Huba Bruckner

Huba Brückner holds degrees in telecommunications and education from the Technical University of Budapest. His doctoral dissertation focuses on the design and application of instruction with computers. From 1970 to 1986 he worked for the computer education center,  SZÁMOK/SZÁMALK, where he provided training on computers for students and experts from forty countries. In 1974 Brückner spent six months in the United States under the United Nations Development Program and studied the use of technology in education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Florida and Stanford University as well as at the Mitre Corporation and the Control Data Corporation.  From 1975 to 1981 Dr. Brückner was the Director of Educational Television Programs at SZÁMALK. He has lectured at the Technical University of Budapest and at Eötvös Loránd University. Brückner served as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian Office of the International Data Group and he was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian version of PC World.

In 1992, Brückner organized and became the first Executive Director of the Hungarian Fulbright Commission (Hungarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange).  He served as Executive Director for 21 years and cultivated the US-Hungarian Fulbright Program into one of the best in the world. The Fulbright Commission in Hungary established several initiatives which served as models for other commissions worldwide.

Brückner is the author of ten books and many scholarly papers. His most recent book is on the life and achievements of composer, conductor, music educator and musicologist Lajos Bárdos, who is generally recognized along with Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály as one of the great Hungarian composers of the twentieth century.  Brückner is married with six children. Among other civil activities he served as the president of the Hungarian Association of Large Families.