Ágnes Szunomár

Personal details

Position: senior research fellow, head of Research Group on Development Economics
Place of birth: Budapest
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Fields of research

Chinese economy
Chinese foreign policy and international trade and investment policy
China and Central and Eastern Europe
Chinese-Hungarian relations
Foreign direct investments and its motivations in the developing world
Middle income trap

Education and degrees

2013	Ph.D. in Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest -Budapest, Hungary
2006 - 2012	Corvinus University of Budapest -Budapest, Hungary International Relations Doctoral Programme
2004 - 2006	Corvinus University of Budapest -Budapest, Hungary International Studies (MA)
2002 - 2007	Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Faculty of Law- Budapest, Hungary Politology (MA)
2000 - 2004	Budapest College of Management -Budapest, Hungary International Relations (BA)

Work experience

2019 - 2016 - 2018	Corvinus University of Budapest assistant professor European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES) scientific secretary
2014 -	Centre for Economic and Regional Studies HAS, Institute of World Economics head of Research Group on Development Economics
2012	European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) - Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) expert evaluator of proposals
2011 -	Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences research fellow
2010 - 2011	Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences junior research fellow
2004 - 2010	Secretariat of the Government Commissioner for the Development of Hungarian-Chinese Economic Relations and for the Coordination of the Participation at Shanghai World EXPO in 2010 consultant
2007 - 2008	Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences research project coordinator
2004 - 2005	Hungarian National Assembly - Office for Foreign Relations, EU Departmentinternship

Awards, fellowships

2015 2018-2021	SYLFF (Sasakawa) Fellowship HAS-BOLYAI Fellowship

Language skills

English fluent
German advanced
Chinese basic

Selected publications

MTMT link: Link to MTMT website

Ágnes Szunomár (2018): One Belt, One Road: Connecting China with Central and Eastern Europe? In: Cheng Y, Song L, Huang L (szerk.) The Belt & Road Initiative in the Global Arena: Chinese and European Perspectives. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. pp. 71-85.

Ágnes Szunomár, Agnieszka Mccaleb, Xin Chen (2018): Economic Relations between China and Central and Eastern Europe: Trade and Investment Issues. In: Weiqing Song (szerk.) China's relations with Central and Eastern Europe: from "old comrades" to new partners. London: Routledge, 2017. pp. 48-65.

Ágnes Szunomár (2016): The characteristics, changing patterns and motivations of Chinese investment in Europe. In: Shada Islam (ed.) EU-China relations: new directions, new priorities. Brussels: Friends of Europe, 2016. pp. 73-76.

Ágnes Szunomár (2015): Blowing from the East. International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, Vol. XXIV, No. 3/2015, pp. 60-78

Andrea Éltető, Ágnes Szunomár (2015): Trade and investment between the Visegrad and East Asian countries with a special emphasis on China and Hungary. In: Antal J (szerk.) Small states - big challenges: the experience of the EU and Visegrad region. Prága: Nakladatelství Oeconomica , 2015. pp. 79-95.

Ágnes Szunomár (ed.) (2014): Chinese investments and financial engagement in Visegrad countries: myth or reality? Budapest: Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 178 p.

Ágnes Szunomár, Katalin Völgyi, Tamás Matura (2014): Chinese investments and financial engagement in Hungary. Budapest: Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 24 p. (IWE Working Papers; 208.)

Ágnes Szunomár (2014): China’s relations with the developing world: a new type of colonialism or a fruitful cooperation. In: Agnieszka McCaleb (ed.): China’s Changing Competitiveness: Shaking up or Waking up the European Union? Warsaw: Warsaw School of Economics Press, p. 85-110.

Ágnes Szunomár (2012): Kínai külpolitika, kínai hatalmi politika: folyamatosság és változás., Külügyi Szemle, 2012/2. szám, pp. 125-142.

Ágnes Szunomár (2011): A magyar-kínai gazdasági kapcsolatok új szakasza: eredmények és várakozások. Külgazdaság, LV. évfolyam, 2011. november-december, pp. 67-85.