Lengyel-Almos, Krisztina Eva

Krisztina Lengyel is an economist, specialized on international economic relations. Born in Hungary, she earned her Bachelor´s Degree in Economics from the Budapest University of Economics. She holds a Master´s Degree in Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Her Master´s Thesis focused on the Lessons from the Korean Economic Development for Hungary. She conducted most of her research in Seoul, South Korea while on a summer internship from the LBJ School. After graduation, she worked as an economist for a Texas State Office in Austin, Texas before moving back to Hungary where she worked for a multinational public relations company in a managerial position (Central European IT Manager for Burson-Marsteller). In the late 1990s she moved to Mexico where she co-founded a company that conducted international commerce in the IT industry. Her core functions included the business & financial administration, development and implementation of a relational database system that integrates all key information, business representation, HR functions, trainings and evaluation. Between 2013 and 2017 she worked as the Director of Finances & Operations in LATAM for Graphisoft Mexico. Since January 2012 she has been working as a part time professor at the ITESM Campus Queretaro in the Humanities Department, focusing on International Relations. The courses given by Krisztina Lengyel include Global Economy, Strategic Prospective and Macroeconomics at undergraduate level. In addition, she has applied Future Games several times and supervised more than 80 CAD projects designed for international relations students: semester-long projects developed and executed for Mexican startups and foreign companies and NGOs in diverse fields, from Soft Landing to Business Negotiation Manuals Across Cultures. Also, she has conducted "Doing Business in Mexico" workshop for graduate students several times. Currently Krisztina Lengyel is a PhD candidate in Economic Administration at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro at the Faculty of Accounting and Administration.