Katalin Rácz is head of the Sustainability Research Directorate of AKI. Her main areas of expertise are systems of producer cooperations, networks, social and territorial changes in rural areas, labor market processes in agriculture and the rural economy, rural poverty. She graduated as a sociologist at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Debrecen and obtained a pre-degree certificate in the Sociology PhD Programme at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University.