Csaba Pesti is head of the Information Systems Directorate at AKI Institute of Agricultural Economics. He started his work at the Institute in 2007, his research areas were farm economics, cost and income analysis and microsimulation modelling. Between 2013 and 2016 he worked at the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture, his responsibility was the coordination and supervision of a national network of extension service helping farmers in subsidy claims. He took part as short and mid-term expert in capacity-building projects in Montenegro, Kosovo and Azerbaijan.