The NISPAcee Steering Committee decided to launch this award in memory of Alena Brunovská, one of NISPAcee’s founders and the first Chair of the NISPAcee Steering Committee. The award is a tribute to her commitment to the development of public administration education in the region of Central and Eastern Europe.
AWARD 2010
JURAJ NEMEC is professor of public finance and public management at the Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. He is also the visiting professor at the Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic, at the University in Bath, UK and at WSB Gdansk, Poland.
His main fields of interest are public economics and public finance, public administration reforms, health care policy, economics and management, public procurement. In all these areas he delivers university lectures and seminars, realizes research activities and provides consultancy and advisory services, connected dominantly with support to post/communist countries in the region.
He published as author, co-author or editor more than 250 books and professional articles in Slovak, Czech, English and other languages. He is editor in chief of the NISPAcee Journal in Public Administration and Public Policy, member of editorial boards of several other professional journals.
He co-edited two NISPAcee books on public finance and public management, translated into several language mutations.
AWARD 2009
MIRKO VINTAR is Full Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Administration in the fields of Administrative Information Systems and E-government at undergraduate and graduate level. He has been visiting professor at several European universities. His research interests are focused in particular on Informatisation of Public Administration, Document management systems, Development and implementation of e-commerce in public sector, Organisational, social and economic aspects of e-government, E-government metrics, etc. He has been author or co-author of more than hundred scientific articles in different national and international journals, monograph publications and conference proceedings. He has been chairing or co-chairing numerous working groups in particular within NISPAcee and EGPA annual conferences. He has been actively involved in founding and further development of NISPAcee, its steering committee member (1993-1998), organising its two annual conferences (Bled, 1995, Ljubljana, 2006), two Summer Schools (Portorož 1994, Prague 1997) and co-editor of several books published by NISPAcee. He has been or still is also member of several other international committees, EGPA steering committee (2000-2006), DEXA, E-gov Programme Committee and IFIP TC 13. He is also member of the national scientific counsel at Slovenian Research Agency.
He has been heading several international R&D projects under EU FP6, FP7 and TEMPUS programs and national research and development projects.
Currently Professor Mirko Vintar is a Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Administration and Head of Institute for Informatisation of Administration.
AWARD 2008
ATTILA ÁGHreceived his M.A. in philosophy and history in Budapest in 1964, and his PhD in European Sciences in Nancy (France) in 1967. He became a Full Professor in 1978. He was invited as a visiting professor to many universities and spent longer periods in Moscow, Dar es Salaam, New Delhi, Los Angeles (State University of California), Vienna and Aarhus; shorter periods e.g. in Japan, Australia and South Africa as well as at many other European universities.
In the 1980s he was the Director of the Hungarian Institute for International Relations and dealt extensively with the theory and practice of foreign affairs and policy planning. Between 1990 and 2002 he was the Head of Political Science Department at the Budapest University of Economics and the Director of the Hungarian Centre for Democracy Studies. His Centre regularly edited the Budapest Papers on Democratic Transition, later Budapest Papers on Europeanization (more than 300 entries) and from 1988 the Political Yearbook of Hungary. He has also edited four books in English on the emergence of democratic parliaments in East Central Europe. At present he is the Director of the Research Centre “Together for Europe” at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Full Professor at the Budapest Corvinus University. His major research interest is comparative politics as Europeanization and “linkage politics”, i.e. the relationship between external and domestic factors in the Central European developments. He has recently participated in the preparation and coordination of the reform of Hungarian public administration. In 2007 he became the project leader for the preparation of the Spanish, Belgian and Hungarian team presidency in the project of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office.
GYORGY JENEIis a committed educator in social science since he finished his higher education studies. Generations of students completed their studies under his pedagogical supervising during decades at the Budapest University of Economics. He is the Head of Department of Public Policy and Management Department of Corvinus University of Budapest...
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AWARD 2004
MARTIN POTUČEKBorn in Prague on 2nd September 1948. He studied philosophy, mathematics, political science and sociology at the Masaryk University in Brno. Until 1989 he worked as a researcher at the Department of Complex Modelling, Sportpropag, and later at the Institute of Social Medicine and Organisation of Health Care....
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EMILIA KANDEVA - SPIRIDONOVAJ.D. 1961, Ph.D. in Law, 1972. Habitation 1988. Professor of Administrative Law and Public Administration, and Dean of Law School, Bourgas Free University since 1996. A Director of the Centre for Administration at the Council of Ministers - a position of a deputy minister to the Prime Minister of Republic of Bulgaria at the first democratic government in 1992-93. A founder and the Director of the first MPA Program in Bulgaria....
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MICHAL KULESZA JD 1969, PhD in Law 1993, Habitation 1987. Professor at the University of Warsaw and Head of the Public Administration Dept. Also, since 2001, Professor in WSB - NLU, Nowy Sącz. His publications include more than 150 works in administrative law and public administration. His "Public Administration. General Outline" (co-author) 1998, 2nd ed. 1999 is used in Poland as the basic textbook for the University courses in public administration...
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WOLFGANG DRECHSLER has been with the University of Tartu since 1993. He was a founder of the Department of Public Administration and Social Policy in 1995, and was elected Professor and Chair of Public Administration and Government in 1996. Professor Drechsler has graduated from Bridgewater College (BA), University of Virginia (MA), University of Marburg (PhD)...
See more informationThis document provides guidelines for preparation of nominations for the Alena Brunovská Award for Teaching Excellence in Public Administration. Please follow these guidelines carefully when preparing the nomination for your institution’s candidate. If you have any questions regarding the nomination process or required background information please contact the NISPAcee Secretariat at the address given below.
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