Max Abrahms is a professor of political science at Northeastern University and an expert in international security, with a focus on terrorism, counterterrorism, and U.S. foreign policy. He has also published research on the political effectiveness of non-state violence.

She is currently a faculty member in the Department of International Relations at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University and vice director of the Institute of Graduate Programs. Prof. Açıkalın graduated from the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in 2012. She received her master’s degree with the thesis “Leadership in Chaos: Angela Merkel and Euro Crisis” at the Middle East Technical University in 2015. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2020 from the same university with her thesis “Political Leadership and Foreign Politics: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Angela Merkel”. She has been a guest researcher at Lancaster University in the U.K. and Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin in Germany within Jean Monnet Scholarship Program. Dr. Açıkalın works on leadership, Turkish foreign policy, chaos, and complexity theory, and Turkish-EU relations. She has remarkable journal publications on the integration of women and girls in migration studies. Dr. Açıkalın also focuses on climate refugees as well as gastro-diplomacy and fashion diplomacy in theory and practice. She is also the author of the book “Leadership Diplomacy in Turkish-German Relations”. She is the editor of Beyond Covid-19: Multidisciplinary Approaches and Outcomes on Diverse Fields was published in 2022 by WorldScientific. Açıkalın is also interested in city and health diplomacy, and she is a member of the advisory board of the Turkish Healthy Cities Union. She is a founding member of the International Science Association and Dr. Açıkalın was a participant of the Bali Democracy Forum 2019, Asian Civilizational Dialogue in Beijing, China. She has constantly given interviews to national and international media outlets.

Sohrab Ahmari is a founder and editor of Compact: A Radical American Journal. Previously, he spent nearly a decade at News Corp., as op-ed editor of the New York Post and as a columnist and editor with the Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London. In addition to those publications, his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Spectator, Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Literary Supplement, Commentary, and Dissent, among many others. Ahmari’s books include Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty — and What To Do About It (2023) and The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos (2021), both published by Penguin Random House.

Omar Ashour is a Professor of Security and Military Studies and the Founding Chair of the Critical Security Studies Programme at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He is the Director of the Strategic Studies Unit at the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies. He was a tenured faculty member at the University of Exeter (UK) for ten years (2008-2018) and lectured at McGill University (Canada) for two years (2006-2008). He previously served as a senior consultant for the United Nations on counterterrorism, security sector reform, and de-radicalization issues. Professor Ashour specialises in small state defence; combat and military effectiveness; military adaptations, innovations, and transformations by state and nonstate armed actors; asymmetric, conventional, irregular and hybrid warfare; weapon systems analysis; counterinsurgency and counterterrorism; and collective de-radicalization. He is the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements (Routledge, 2009) and How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and the editor of Bullets to Ballots: Collective De-Radicalisation of Armed Movements (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). His current research project is focused on “Comparative Combat Effectiveness and Ukraine’s Regular and Irregular Armed Forces.”

Miguel Ayuso-Torres is a renowned Spanish jurist and philosopher of law. He has been a full professor at the School of Law of Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid for twenty years. Miguel earned his Ph.D. from Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid (Spain) and a Ph.D. honoris causa from Università degli Studi di Udine (Italy) and Universidad San Martín de Porres (Peru). He has been a member of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Bellas Letras y Nobles Artes de Córdoba. Miguel has served as the Chairman of The International Union of Catholic Lawyers (Rome) from 2009 to 2019. He is still the Chairman of the Sectorial Group in Political Sciences of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (Paris) and the Hispanic Studies Council Philip II (Madrid). He is also the editor of "Verbo," a journal for civic formation and cultural action according to natural and Christian Law. Miguel has authored more than thirty books and several hundred articles on Legal and Political Philosophy, Public Law, and History of Political Ideas.

Dr. György Bacsa is a capital market and transaction specialist and corporate leader. He holds degrees in law and economics from ELTE and Corvinus Universities in Budapest, from the University of Heidelberg in Germany and the American Duke University.

