Dora Piroska

Dr. Dóra Piroska is Associate Professor at the International Relations Department of Central European University, Vienna, Austria. She holds a PhD. from the CEU in Political Science/IR track. Her research focuses on the international political economy (IPE) of banking and finance, banking regulation, and development finance. She has a particular interest in the Eastern Central European region. She engages with theories of financial nationalism, financial power, and their relations to democracy. She has published extensively on European financial regulation including the European Banking Union, Capital Markets Union, macroprudential regulation, and the Regulatory Sandbox for Fintech. She published on development banking in Hungary and Poland, the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the European Bank for Restructuring and Development (EBRD). She co-edited a book on János Kornai’s scholarship with Miklós Rosta.