Budapest Forum 2025

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

Director, OSF Western Balkans

Senior Research Fellow, ELTE Center for Social Sciences

Chief Executive, Irish Electoral Commission

Associate Professor, Eötvös Loránd University

Interim President and Rector, CEU

Green Finance Expert, Global Green Growth Institute

Vice Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Professor, Central European University

Research Fellow, Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy

PhD Candidate, Corvinus University of Budapest

Mayor of Budapest

Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies

Director, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Prague

Journalist, 444.hu

Political theorist, podcaster

Senior policy fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

Executive director, Political Capital Institute

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

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