Mr Bacsa is Executive Vice President of Group Strategic Operations and Corporate Development at MOL Group, which area is responsible for the management of M&A projects, corporate strategy-making processes, project evaluation, for the coordination of group-level legal and compliance tasks, venture capital fund investments, corporate relationships, staffing, regulatory, and internal audit activities. He is a member of The Board of Directors at MOL Group from December 2021.

Since 2003, he has been working in the group in various expert and then management positions, and is also a member of the management boards of various companies and associations.

Since 2013, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Budapest Stock Exchange, as well as a member of the Board of Directors and investment bodies of Gran Private Equity Zrt., Lead Ventures Zrt., Market Asset Management Zrt. and Alpac East-West Venture Capital.

He is a member of the New York Bar Association and the MKIK Arbitration Register. Mr. Bacsa is Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Theater and Film Arts since 2020.

From 2021 Mr Bacsa is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Education, Culture and Science Foundation for Civic Education and the Board of Trustees of the MOL-New Europe Foundation.

He graduated in law from San Pablo University in Madrid, was an Erasmus student at Augsburg University in Germany and obtained a Master's degree in EU law (LL.M, mention très bien) in 2002 from the College of Europe Institute. He started his career as a teaching assistant at the College of Europe and after two years joined the US law firm Latham and Watkins, specializing in European competition law. He then continued his career at the European Parliament, where he worked for two years in the Legal, Market and Home Affairs section of the Spanish delegation of the European People's Party (Partido Popular). In 2008, he continued his career at the European Commission, following a successful competition that was open to the public. He started his career in the Justice DG and from 2011 he worked in the EU Home Affairs DG, where he was responsible for the external aspects of the EU's migration policy towards Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa. Between November 2014 and December 2019, he joined the Cabinet of EU Commissioner Tibor Navracsics at the European Commission, where he was responsible for primary and secondary education. His activities included the expansion of entrepreneurship education in the EU, and he was the lead organizer of the 2018 and 2019 European Education Summits. He was also responsible for liaising with the European People's Party and was a frequent speaker at debates, meetings and conferences. Since 2010, he has been a visiting lecturer in EU law at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. He is fluent in Spanish, French and English and has a good command of German, Italian and a beginner's level of Hungarian.

George Beebe spent more than two decades in government as an intelligence analyst, diplomat, and policy advisor, including as director of the CIA’s Russia analysis, director of the CIA’s Open Source Center, and as a staff advisor on Russia matters to Vice President Cheney. His book, The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe (St. Martin’s Press, 2019), warned how the United States and Russia could stumble into a dangerous military confrontation. Prior to joining QI, George was Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for the National Interest and before that he served as president of a technology company that measured the impact of events, issues, and advertising campaigns on audience views. He speaks Russian and German.

Senior Colonel Zhou Bo (retired) started his military service in 1979. He served in different posts in Guangzhou Air Force Regional Command. From 1993 he worked successively as staff officer, Deputy Director General of West Asia and Africa Bureau, and then Deputy Director General of the General Planning Bureau of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Ministry of National Defense of China, Chinese Defense Attaché to the Republic of Namibia and Director of the Centre for Security Cooperation in the Office for International Military Cooperation, Ministry of National Defense. He is now a senior fellow of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University and a China Forum expert.

Zhou Bo has published more than 100 essays and opinions in English which include Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist (by invitation), the Australian, South China Morning Post, The Diplomat, Strait Times, Die Zeit, China-US Focus and China Daily, etc. He had interviews with BBC, NBC, Time, Economist, Euronews, Channel NewsAsia (Singapore), Radio France, NHK, Russia Today, CNBC, ABC (Australia), Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, Arte, and CGTN, etc. He spoke as a PLA delegate at Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore and at the Munich Security Conference. He is the supervisor to foreign post-graduate officers at PLA National Defense University.

Zhou Bo is a graduate of Air Force Engineering College and a postgraduate of St Edmund College of Cambridge University (Mphill in International Relations). He was a visiting fellow at the Land Warfare Studies Centre of the Australian Army in 1999. He has attended various courses at Harvard University, Westminster University, PLA National Defense University, PLA University of Science and Technology for the National Defense, and PLA Army Command College (Shijiazhuang).

