Paul Marer

Born in Hungary, immigrated to the USA in 1956. US citizen since 1961; dual US/Hungarian citizen since 2000.

M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School), concentrating on economics and business.

• Visiting Professor of International Business, China Europe International
• Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai, Sept-Dec 2004 and Nov-Dec 2006.
• Visiting Professor, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, April – July 2005.
• Twenty-five years at the Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business (1975-2000), promoted to full professor of international business.
• Appointed by President George Bush in 1990, re-appointed by President
• Clinton in 1996 and by George W. Bush in 2001, to the Board of Trustees of the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund. The Fund invests and monitors – like a private venture capitalist – the $78 million the U.S. gave to Hungary to promote private enterprise; member, Audit
• Committee (1990-2006), when the Fund, mission accomplished, went out business.
• Served as principal architect and co-director of the Hungarian- International Blue Ribbon Commission, a multi-year effort during 1989-90 to blueprint Hungary’s transformation to a market economy.
• Recruited and managed 100 experts from 11 countries and raised $ 1 million, working with Hudson Institute, Indianapolis, as a Senior Adjunct Fellow.
• Repeated invited testimony before Congressional committees. During the 1970s and 1980s, briefed members of the U.S. House and Senate and newly-appointed US ambassadors to the countries of Central and East. Europe.
• Consulting experience with the IMF, the World Bank, the UN, the OECD, USAID, Eli Lilly, Cummins Engine Co and other firms.
• Wrote or edited 20 books and 150 articles and chapters, mainly on the changing political, economic and business situation in Hungary, the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and China.
• Honorary doctorate, Budapest University of Economic Sciences (1999