Péter Benczúr is a scientific officer at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, where he is one of the coordinators of the sustainable and inclusive wellbeing work. Initiated in a series of Strategic Foresight Reports, this Commission initiative aims to develop beyond GDP metrics for the EU to complement GDP. He was one of the developers of the JRC conceptual framework of resilience and the resilience dashboards, which were used in the Commission’s work on strategic foresight. He was involved in research looking at the resilience of the EU, modelling the banking union, taxation, international macroeconomics, and sovereign risk.
He studied mathematics at the Lorand Eotvos University in Budapest and obtained a Ph.D in Economics at MIT in 2001. Before joining the JRC in 2013, he was the head of research at the central bank of Hungary, and an adjunct faculty at Central European University, Budapest.