Danış hold a BA and MA in Economics. He has expertise in energy markets, energy economics, energy policy, energy geopolitcs, pipeline, gas & LNG markets, Turkish energy markets, east med. gas, caspian and SEE energy markets, Middle east. He's also currently studies in renewable energy, energy transitation, mobility and Electric Vehicles. He founded Istanbul based consulting and investment company MOBEN in 2022. MOBEN provides investment, research, market strategies and goverment relations on energy, mobility, economy and geopolitics. His articles, analyses and interviews are published in several national and international newspapers, journals. Such as; Daily Sabah, Hürriyet, Sabah, Hürriyet Daily News, Bloomberg News(USA), AA, Ruskiipovros, Al Jazeera, AP, TRT World, TRT Haber, CNNTürk, Bloomberg TV

Christopher Davis is an academic expert on the economies of Russia and East Europe. He studied for his B.A. in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University (1969) and for his Ph.D. in Economics at Cambridge University (1980). The topic of his Ph.D. dissertation was The Economics of Health in the USSR. He has held tenured academic positions at the University of Birmingham (Centre for Russian and East European Studies, 1978-1991) and the University of Oxford (jointly in Economics and Area Studies, 1991-2015). Since 2016 he has held a research position at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing as Professorial Research Fellow.

He commenced his academic research on defence economics related to the USSR and Russia in 1985 following a Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in National Security and Arms Control at MIT and has produced over fifteen publications in this field. His most recent defence publications are the journal article Davis, C, (2016) The Ukraine Conflict, Economic-Military Power Balances, and Economic Sanctions, Post-Communist Economies (Open Access) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14631377.2016.1139301 and the book chapter Davis, C. (2019) The Russian Defence Industry, 1980-2025: Systemic Change, Policies, Performance in the book The Economics of the Global Defence Industry. He is completing a commissioned updated version of his 2016 PCE article with the title of: Economic Aspects of the Ukraine Conflict 2014-2022: Russia's Defence-Industrial Complex, Economic–Military Power Balances, Economic Warfare, and Costs of the War.

Christopher has made over 50 academic research visits to the USSR and Russia since 1974, including an academic year at Moscow State University as a postgraduate student, and during 2013-2021 he held two part-time senior research positions in universities in Moscow in the field of health economics.

Abdolrasool Divsallar is a visiting professor at the Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, focusing on defense and strategic studies, regional security reform, and non-proliferation issues. He is also focused on Middle East security, Iran’s military and foreign affairs, Russia-Iran relations, and Persian Gulf security dynamics. Divsallar co-founded and led the Regional Security Initiative at the European University Institute (EUI) from 2020-22. Prior to this, he was a Policy Leader Fellow at the EUI School of Transnational Governance. Between 2005 and 2018 he worked in Tehran in various positions, including as a senior fellow at the Institute for the Middle East Strategic Studies and the Center for Strategic Studies. Divsallar has written and edited eight books, including Stepping Away from the Abyss: A Gradual Approach Towards a New Security System in the Persian Gulf (EUI, 2021), and published numerous peer review papers and journal articles.

Dr. Betul Dogan-Akkas is a researcher of the Arab Gulf States. She holds a joint PhD in Gulf Studies from Durham University and Qatar University.  She received her MA degree with the thesis titled “Securitization of Qatari Foreign Policy” at Qatar University. Dogan Akkas completed her BA in International Relations at Bilkent University. She is also a co-convenor of the BISA Working Group International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia. In her research, she examines foreign policy, security strategies, and political culture in the GCC states. Dogan-Akkas also covers the involvement of the GCC states in the Yemen war and Turkiye-GCC relations.

Petr Drulák is Czech scholar, diplomat and activist, Professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, and the founding chairman of the Czech association Svatopluk. He was the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to France and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. He publishes on international relations and on Czech politics.

