Peter Kovacs get his Mathematics diploma from University of Szeged, Hungary and has a PhD and habilitation in Economics. Analysis of multicollinearity was the topic of his dissertation and the habilitation concentrated on statistical and financial literacy development. He is associate professor and chair of Department of Statistics and Demography (2013-), and dean of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (2017-) at University of Szeged. Since 2016 he is the Vice president of the Hungarian Statistical Association, since 2018 he is the chair of Statistic Scientific Subcommittee of Hungarian Academy of Science. His main research interests are the statistical and financial literacy, statistics education development and multivariate statistical models.
