Dr. Dora Piroska is Associate Professor at the International Relations Department of Central European University, Vienna, Austria. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the CEU. Her research focuses on the international political economy (IPE) of banking and finance and development finance with a particular interest in the Eastern Central European region. She has published extensively on European financial regulations including the Banking Union, Capital Markets Union, macroprudential regulation, and the Regulatory Sandbox for fintech. Recently, she published on development banking in Hungary and Poland, the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the EBRD in Ukraine. She is also interested in theories of financial nationalism, financial power, and the relation between finance and democracy. She worked for the University of Texas at Austin, International Business School, Budapest, Corvinus University of Budapest. She co-edited a book on János Kornai’s scholarship with Miklós Rosta (CEU Press). Her research appeared in Journal of European Pubic Policy, Review of International Political Economy, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, New Political Economy, Competition and Change, Journal of European Integration, in thematic volumes with Routledge, Oxford University Press, Edward Elgar, and in several Hungarian outlets.