Maria Engström is Professor of Russian at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research focuses on Russian neoconservative intellectual milieu, imperial aesthetics in contemporary literature and art, late Soviet underground culture, post-Soviet utopian imagination, and the role of the Orthodox Church in contemporary Russian politics. She co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture, Oxford University Press (2023) and Digital Orthodoxy: Mediating Post-Secularity in Russia (2015). Engström’s publications include articles ‘Re-imagining antiquity: The conservative discourse of ‘Russia as the true Europe’ and Kremlin’s new cultural policy’ (2020), ‘Visualizing the Conservative Revolution: Alternative Globalization and Aesthetic Utopia of ‘Novorossiia’’ (2018), and 'Contemporary Russian Messianism and New Russian Foreign Policy' (2014). Her current project ‘No(w)stalgia of Modernity: Neo-Soviet Myth in Contemporary Russian Culture’ (2021-2024) is supported by the Swedish Research Council.

Viktor Eszterhai earned his Ph.D. degree in 2018 at the Eötvös Loránd University Modern and Contemporary History Doctoral Program. He holds an MA in History and Geography, and a BA in Psychology. He holds a MA in History and Geography and a BA in Psychology. Between 2014 and 2015, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of International Relations of Tsinghua University under the joint intergovernmental scholarship program of Balassi Institute and the Chinese Government Scholarship Council. In 2017, he spent one month in Shanghai as a visiting scholar at Fudan Development Institute, Fudan University. From July 2015 to January 2021, he was a senior researcher at Pallas Athene Geopolitical Research Institute. From September 2019 to January 2021, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Geoeconomics and Sustainable Development, Corvinus University, Budapest. Since January 2021, he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Foreign Economics and Trade. His main research areas are the cultural features of Chinese foreign policy, China-Europe relations, and non-Western schools of international relations.

Thomas Fazi is an UnHerd columnist and translator. His latest book is The Covid Consensus, co-authored with Toby Green. He used to write mainly about economics, sovereignty, globalism, and (all the things that are wrong with) the EU. For the past 3 years, he has written a lot about pandemic capitalism and the authoritarian restructuring of societies done in the name of Covid.

Professor Frank Furedi is an internationally renowned sociologist, author and media commentator. He is an emeritus professor of sociology University of Kent in Canterbury and author of more than 25 books, which have been translated into 16 languages. His studies have been devoted to an exploration of cultural developments in western societies. In recent years he has published several studies on the impact of the culture wars on family life, socialisation, education and public life. For example, in Populism and the European Culture Wars: The Conflict of Values Between Hungary and the EU (2017) and 100 Years of Identity Crisis: The Culture War Over Socialisation (2021) he dealt with the politicisation of culture. His recent book The Road To Ukraine: How the West Lost Its Way (2022) situates the war at the crossroad between geo-politics and culture. Furedi regularly comments on radio, television and the global media. In his free time, Frank pursues his love of mountain sports. His favourite place in the world is White Hart Lane, home ground of his team Tottenham Hotspurs. He is extremely excited about the launch of MCC Brussels because he believes a new institution is needed to challenge the conformist intellectual and cultural narrative that prevails in the EU bubble. He believes that MCC Brussels will provide a home for European intellectuals and policy makers who are committed to upholding and developing further the values that underpin the many European cultures.

Caroline Galactéros is a French political scientist, author, and director of the strategic consulting company "Planeting". She is the author of the bestseller "Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations". She has written essays on geopolitics, including "The world's tipping point".  She regularly took part in meetings of experts on migration issues in Russia and abroad.

Sándor Gallai is the Head of the MCC School of Social Sciences and History. He obtained a degree in Economics from the Budapest University of Economics and a PhD in Political Science from its Doctoral School of International Relations. He also studied at the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen on a Tempus scholarship. As a researcher, he spent six months in Leuven, one month in Oslo, and three months in Bergen and Glasgow. Sándor has been teaching at Corvinus University for over two decades, mainly on comparative politics, political systems and transitions in Eastern and Central Europe, public policy, and governance in Hungarian and English language programs. He served the university for a decade and a half in various departmental, institute, and faculty leadership positions. Sándor has published two individual and one co-authored monograph, one edited textbook, dozens of book chapters, and journal articles, mostly in Hungarian and to a lesser extent in English. Besides his academic activities, he has worked as a political-economic analyst (Australian Embassy), head of policy analysis (Budapest Economics/DZ BANK CEE Research), head of a governmental think tank (Institute for Public Policy Research, Institute for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade), scientific director of a non-governmental research institute, and later director of a research institute (Migration Research Institute).

