Prof. Dr. Tamas M. Horvath

Name: Tamas M.
Surname: Horvath
Title: Dr.
Date of birth:1960
Nationality: Hungarian
E-mail: horvatht@puma.uniweb.hu

Qualification

• university professor (2003)
• dr. habil. in Economics and Management (2002)
• D.Sc. [title of the Hungarian Academy of Science] (2000)
• Ph.D. in Political and Legal Science (1992)
• MA in Political and Legal Science (1984)

Profession: lawyer, researcher, consultant in public management Positions:

• Professor of the Faculty of Political and Legal Studies of the University of Debrecen, head of Department of Financial Law and Public Management (from 2004)
• Consultant in public management and administration (from 1989)
• Professor of the Institute of Legal and Political Science of the University of Debrecen (2002–2004)
• Deputy Director General, Hungarian Institute of Public Administration (2001–2007)
• Private lawyer (1996–1998)
• Researcher, Hungarian Institute of Public Administration (1984–2001)

Experience in public management: 23 years
Main field of interest: public management, decentralization, local finance

Main comparative research projects involved

• Regulation and competition in local utilities in Central and Eastern Europe (2001–2003: Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia)
• Comparative description of new decentraization systems of East-Central European countries (Local Government and Public Service reform Initiative, Open Society Institute 1998–2000 formerly 1993–94: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary)
• Several projects of the British Know How Fund on local democracy and public servicy delivery (1995–1998)
• Local Democracy and Innovation (affiliated Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation project 1989–1994: Norway, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary)

Further experience in the former Eastern region

participation in preparing of local government regulation, financial regulation and public service act (Macedonia, 2007, 2000; Turkmenistan 2000, 2001);
consulting in different countries in West-Balkan (Serbia, 2001; Albania, 1999);

Publication activity

Appr. 120 articles, books, part of books; appr. 40 in English; Citation: appr. 350 in sum, one third in English