Akos Valentinyi

Akos Valentinyi is Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Manchester, a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Previously, he has been taught at University of Southampton, and Cardiff Business School. He also has been the Head of Research at the National Bank of Hungary for two years. He is a graduate of the University of Economics in Budapest and completed his PhD studies in Economics at the European University Institute in Florence in 1997. Valentinyi’s research includes economic growth and development with recent primary focus on structural change. He has been published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies among others. He is currently the managing editor of the Manchester School.