Zsuzsanna Végh is a program officer at the Transatlantic Trusts of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Her analytical focus is on Central and Eastern Europe, especially the foreign and EU policies of the Visegrád countries, the state of democracy, and the role and impact of the far right in the European Union. Zsuzsanna has extensive experience working at the intersection of policy analysis and academic research. She has been an associate researcher at the European Council on Foreign Relations since 2011 and authored reports for Freedom House’s flagship project, Nations in Transit, on her native Hungary in 2020-2023. She worked at the European University Viadrina as a researcher and lecturer in 2017–2024, and at the Center for European Neighborhood Studies of Central European University in 2012–2017.
She holds Master’s degrees in international relations and European studies from Central European University and in international studies from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. She currently pursues a PhD in comparative politics focusing on the far right in Central Europe at the European University Viadrina.
Her monograph “Depleting Democracies: Radical right impact on parties, policies and polities in Eastern Europe”, co-authored with Michael Minkenberg, was published by the Manchester University Press.