Dr. András Szűcs (1956), graduated as bio-engineer in 1980, After ten years of university teaching at the Budapest University of Technology, from 1990 held international posts as Director of the EU TEMPUS Programme in Hungary (1990-95), Director of the EU Phare Central-Eastern European Distance Education Programme (1994-96) , Director of the European Communication Strategy Programme of the Hungarian Government (1996). Since 1997, Executive Director and from 2000 Secretary General of the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN).

Director of the Centre for Learning Innovation and Adult Learning of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics since 2000.

In 1996-97, Secretary General, since 1998 President of the Supervisory Board of the Hungarian Association of Technology Parks. Since 2005, delegate in the Consultative Committee on Industrial Change of the European Economic and Social Committee.