CURRICULUM VITAE FORM
Personal Data
Name	Dr. Péter Miklós Szirmai
Address	10 arató str. , 1121 Budapest, Hungary
Phone	+361-249-2332
Fax	+361-249-2332
E-mail	peter.szirmai@uni-corvinus.hu
Nationality	Hungarian

Date of birth

31 December, 1947

Places of Employment
• Period (from/until)	From 1990 up to the present
• Name and address of employer	Corvinus University of Budapest (and its predecessors, see Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences) Small Business Development Center, 8 Fővám Sq., 1093 Budapest,
• Type of activity, branch	teaching
• Occupation, position	associate professor, director
• Main activities and tasks	Training of entrepreneurs, later developing entrepreneurship major, starting it, introducing it at the university.

• Period (from/until)	1978-1990
• Name and address of employer	Budapest University of Technology (3 Műegyetem quay, 1111 Budapest) Department of Philosophy
• Type of activity, branch	teaching
• Occupation, position	Associate professor
• Main activities and tasks	teaching philosophy and sociology

Qualifications and Skills

Degree of highest qualification

• Period (from/until)	1994
• Name of awarded title	candidate of economic sciences, subject: Situation, history and development opportunities of enterprises in Hungary

• Period (from/until)	1975
• Name of awarded title	Ph.D. dissertation, subject: Organisation of transport companies, degree: summa cum laude

• Period (from/until)	1971-74
• Name and type of organisation providing teaching/training	Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Philosophy major
• Name of awarded title	Diploma: teacher of philosophy

• Period (from/until)	1971
• Name and type of organisation providing teaching/training	Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences, Faculty of General Economics, Theory major
• Main subjects/skills	labour organisation
• Name of awarded title	Diploma: theoretical economist

Mother tounge

Hungarian

Other language skills
	English (good), German (good), Russian (good), Esperanto (basic)
Social skills and abilities Living together and point work with others in multicultural surroundings, in a position requiring communication, in situations postulating team work (for example in the fields of culture and sport) etc.	I have participated in several international projects, I am founder and to-date co-chairman – mainly as chief of international issues – of the National Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers. I have been dealing directly with labour issues since 1990, I am taking part in the work of the ILO (International Labour Organization), I am a substitute member of the Governing Body since 1994 Since 1988 I have been every year the head of the Hungarian Employers Delegation at the yearly International Labour Conference of ILO, I have organised and lead the work of the delegation and have spoken as the Hungarian delegate at the plenary session of ILO. I am a member of the National ILO Council since 1998.
Organisational skills and abilities Co-ordinating and managing people, projects and cost plans; in the workplace, as voluntary work (for example in the fields of culture and sport) or at home, etc.	Organisational issues can be separated from co-operational and team building skills only with great difficulties, as meeting new challenges usually means teamwork for me. In 1982 I have founded one of the first private business partnerships in Hungary (today it is called Ergonorg Ltd.), which has naturally undergone some changes during the past 22 years, however, it still exists, today successfully operating in the Ltd. form. I have participated in founding the Hungarian Foundation for Company Development (1990), in developing its original concept and have been member of its Advisory Board for a certain period. I have also taken part in founding Career Foundation (1991) and have been its leader from the beginning; as a social activity I still act as Chairman of the Advisory Board. In 1990 I have contributed to founding and developing the concept of SEED Company Development Foundation and as a social activity I am still a member of the Advisory Board of the SEED Foundation. In 1990 I have participated in founding and developing the concept of VOSZ Entrepreneurial Foundation and up to the present I have been a member of its Advisory Board. Since its foundation in 2002 I have been a member of the Advisory Board of the For the Excellence of the Craft of Project Management, which is the Hungarian examination centre of IPMA.

Artistic skills and abilities Music, writing, fine arts, etc.

Once I was strongly connected to the film industry, thus I have been a founder of the Motion Picture Innovation Society and the Motion Picture Innovation Foundation, as well as being a consultant of the Balázs Béla Studio, etc. Presently I am only a member of the Film Club Association, I only pursue arts as receiver (it is my firm belief that the creative and performing character of teaching at a high level is close to artistic activities). I have been a founder and editor of BOOM periodical, Cégvezetés periodical, and second editor-in-chief of Üzleti 7 weekly. Today I am editor of the recently founded scientific journal “Vállalkozás és innováció” (Enterprise and innovation).

Appendices

Selected list of publications 1. Dr. Péter Szirmai-Tamás Szomor: Business planning – course book for secondary schools; Országos Tankönyvkiadó; Budapest, 1998. 360 pages; 2. Dr. Péter Szirmai: 10 lessons on business planning, MVA-Conex Bp. 1997. 3. Dr. Péter Szirmai: The situation of SMEs and the tasks of their development in Hungary, MVA Publication 1993. 4. Dr. Péter Szirmai: Tasks of grounding and operating enterprises in Hungary (Country Report); SECI Project on Financial policies for strengthening SME's; UNO Economic Commission for Europe; Genf, 1998. 5. Dr. Péter Szirmai-Tamás Szomor: Business plan – business planning – course book for vocational secondary schools; Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, 1999. 360 pages 6. Raising the opportunity of the employment of young people by helping to create independent enterprises, OFA Research Yearbook, pp. 157-168. Budapest, 2002. 7. Life cycles of SMEs, Üzlet & Siker, No. 2002/2. pp. 40-41., Budapest 8. Qualified managers, Cégvezetés, Vol. X. No. 4., April 2000, pp. 147-149. 9. The Missing Keel (Thoughts on Hungarian small enterprises), Hungarian Chamber Horizon, 2002/01. 53-55.pp. 10. Entrepreneurial training and recovery period, Vezetéstudomány, Vol. XXXIII., 2002. No. 1. pp. 12-21. 11. Entrepreneurial interests and safeguarding of interests in the perspective of the EU accession. (Mid-range programme of VOSZ, 2002-2005), VOSZ News, Vol. 7. No. 9., 7 September, 2002. pp. 11-19. 12. Competition and ability – in small scale, Üzleti 7, Vol. VII. No. 40., p. 11., 7 October, 2002 13. The Brazilian mirror, Cégvezetés, Vol. XI., No. 8., August 2003., pp. 102-104. 14. The guarantee of trustworthiness, Üzleti7, 18 August 2003 15. Far from the workplace, A Munkaadó Lapja, 2003. Vol. X., No. 7., pp. 29-30. Happy organisation, A Munkaadó Lapja (Monitor) 2003. Vol. X., No. 8., p. 62.