Imre Fertő is a research advisor at the Centre for Economic and Reigonal Studies (CERS) in Budapest where he has been working since 1992. He was the director of the Institute of Economics CERS between 2016 and 2019. Recently he is the general director of the CERS. He is also professor at the Kaposvár University. He served earlier as a professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He graduated at the Corvinus (then Karl Marx) University of Budapest in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in economics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1996, and Ph.D. in agricultural economics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2005 and DSc. in economics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2007. Recently, his research focuses on international trade and price transmission, production efficiency, vertical coordination along food chain. He published numerous articles in various international journal