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Katalin Rácz

Director

Short bio

Katalin Rácz is the Head of the Sustainability Research Directorate at the the Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI). Her main areas of expertise include producer cooperation systems and networks, social and regional changes in rural areas, labor market processes characteristic of the agricultural and rural economy, and rural poverty. She graduated in Sociology from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Debrecen and later obtained her PhD from the Doctoral School of Sociology at the same university. She has been an elected member of the Interdisciplinary Committee on Agricultural History and Rural Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2021, and its vice-chair since 2024.