Riva Ganguly Das is a senior Indian diplomat who belongs to the Indian Foreign Service cadre. She has held several high-ranking positions in the Indian government, including Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs, High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh, Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Indian Embassy in The Hague. Ms. Ganguly Das has also served as the Alternate Permanent Representative of India to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague. Ms. Ganguly Das has a postgraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Delhi and has taught Political Science there as well.

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Born in 1954 in Budapest, he graduated from the Szombathely Teacher Training College with a degree in Library and Hungarian Studies (1977), and from Eötvös Lóránd University with a degree in Hungarian Studies (1980) and History (1985). After four years of librarian and public education work and four years in the lexicon editorial office of Akadémiai Publishers, he was a lecturer at the Janus Pannonius University of Sciences (now University of Pécs) from 1985 to 2018. He participated in the undergraduate and postgraduate courses of the history departments and in the organisation of the PhD programme from 1988 as an assistant professor, and after defending his PhD thesis in 1997 as an associate professor. In 2000 he habilitated and became head of the Department of Modern History (2001-2016). He lectured on the history of Europe between 1648 and 1815, the modern history of France and the history of the United States. His research interests include the Great French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.

He has lectured at twenty-one academic conferences abroad and twenty in his own country, taught classes at the University of Amsterdam (1993) as part of the European University Exchange Program, and has lectured at the Smithsonian's National Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids (2001). He has been chairman of the History Final Committee of the National High School History Competition (1996-1997), a board member of the Association of History Teachers (1998-2001) and of the Professional Association of History Teachers (since 2016), a member of the editorial board of The Hungarian Historical Review since 2012 and of the editorial board of Rubicon history magazine since 2013. He has been awarded the Széchenyi Professorial Fellowship (2001-2004), the Péter Szebenyi Prize of the Association of History Teachers (2011) and the Order of Merit of the Order of Merit of Hungary (2018).

He has published twenty-four independent volumes. He has translated six English and French-language history textbooks (including studies by C. A. Beard, Alexis de Tocqueville and François Furet), regularly published historical studies and historical essays in Hungarian journals, and twenty-one studies in foreign languages, seventeen of which have appeared in foreign publications. He was a proof-reader or editor of thirteen history textbooks, and he wrote 1341 historical glossaries for the Hungarian Encyclopaedia. He has written more than 200 reviews of historical works, and is a frequent contributor to the media with written interviews and radio and television interviews.

Akihiro Iwashita focuses on border studies and Russian foreign policy towards China and Japan. His published work includes A 4,000 Kilometer Journey Along the Sino-Russian Border (SRC, 2004), Japan’s Border Issues: Pitfalls and Perspectives (Routledge, 2016), and Geo-politics in Northeast Asia (Routledge, 2016). He spent 2007–2008 as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and published New Geopolitics and the Rediscovery of the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Reshaping “Northeast Asia” beyond the Border (Brookings Institution, 2010). Throughout his career, he has been committed to supporting the global border studies community, founding the Japan International Border Studies Network in 2011, organizing the 12th Border Regions in Transition Conference (Fukuoka and Pusan, 2012) and serving as the president of the Association for Borderlands Studies (2015–2016). He has also organized and led numerous tours of contested Eurasian border areas, laying foundations for dispute settlement and mutual understanding. Iwashita was a recipient of the Osaragi Jiro Prize for Commentary (Asahi Shimbun, 2006), JSPS Prize (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2007), and Milefsky Award (IBRU, 2019).

