Budapest Forum 2025

Director, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Prague

Director, Mertek Media Monitor; Associate Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest

Member of the Vienna City Council and Vienna State Parliament for the SPÖ

Director, OSF Western Balkans

Senior Research Fellow, ELTE Center for Social Sciences

Cybersecurity expert, Managing Partner, CyEx

Chief Executive, Irish Electoral Commission

Associate Professor, Eötvös Loránd University

Head of Brussels Representation, Budapest City Hall

Interim President and Rector, CEU

Green Finance Expert, Global Green Growth Institute

Research Fellow, Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy

Co-Managing Editor, Review of Democracy

Representative, Taipei Representative Office in Hungary

Researcher, University of Vienna; Research Affiliate, CEU Democracy Institute

PhD Candidate, Corvinus University of Budapest

Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, Georgetown University Qatar

Mayor of Budapest

Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies

Former Head, Office of Sanctions Coordination, U.S. Department of State

Member of the Hungarian National Assembly for the Momentum Movement, former MEP

Managing Partner, Oriens

Director, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Prague

Journalist, 444.hu

Associate Professor of Law and Strategy, Central European University

Global Engagement Strategist, Free Press Unlimited; Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis

Author of The East Asian Computer Chip War; Lecturer in Chinese Politics, University of Southampton

Political theorist, podcaster

Senior policy fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

City Councilor, Vienna; Co-Leader, Green Party

Director, Political Capital Institute; Policy Leader Fellow, European University Institute

Mayor of Warsaw

Professor of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest

Senior Research Fellow, CEU Democracy Institute

Program Director, Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS); Assistant Professor, Palacky University

President, International Advisory Committee, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy; Co-founder, Belgrade Security Conference

Journalist, political analyst, lawyer

Founder, Central and Eastern European Center for Asian Studies

Journalist, Politico Europe

Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

Program Director, CEU Democracy Institute Leadership Academy; Senior Fellow, CEPA; former Member of Parliament, Hungary

Program Officer, The German Marshall Fund of the United States