The Academic Advisory Board

Current and Former Members, Autumn 2009

The Academic Advisory Board advises the Rector on all academic matters. The Rector discusses with the Board a high proportion of academic considerations, particularly the recommendations needed for Fellows' appointment. The Board consists of a) at least nine but no more than 15 internationally recognized academics, elected - on the Rector's suggestion - for a period of three years by the Members' Assembly and with the possibility of immediate re-election, b) up to three persons elected by the Members' Assembly from within the group, whose terms of office are fixed by the Members' Assembly.

Georges Duby, the great French historian (1919-1996), was the Board's first chairman for the first four years. After his death, he was followed by Heinrich Ursprung, former Swiss State Secretary for Science and Research, President of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich and a biologist by education. Between 1999 and 2003, the present Chair of the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) and former Permanent Fellow of Collegium Budapest, Helga Nowotny, Professor emeritus of Professor of Philosophy and Social Studies of Science at ETH Zürich, and Director of Collegium Helveticum, headed the Board. Between 2003 and 2006 this position had been filled by Jacques Revel, former President of and Professor of History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Since May 2006, Tim Crane, Professor of Philosophy at the University of London, has been chairing the board.

The list of current and former Board members given below illustrates how board exemplifies highest academic standards in the international academic community. The Board meets each November to consider the applications and make recommendations to the Rector. Between two meetings, the Collegium regularly sends incoming applications to the Board members, who evaluate and return them with comments and recommendations.

Chairperson:

Crane, Tim
Professor of Philosophy
University of Cambridge, United Kindgom
Member as of 2005, Chair as of 2006

Members:

Blockmans, Wim
Professor of History
Leiden University, Rector of Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and Humanities (NIAS), Wassenaar, The Netherlands
2001 -

Dávidházi, Péter
Professor of Literature
Institute of Literary Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2006-

Fantoni, Stefano
Professor of Physics
Director of S.I.S.S.A./I.S.A.S. the International School for Advanced Studies, Triest, Italy
2005 -

Hervieu-Léger, Daniéle
Directeur de recherche in Sociology of Religions at EHESS, Paris, France
2005 -

Jablonka, Eva
Professor of Biology and History of Science
Tel-Aviv University, Israel
2005 -

Klein, Georg
Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 -

Kocka, Jürgen
Professor of History
Free University, Berlin, Former President of the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, Germany
2006 -

Król, Marcin
Professor of Political Philosophy, Dean
Department of Applied Social Sciences, Warsaw University, Poland
2008 -

Oroveanu, Anca
Professor of Art History
National University of Arts, Bucharest
Scientific Director of the New Europe College (NEC), Bucharest, Romania
2005 -

Rothstein, Bo
Professor of Political Science
Göteborg University, Sweden
2005 -

Sigmund, Karl
Professor of Mathematics
University of Vienna, Austria
2005 -

Szász, Domokos
Professor of Mathematics
Institute of Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
2007 -

Former Members:

Altermatt, Urs
Professor of History
University of Fribourg
1999 - 2005

Andorka, Rudolf
Professor of Sociology
Rector of the Budapest University of Economics
1992 - 1996

Aymard, Maurice
Professor of History
Administrateur, Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Paris
1995 - 1999

Bierwisch, Manfred
Professor of Linguistics
Humboldt Universität, Berlin
Corresponding member of the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
1992 - 1995

Brézin, Edouard
Professor of Physics
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
2002 - 2005

Changeux, Jean-Pierre
Professor of Biology
College de France, Institut Pasteur, Paris
1997 - 2003

Csáky, Moritz
Professor of Modern History and Hungarian History
University of Vienna and Graz
Founding Director of the Internationales Forschungszentrum für Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna
1992 - 1995

Dasgupta, Partha S.
Professor of Economics
St. John`s College, University of Cambridge
1999 - 2002

Duby, Georges
Professor of History
College de France, Paris
Member of the Académie Française
First Chairperson of the Academic Advisory Board
1992 - 1996

