Budapest Forum 2024

Professor of EU law, HEC Paris; Europe’s Futures Fellow, IWM Vienna; Founder, The Good Lobby and the European Journal of Risk Regulation

Member of the Chamber of Deputies for the National Liberal Party, Romania

Visiting Fellow, Stanford University; Senior Lecturer, King’s College London; Author of the book titled “The Great Gender Divergence”

Deputy Head of the Europe in the World Program, European Policy Center

Senior Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations

Assistant Professor, Institute of Legal Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences; Co-founder and Editor, The Wiktor Osiatyński Archive and ruleoflaw.pl

Pulitzer Prize winning Historian, Journalist

Head of Office, Euronews

Senior Research Fellow and Director of Rule of Law Clinic, CEU Democracy Institute

Deputy Editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza

Head of Brussels Representation, Budapest City Hall

Doctoral Candidate, John Hopkins University; Research Affiliate, CEU Democracy Institute

Member of the National Assembly of Serbia

Former Deputy Prime Minister for Climate Policies, Minister of Environment and Water, Bulgaria

Founding Partner and CEO, Red Snow Consulting; Program Manager, European Leadership Program

Program Manager, Heinrich Böll Stiftung

Professor at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile); Post-doctoral Research Fellow, CEU Democracy Institute

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sciences Po

Regional Director, Central Europe, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Deputy Minister of Justice in Poland

Ambassador of the United States to Hungary

József Attila Prize-winning Poet, Critic and Translator

Senior Research Fellow, CEU Democracy Institute

Director, CiviKos Platform

Visiting Fellow, German Marshall Fund

Author, "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You"; Co-Director, New_ Public

Mayor of Tirana

Contributing Writer, The Guardian; Investigative Reporter, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Chief Executive Officer, 444.hu - Magyar Jeti Zrt.

Resident Program Director for Central and Eastern Europe, NDI

Mayor of Budapest

Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations

József Attila Prize-winning Hungarian writer, literary translator, member of the Berlin Academy of Arts

Professor, Texas Lutheran University

China Team Lead, Association for International Affairs

Research Fellow and Executive Editor, Prospect Foundation; Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Global Taiwan Institute; Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Publisher, EU-Media, EurActiv.cz

Senior Adviser on City Diplomacy, Budapest City Hall

Associate Professor of Sociology and Communications, New School for Social Research

Deputy Mayor of Budapest

Professor, Brigham Young University

Director, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Prague

writer, publisher

Director, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Prague

Director, CEU Democracy Institute, Professor, Central European University

Professor, University of Vienna

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Social Sciences, CEU Democracy Institute

Journalist, 444.hu

Taiwan Representative to Hungary

Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, VU University Amsterdam; Research Fellow; University of Oxford

Director, Center for European Politics; Professor, University of Copenhagen

Executive Director, Central European Institute of Asian Studies

Journalist, Author of How to Be a Dictator: An Irreverent Guide

President, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies; Former Prime Minister of Slovakia

Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Ozyegin University, Istanbul

Professor, Université de Fribourg

Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Part-time Professor, School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute

Former Deputy Minister of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development, Ukraine

Member and Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Czech Republic

Head of Evidence, Truth Hound, Ukraine

Professor Emeritus, CEU, Former EU Commissioner, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hungary

Executive director, Political Capital Institute

Associate Professor, Charles University

Director, Free Russia Foundation Brussels; Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Brussels Freedom Hub

Member of the European Parliament, Greens/European Free Alliance

Associate Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest

Deputy Director, Jacques Delors Centre

Member of the National Council, Slovak Republic

Mayor of Zagreb

Associate Research Fellow, Institute for National Defense and Security Research

Director of Innovation and New Markets, Denník N

Former Deputy Minister of Energy of Russian Federation

Head of Division East and South East Europe, Heinrich Böll Stiftung

poet, writer, screenwriter, slammer

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