Zsuzsanna Szelényi
Founding Director | Democracy Institute Leadership Academy
Zsuzsanna is founding director of the Democracy Institute Leadership Academy and is running research and pro-democracy projects at the CEU Democracy Institute, focusing on perniciously polarized and autocratizing societies. She started her career as young political activist in Hungary in 1988, and served as Member of Parliament in Hungary for party Fidesz until 1994.
Zsuzsanna completed GMAP of International Politics and Economics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, MA of Psychology of ELTE Budapest and MA of International Relations of Corvinus University. Her book Tainted Democracy, Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary was listed among the best books of 2023 by Foreign Affairs.