• 1991 - present    General Director, Institute for World Economy, Budapest
• 1996-98               Head of Strategic Task Force on Integration into the European Union
• 1989-91               The World Bank, Policy Division
• 1987-89               First Deputy Director, Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
• 1981-89               Head of Department, Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
• 1977-80               Senior Research Fellow, Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
• 1977                    Visiting Professor, San Marcos University, Lima Peru
• 1971                    Visiting Research Fellow, Kiel Institute for World Economy
• 1967-79               Research Fellow, Institute for World Economics, Budapest

• Economic integrations
• EC and Central and Eastern Europe
• East-West economic relations
• Structural changes in the world economy
• Direct capital flows and host country behaviour
• Reforming the Hungarian political economy

Books:

• Regional Integrations in the New World Economic Environment (in English 1986, in Hungarian 1980)
• The European Communities at the Crossroads (1985)
• The West German Economy and Its Adjustment to the World Economy(1986)
• International Direct Capital Flows (1989)
• International Competitiveness of CMEA countries (1987)
• The Hungarian Enterprise in the CMEA Context (1986)

Research articles:  
• about 200 in different review in Hungary, Austria, FR of Germany, Switzerland, Poland, GDR, France, Mexico etc.

• College of Europe, Bruges (1993-)
• College of Europe, Warsaw (1994-)