Germany, Jirasek Gold Medal for life achievement in the research of Central and Eastern European history
*1996                Honorary member of the Portuguese Association of International Relations
*1995    Honorary doctor of Janus Pannonius University, Hungary
*1990    Honorary doctor of Glasgow University
*1989    Corresponding member of the British Academy
*1989    Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy
*1989    Corresponding member of the Sudosteuropa-Gesellschaft
*1989    Member of the Academia Europaea
*1988    Honorary member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
*1988    Honorary member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
*1986    Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities
*1984    Honorary doctor of St. John's University, New York
*1980    Corresponding member of the Royal Historical Society
*1973    Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences(corresponding,1973; full member,1979)
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__RESEARCH FIELD__
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 19-20th centuries, social and economic history of Europe, including contemporary Europe; Central and Eastern Europe; economic modernization, problems of European backwardness; complex - economic, social, ideological, and cultural - history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th-20th Century; post-World War II economic problems of Central and Eastern Europe; social, economic and political problems of the region. Transition from state socialism to capitalism.
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__OTHERS__
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*Advisory Body of the Hungarian Government, 2005-10, member
*Consultant, US State Department (occasionally: 1996; 2004)
*From the mid-sixties involved in economic reform work in Hungary and served in different advisory bodies.
*Head of the working committee on transition toward market economy in Hungary (1988-89).
*President of the Advisory Body of the Prime Minister of Hungary (1989-90)
*Member of the Blue Ribbon Commission on privatization and marketization of Hungary (1989-93).
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