CSABA GÁBOR POGONYI PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE July 2016 – present Imperial College London PhD student, Railway and Transport Strategy Centre
January 2014 – present MOL Oil and Gas PLC Economist, Chief Economist team
MOL is a FORTUNE500 integrated oil and gas group which is listed on the Euronext, Warsaw and Budapest stock exchanges. As an economist, I am conducting research on energy industry trends: oil market developments, gas and electricity prices, development of new technologies. In addition, I am also providing updates on global and European macroeconomic developments. I am the editor and a regular writer for the energy blogs Guruló Hordó (in Dob utca 49 1/3 Hungarian) and Barrelperday.com (in English) Budapest, 1074 Hungary June 2013 – September 2013 Infrapont Economic Consulting Research Analyst +36 20 588 0812 Infrapont engages in market regulation of network industries and competition policy consulting. As a research assistant I was taking part in competition policy consulting. [email protected]
March 2011 – May 2013 HÉTFA Research Institute csabapogonyi.wordpress.com Economist, part-time
HÉTFA is preparing regional development projects for Hungarian clients. In addition to engaging in day-to-day policy consulting, I co-authored an article on the theoretical base of regional competitiveness and worked for half a year for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences where I analyzed the results of the Hungarian labor survey.
April 2011 - October 2011 John von Neumann Award Chief editor
I was the editor and co-writer of the book in honor to Prof. Joshua Angrist (MIT), published by the Rajk László College for Advanced Studies.
EDUCATION 2012 – 2014 Central European University Economic Policy in Global Markets MA Completed with Distinction
Thesis: Unemployment and Public Transportation – Evidence from Hungarian Municipalities
2008-2012 Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Applied Economics BA Completed with grade ’excellent’
Thesis: Rail Passenger Demand – price elasticity in the Budapest Suburban Area
2009-2014 Rajk László College for Advanced Studies Rajk László college is an education institution offering accomodation as well as advanced courses in the fields of economics and social sciences. It is the oldest existing institution of the kind in Hungary, taken as a model to later colleges. I was engaging in extracurricular courses (see detailed below) and volunteering. In addition, I organised several workshops and conferences in the fields of economics.
AWARDS April 2013 1st place on the Hungarian Student Scientific Conference (OTDK) „Gasoline retail market in Budapest: pricing and spatial structure” Modeling the behavior of drivers to changes in the price of gasoline, co-authored with Peter Lánczi
April 2012 Concorde Excellent Individual Work scholarship „State of the Art Achievements with an 800 Years Old Policy Rule” Awarded for the article written for the book in honor to Prof. Joshua Angrist, published by the Rajk László College for Advanced Studies (both in English and Hungarian)
April 2012 3rd place on the ELTE Student Scientific Conference (TDK) „Rail passenger demand – price elasticity in the Budapest Suburban Area” Modeling passenger volumes and testing the effects of investments using econometric methods (both in English and Hungarian)
September 2010 – March 2011 Erasmus scholarship at the Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, Germany Studying Behavioral Economics and modeling the evolution of protests and revolutions
PUBLICATIONS „Possibilities in regional transport system in and around the city of Szeged” policy paper co-authored with Eszter Rékasi and András Hann Rajk-CEU-Eltecon Paper Contest in 2014 (in Hungarian)
„Gasoline retail market in Budapest: pricing and spatial structure” co-authored with Peter Lánczi 1st place in Regional Economics II Section in 2013 (in Hungarian)
„Rail passenger demand – price elasticity in the Budapest Suburban Area” 3rd place at ELTE Scientific Conference in 2012 (both in English and Hungarian)
„Analytical framework to study competitiveness of communities” co-authored with Balázs Szepesi in 2011, HÉTFA Research Institute (in Hungarian)
TRANSLATIONS Esther Duflo: Poverty alleviation – step by step brochure with a selection of works by the Rajk László College for Advanced Studies in 2014
Olivier Blanchard: Boundless Expectations brochure with a selection of works published by the Rajk László College in 2011
Joshua Angrist: Instruments for Dummies brochure with a selection of works published by the Rajk László College in 2011
Tim Besley: Principled Agents? – The Political Economics of Good Government Oxford University Press, 2007 – translated by the Rajk László College for Advanced Studies in 2010
CONFERENCES June 2015 PIRA Scenario Planning workshop and Retainer Conference London, United Kingdom
May 2013 Eurasia Business and Economic Society 10th EBES Conference Istanbul, Turkey
March 2013 Central European Conference Organizer of section “Public vs Private Schooling” Eger, Hungary
March 2011 Central European Conference Organizer of section “Long-term effects of Socialism” Esztergom, Hungary
ARTICLES ON ENERGY The solar revolution – Barrelperday.com Prepare for the global gas tsunami – Barrelperday.com This is why more Russian gas is a bad idea – Barrelperday.com Falling barrels: why oil prices are down 25%? – Barrelperday.com Is there a connection between Putin’s facelift and the invasion of Crimea? – Barrelperday.com
ADDITIONAL COURSES TAKEN Advanced Econometrics (Prof. Balázs Muraközy, Rajk László College) Transport Economics (Dániel Hörcher, Rajk László College) The Hungarian National Railway company (Phd. Balázs Édes, Rajk László College) Quantitative Political Economy (Prof. Gábor Tóka, Rajk László College) International Relations (Phd. Eszter Balázs, Rajk László College) Public Policy (Prof. Balázs Váradi, Rajk László College) Educational Economics (Prof. Zoltán Hermann, Rajk László College) Maps and the Geospatial Revolution (Dr. Anthony C. Robinson, PennState – Coursera online course) Vácegres social fieldwork project (Prof. Éva Kovács, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) SKILLS Languages: Hungarian, native; English, fluent written and spoken (TOEFL 107 points); German, fluent written and spoken; Russian, conversational Computers: R, Stata, QGIS, Eviews, LaTeX, Bloomberg terminal, typewriting
INTERESTS Professional: Transport and spatial economics, energy and innovation, market regulation, competition policy, economics of education and labor, development economics Personal: blogging, twitter, volunteering, hiking, geocaching, languages