Biography

Krisztina Arató studied history at Eötvös Loránd University University (ELTE) in Budapest and political science at the Victoria University of Manchester, England. She wrote her PhD dissertation on the social dialogue system of the EU at Corvinus University, Budapest. She held several positions at ELTE University Faculty of Law, Institute of Political Science, where she is currently full professor. She was the president of the Hungarian Political Science Association 2015-2021. She authored and edited textbooks about the European Union: The Voyage of Europe with Boglárka Koller and the Political System of the European Union, co-edited with Boglárka Koller, both in Hungarian. and recently co-edited the volume The Political Economy of the Eurozone in Central and Eastern Europe Why In, Why Out? (Routledge, 2021). During her Jean Monnet fellowship at the Robert Schuman Centre, she is carrying out research of the consequences of Eurozone membership (and non-membership) in East Central Europe.