Mária Augusztinovics

Mária Augusztinovics (also Marija Augustinovič or Maria Augustinovics, 1930 – 21 November 2014) was a Hungarian macroeconomist known for her work in labour economics and on pension systems.

[1][2][3] Augusztinovics graduated from the Karl Marx University of Economics in Budapest in 1952, defended her doctoral dissertation there in 1956, and completed a habilitation in 1980.

[3] In 1979, as Head of Department in the Hungarian National Planning Office, Augusztinovics was elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

[4] She was given the József Eötvös laureate [hu] in 2000, the prize of the János Arany Public Foundation for Science in 2002, the Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit in 2008, and the Széchenyi Prize in 2010.

[2][5] She was also a consulting member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences[5][6] and an honorary professor at Corvinus University of Budapest.