Zoltán Illés

Working Experience:

• Hungary’s state minister of environmental protection, nature conservation and water management.
• Member of the Hungarian Parliament for three terms and Chairman of the Committee on Sustainablity and Environment. 
• Expert consultant of European Economic and Social Committee on several environmental issues as well as impact on digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence on Environment. 
• Adjunct Professor at the Gödöllõ University of Agricultural Sciences (Hungary)
• Post-Doctor Associate at Yale University (1987-89)
• Former Research Scientist at the Institute of Plant Protection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• former Advisor on Central European environmental issues at the World Bank in Washington D.C.
• Senior Scientific Advisor to the Director of the Hungarian Institute for Environmental Management (1989-90)
• Former Deputy Minister of State at the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development) Hungary (1990).
• Senior Advisor to the Ambassador of the European Union in Hungary on environmental protection (1991-1994)
• Director of Hungarian Environmental Management Training Centre
• Lecturer on Environmental Management and Policy at the University of Horticulture and Food Industry in Budapest
• Fullbright Scholar
• Humphrey Fellow
• Former Lecturer at Duke University in Durham, N.C. and at the University of North Carolina.

Office Hours: By appointment 

Vienna office: D008