Head of the MCC School of Media. "Kalnoky, you should become a journalist!" - "God forbid!" I had this brief exchange with one of my teachers in eighth grade. Eventually, journalism became my life. I was born in Germany in 1961 to a Szekler father and a Silesian mother. My parents moved to a new country or city every few years, so I spent my childhood in Germany, the United States, the Netherlands and France, in six different cities. I finished school in Paris, studied political science in Hamburg (graduated in 1986), then joined the editorial staff of the German newspaper Die Welt. When the change of regime came in 1989, my Hungarian roots went east, and I started to write about Central and Eastern Europe. In 1993, I left my burgeoning career at Die Welt and came to Budapest to freelance. Nine months later, I was lured back, now as a correspondent. In 2004, I became a correspondent for Turkey and the Middle East, based in Istanbul, from where I returned in 2013. In 2015 I left Die Welt again to freelance again in Hungary. Although I continue to work for them, I now also work in parallel with Austrian and Swiss publications. I can't live without writing, and I want to share this passion with my students.

Dr. Joon Hyung Kim is Professor of the International Studies Department, Handong Global University. He was Chancellor of the KNDA (Korea National Diplomatic Academy) from August 2019 to Auguts 2021. His areas of specialization and interests are theories of international relations, Northeast Asian relations including US-China, US-ROK, and North-South Korean relations. He was also invited as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar to George Mason University, USA and taught several courses. Since 2011, Dr. Kim has involved in the Korea Peace Forum, a renowned network-based think-tank specialized in the peace and unification. Since 2016, He has been a member of Moon Jae In’s presidential election camp, where he consulted and wrote major foreign policies. After Moon was elected, he joined the Government Transition Committee, and became a member of the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning (Security and Foreign Policy Sub-committee). In addition to that, he belongs to Advisory Committees to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Unification, and the National Security Council. Dr. Kim earned his Bachelor’s Degree at Yonsei University (1986), and M.A. and Ph.D. at George Washington University.

Dr Kiss graduated from Pázmány Péter Catholic University’s Faculty (Dr) of Law and Political Sciences in 2000. He subsequently studied marketing & sales (Stockholm, Sweden, 2001) and completed an executive corporate management program (Tokyo, Japan, 2004).

Before embarking on a diplomatic career, he was the Business Development Director of the largest Hungarian industrial group, Videoton Holding Co (2006-2008). In his first years as a diplomat (2008-2012), he worked as the Head of the Economic Section at the Embassy of Hungary in Singapore, as well as the Regional Economic Representative for Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. During his tenure, he became a Member of the Board of the European Chamber of Commerce (EuroCham) in Singapore (2008-2011). In his position as the Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Hungary in Singapore (2012-2013), he was the Senior Official of the 20th EU-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in 2012. After returning to Hungary in 2013, he became the Business Development Director of Századvég Economic Research Institute and an Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister's Office (2013-2014) until he was appointed Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Hungary to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland (2014-2017), serving also as the Chairperson of the Working Party on the Accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the organization.

Ambassador Kiss has remained devoted to lifelong learning. At Harvard University he completed both the Kennedy School of Government’s Emerging Leaders Executive Program (2013) and Mastering Trade Policy Executive Program (2015). He then enrolled in the University of Oxford where he received his postgraduate master diploma in Global Business in 2015 then Executive MBA degree at Said Business School in 2017.

With a strong commitment to passing on his international academic, business and diplomatic experiences, he is currently the Senior Lecturer of Strategies of International Negotiation, Economic and Business Diplomacy, at Budapest Business School.

He is also a lecturer at Matthias Corvinus Collegium (College of International Relations).

In addition to being a Hungarian native speaker and fluent in English, Dr. Kiss speaks German, Russian and Italian at an intermediate level.

Mr. Kohán is a foreign policy writer with Hungary's premier conservative weekly Mandiner, a regular contributor to both conservative and liberal television, and a lecturer at MCC's Media School. He mostly covers the former Soviet Union, Turkic states, Germany, and the EU's political & economic affairs from a distinctly Hungarian perspective. Mr. Kohán received his degree in Slavic Studies from the University of Vienna.

