Magdolna Sass is the director of CERS Institute of World Economics since 2020 April. Her research fields include: international economics and business, foreign trade, foreign direct investments and related policies in (former) transition economies, outward foreign direct investments and emerging multinationals in Hungary and in the Visegrad countries. She obtained her CSc degree in 1998. She worked for the CERS Institute of Economics and for the OECD: She led and participated in numerous national and international research projects. The number of her scientific publications exceeds 270, including articles in Europe-Asia Studies, Post-Communist Economies, European Urban and Regional Studies, European Planning Studies, Global Policy journal, Competition & Change, with more than 2300 references to them.