Gábor Horn graduated from Marx Károly University of Economical Science in 1980 (now: Corvinus University) with a teacher of economics degree. In his early years studying at the University, he was a part of the Rajk László College for Advanced Studies in Social Theory, then the Social Theory College for Advanced Studies too. For ten years he was teaching political economics and finances, then he took part in forming the Polytechnic of Economics – until 2002, he worked as the pedagogical leader of the institution. Around the fall of communism ...
Andrea Virág, Director of Strategy at Republikon Institue. She studied political science at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Law and Political Science; survey statistics at ELTE, Faculty of Social Sciences, and history at the ELTE, Faculty of Humanities. Her main interests of research include Hungarian voter behavior and party system, as well as context effects in quantitative research. Previously she has gained experience in quantitative and qualitative research in university projects, participated in the work of the MTA RECENS r...
Zoltán Ranschburg is a public policy expert and senior analyst at the Republikon Institute.He graduated from the ELTE Faculty of Humanities in 2011 with a degree in Philosophy and Aesthetics, and in 2017 he received his Master of Public Administration from the CEU School of Public Policy.Previously, he was involved in anti-corruption and transparency projects at K-Monitor, led a programme for the integration of migrants at the Subjective Values Foundation and was President of Amnesty International Hungary between 2016 and '17.From 2019 to '2...
Márton Schlanger is a researcher at the Republikon Institute. He graduated in 2019 from the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University as a political scientist. He then continued his studies at the MSc in Economics and Public Policy of the Corvinus University of Budapest. He had been actively involved in the life of several university organizations. For instance, he was first a member and then the president of ELTE ÁJK Külügyi Kör, and he was a lecturer at the Free University of Secondary Schoolers. He mainly engages in European and Hungaria...
Dávid Király is a communications expert, urban policy expert and as head of the Budapest Workshop of the Repubilikon Institute, he has been working on Budapest related topics since the early 2000s. He has worked as a journalist for Hírszerző, MTI and Hvg.hu, among others, specialising in Budapest municipal politics and urban and transport development. In 2007, he was awarded the Antal Csengery Prize of the Municipality of Budapest. In 2009-10, as a consultant of the Mayor's Office, he was involved in the communication of the capital's major ...
Csaba Fűzfa is a policy expert at Republikon's Budapest Workshop and is responsible for the Institute's online communications. He earned his sociology degree from Corvinus University of Budapest in 2020, with his thesis focusing on the socio-economic impacts of higher education institutions on settlements. In 2022, he also graduated from Corvinus University with a degree in Regional and Environmental Economics. He worked on corporate and municipal sustainability projects for three years. His main areas of interest are urban sociology, sustai...
Ágnes Rét is Programme Coordinator at the Republic Institute. She joined the Institute on 1 March 2023. After studying at the Ort Braude College of Technology in Israel, she worked as a congress organiser in Budapest. He worked as a marketing manager at Duna Plaza, as a PR manager at the Cabinet of the Ministry of Education, and as a marketing manager at the Student Information Centre of Farkas Kempelen. After that, she was the Education Manager of the Future School for more than 10 years. In 2022, she helped Migration Aid as a coordinator o...
Katalin Kápolnai is a PR communications specialist and has been responsible for managing international tenders and press relations at the Institute since September 2023. She studied cultural management at the University of Pécs, arts management at the University of Applied Arts (now MOME) and sociology at ELTE TáTK. Her professional experience is mainly in the field of communication PR. As a project manager, she has been involved in communication campaigns for major EU and national environmental, urban development and equal opportunities pro...
Dániel Mikecz is an external scientific advisor to the Institute. He holds a degree in Political Science from the Faculty of Law and Political Science of ELTE. He defended his doctoral thesis summa cum laude at the same university. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science of the Centre for Social Science Research and an Associate Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science of the Faculty of Law and Political Science of ELTE. He was awarded the Bolyai János Research Fellowship in 2023. In the academic ye...
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