Balazs Szent-Ivanyi is a lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University, which he joined in 2014. Previously, he worked at the Hungarian Investment and Trade Development Agency, and joined Corvinus University Budapest’s Department of World Economy in 2007. He is a visiting faculty member at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Bologna, and has also taught at the ICN Business School in Nancy, and the University of Minho in Portugal. Between 2012 and 2013, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Leeds.