Zsuzsanna Szelenyi
Research Affiliate, Program Director | CEU Democracy Institute
Zsuzsanna is a former Hungarian MP, foreign policy specialist, and Founding Director of the Leadership Academy at the CEU Democracy Institute. Her work focuses on how autocratic politics reshapes European societies and the future of the EU. She previously worked at the Council of Europe on democratic development in conflict regions and later co-founded the centrist party Together.
She is the author of Tainted Democracy (2022) and currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).