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Levente Nyitrai

Levente Nyitrai
President

Currently the Foreign Policy Attaché of the British Embassy Budapest, Levente obtained his MSc in Comparative Politics form The London School of Economics (LSE). He also holds a history degree from the US and a theology degree from Hungary. A former employee of the Japanese Embassy Budapest, and ex-member of Chatham House, he is a recent graduate of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Emerging Leaders Programme. An avid runner, Levente is a board member of the Budapest based Young Diplomats’ Club. 

Zoltán Csedő

Dr. Zoltán Csedő
Vice President

Zoltán is Managing Partner of Innotica Group, a leading knowledge management enterprise. Prior to his current role, he worked for global companies in the financial services and pharmaceutical industries. Zoltán is member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Public Body, Scientific Section of Economics and Law. He is also Visiting Lecturer in Change Management at Corvinus University of Budapest. Graduating in medicine, Zoltán earned his MSc degree at the LSE (Chevening scholar), his PhD/DBA degree at Corvinus University of Budapest. He is also involved in several global projects of LSE Alumni Association, as Vice President of Group Leaders Support Committee and former Sub Ambassador Europe. He enjoys playing tennis, sailing and skiing.

Szabolcs Vágvölgyi

Szabolcs Vágvölgyi
Vice President

Just before finishing his high school in Hungary, Szabolcs was selected as a UWC Scholar, thus completing his secondary education at Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, in Canada. Following his North- American experience, Szabolcs graduated with a first class honours degree in BSc Environmental Policy at the LSE. Whilst at the school, Szabolcs coached and captained one of LSE’s basketball teams, and he has also chaired the Hungarian Society of LSE’s Students’ Union. After his studies at the LSE, he was selected as a Santos Scholar to pursue a Graduate Diploma in Energy and Resources Management at UCL Australia, and is now working as a consultant with a strong focus on the regional energy sector. Szabolcs is an enthusiast of outdoor sports, of them all he enjoys hiking and sailing the most.

Zsófia Farkas

Zsófia Farkas
Member of the Board

Zsófia Farkas is the Managing Director of Minority Rights Group International Europe, Eastern Partnership and Central Asia Regional Office. She is a passionate human rights defender and advocate for the rights of vulnerable groups. She started her carreer as a lecturer at Budapest Business School. As an advocacy officer, she worked for various humanitarian and development NGOs on issues, like child trafficking, child protection, minorities and migration.  Zsófia graduated from ELTE MSc in Political Sciences and London School of Economics MSc in NGO and Development. She was awarded the Chevening Scholarship in 2006-7.

János Tóth

János Tóth
Member of the Board

János is a native of Cegléd. He studied at the University of Leicester, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in Economics and Management. He also studied International Law for a semester at the University of Geneva on exchange. Later, he studied Social and Organisational Psychology at the LSE. During university years, he gained experience in management consulting, non-profit management and venture building. Since his graduation, he works with a Central Eastern European Venture Capital Fund as Investment Manager. He likes doing yoga and windsurfing.

Máté Martin

Máté Martin
Member of the Board

Having grown up in Japan, Austria and Slovakia, Máté went on to study in Britain, reading International relations at Surrey, then Political Economy of Late Development at the LSE. Between his Bachelors and Masters degrees, he spent a year in Brazil learning Portuguese, and then working for a Brazilian investment bank in London. After his studies Máté went on to work in Corporate Banking in Budapest, before joining the automotive industry. He is currently the Purchasing Manager of an automotive components factory in Hungary. Máté enjoys sailing, fencing and playing tennis, and hopes to revive his saxophone skills in the near future.

Emese Nyitrai

Emese Nyitrai
Member of the Board

Emese obtained her high school diploma both in Hungary and in the United States. She completed her BA at Corvinus University of Budapest in International Studies while interned at different international non-profit organisations and spent an exchange semester at Maastricht University. Following her studies she started working in the Hungarian Ministry of Interior and completed a secondment at the Hungarian Embassy of Nicosia during the Cypriot EU Presidency. In 2014-2015 she returned to school and obtained an MA degree in European Studies at The LSE. At present she works in the National Development Ministry in Budapest in the area of climate policy. She is a certified confectioner, an enthusiastic runner and hiker.