István Teplán

István Teplán (Hungarian: Teplán István; born 1958 son of István Sr biochemist) is a Hungarian economic historian, sociologist and educator. He is one of the creators of the first international Western-style graduate school in the post-communist Central Europe.

Teplan was educated in Hungary and the US, where he studied with Immanuel Wallerstein at Binghamton University.

The idea of a tri-city (Prague-Budapest-Warsaw) international graduate school was supported by former Czech President Václav Havel, former Hungarian President Árpád Göncz and former Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek.

With George Soros he was one of the founders of Central European University (CEU), a graduate school to train the next generation of leaders and to facilitate the democratic transition in East and Central Europe. He participated in the first meeting of CEU in Dubrovnik in 1989. As an Executive Vice President he served CEU between 1992 and 2007. Under his leadership CEU had developed into an internationally recognized institution of higher learning.

As an educator he served on the Administrative Board of the International Association of Universities (UNESCO) between 2000 and 2008 and chaired the Council of the Inter-University Center (IUC) in Dubrovnik between 1998 and 2007.

He served as the Director General of the Government Center for Public Administration in Hungary which trains public servants for the Hungarian public sector and the European Union.

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