Elkana, Yehuda
Professor of History of Science
Tel Aviv University, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich;
since September´99 Rector of the Central European University, Budapest
First Vice-Chairperson of the Academic Advisory Board
1992 - 1999

Fischer-Lichte, Erika
Professor of Theater Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
1999 - 2005

Gavrilov Alexander
Professor of Ancient Philology
Bibliotheca Classica Petropolitana, St. Petersburg
1997 - 2000

Gieysztor, Aleksander
Professor of History
former President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw,
former Director of the Warsaw Castle
1992 - 1998

Granasztói, György
Professor of History
Institute for Central European Studies, Budapest
1992 - 2002

Hann, Chris
Professor of Anthropology
Director of the Max-Planck Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Halle
1999 - 2002

Hannerz, Ulf
Professor of Anthropology
University of Stockholm
1995 - 1999

Hausner, Jerzy
Professor of Political Science
Economic Academy Cracow
1999 - 2002

Heller, Ágnes
Professor of Philosophy
New School for Social Research
2000 - 2002

Holmes, Stephen
Professor of Political Science and Law
University of Chicago
1992 - 1997

Kaase, Max
Professor of Political Science
Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung zu Berlin
Member of the European Science Foundation
1992 - 1999

Kroó, Norbert
Professor of Pysics
Vice-President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Member of the European Science Foundation
2001 - 2007

Landesmann, Michael
Professor of Economics
University of Linz,
Director of the Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies
1995 - 1999

Malinvaud, Edmond
Professor of Economic Analysis
College de France
former President of the Bureau Statistique, Paris
1992 - 1995

Marosi, Ernõ
Professor of Art History
Director of the Institute of Art History of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
1997 - 2000

Márkus, György
Professor of Philosophy
University of Sydney
1997 - 2000

Martinotti, Guido
Professor of Sociology
University of Milan
1999 - 2001

Nowotny, Helga
Professor of Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
at ETH Zürich (1996-2003)
Director of Collegium Helveticum (1998-2002)
Director of the post-doctorate Fellowship programme
'Society in Science: The Branco Weiss Fellowship' (2002-2004)
Former Permanent Fellow of Collegium Budapest
Former Chairperson of the Academic Advisory Board
Current President of EURAB
1999 - 2004

Penrose, Sir Roger
Professor of Mathematics
Institute of Mathematics, Oxford
1997 - 2002

Plesu, Andrei
Professor of Philosophy and Religion
University of Bucharest,
Former Rector of New Europe College, Bucharest
1995 - 1997, 200-2005

Pravda, Alex
Lecturer in Eastern European Politics
Oxford University, Fellow of St. Anthony?s College, Oxford
1995 - 1997

Prazák, Richard
Professor of History of Literature
University of Brno,
former Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the Republic of Hungary
1992 - 1997

Rees, Sir Martin
Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
Cambridge University, UK
1995 - 1997

Revel, Jacques
Professor of History at the
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
2003 - 2006

Settis, Salvatore
Professor of Art History
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
2001 - 2004

Sinai, Yasha G.
Professor of Mathematics
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Princeton University, NJ
1992 - 1995

Szelényi, Iván
Professor of Sociology
University of Yale
2002 - 2005

Sztompka, Piotr
Professor of Sociology
University of Cracow, Poland
2004 - 2007

Ursprung, Heinrich
Professor of Biology
former Secretary of State for Science and Research Swiss Confederation Department of the Interior, Bern
Second Chairperson of the Academic Advisory Board
1992 - 1999

Vékás, Lajos
(Vice-Chairperson)
Professor of Law
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
1997 - 2003

Vida, Gábor
Professor of Biology
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
1992 - 1997

Wesseling, Hendrik L.
Professor of History
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar
2000 - 2002

Wittrock, Björn
Professor of Political Science
The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala
1999 - 2005