Hedvig Morvai

Executive Director for Europe and Democracy at ERSTE Foundation in Vienna. She helped establish the European Fund for the Balkans, where she served as Executive Director for more than a decade. Her career spans civic activism, philanthropy and regional politics, with a focus on regional cooperation, European integration and strengthening democratic governance and citizen participation.

She is a Council Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and President of the International Board of Patrons of the Center for Advanced Studies in Rijeka. In 2015, she and her team at the European Fund for the Balkans received the Regional Cooperation Council’s Champion of Regional Cooperation award.