Kishore Mahbubani is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS). Mr Mahbubani has been privileged to enjoy two distinct careers, in diplomacy (1971 to 2004) and in academia (2004 to 2019). He is a prolific writer who has spoken in many corners of the world. In diplomacy, he was with the Singapore Foreign Service for 33 years (1971 to 2004). He had postings in Cambodia, Malaysia, Washington DC and New York, where he twice was Singapore’s Ambassador to the UN and served as President of the UN Security Council in January 2001 and May 2002. He was Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 1998. As a result of his excellent performance in his diplomatic career, he was conferred the Public Administration Medal (Gold) by the Singapore Government in 1998. Mr Mahbubani joined academia in 2004, when he was appointed the Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School), NUS. He was Dean from 2004 to 2017, and a Professor in the Practice of Public Policy from 2006 to 2019. In April 2019, he was elected as an honorary international member to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which has honoured distinguished thinkers, including several of America’s founding fathers, since 1780. Mr Mahbubani was awarded the President’s Scholarship in 1967. He graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Philosophy from the University of Singapore in 1971. From Dalhousie University, Canada, he received a Master’s degree in Philosophy in 1976 and an honorary doctorate in 1995. He spent a year as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1991 to 1992.

PhD (econ.) Tuomas Malinen is CEO of GnS Economics, a Helsinki-based macroeconomic consultancy, and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Helsinki. He has studied economics also at New York University. Professor Malinen studied economic crises for 10 years and economic growth for 15 years in the academia. Currently he provides forecasts and analyses on the world economy to investors and companies. He is frequently interviewed by the international media.

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Damjan Krnjević Mišković is Professor of Practice at ADA University and Director for Policy Research, Analysis, and Publications of the Institute for Development and Diplomacy (IDD) in Baku, Azerbaijan. In 2020, he came to Baku from Belgrade having served as Executive Director of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD). His previous positions include Senior Strategist and Chief Speechwriter for the Serbian Candidate for UN Secretary-General (2015-2016); Senior Special Adviser and Chief Speechwriter to the President of the UN General Assembly (2012-2013); Senior Adviser and Chief Speechwriter to the Foreign Minister of Serbia (2007-2012), with concurrent appointments as Chairperson of the Admissions Committee of the State Diplomatic Academy and a member of its Advisory Board; Director of Policy Planning and Analysis of the Presidential Administration of Serbia (2006-2007); Special Adviser to the President of Serbia (2004-2006); and Managing Editor of The National Interest (2002-2004). His academic articles, policy essays, and op-eds have appeared in publications like The National Interest, the French journal Commentaire, the Journal of Democracy, Orbis, Society, The Review of Metaphysics, and Baku Dialogues, in addition to the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the National Review and the Weekly Standard.

Arta Moeini is an international political theorist and a scholar of Modernity and geopolitics whose research spans questions of civilizational decline and cultural renewal (particularly in the West), the role of ideology in statecraft, realist approaches to foreign policy, and global cultural pluralism.

Dr. Moeini is the Director of Research at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy (IPD) – an international affairs think tank committed to advancing realism and restraint in U.S. foreign policy.

His writings have appeared in AGON, Compact, UnHerd, The American Conservative, The National Interest, and elsewhere. Dr. Moeini was a 2021 Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute and a 2022 James Madison Fellow at Hillsdale College. He is also an elected member of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters.

He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Near Eastern Studies from the University of California Berkeley, a Masters in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a Ph.D. (with distinction) and M.A. in Government from Georgetown University.

Mohammed Ahmed Gain is a professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Ibn Tofail (Kenitra-Morocco) and president of the African Institute for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation (AIPECT). He received his PhD in postcolonial studies from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah (Fez) and studied international human rights law at the Geneva Human Rights Institute. He has worked for more than 10 years as an expert in human rights, peace, and security in Africa. His writing has appeared in publications for the Social Science Research Council (New York), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and other African think tanks. He has lectured widely on conflict analysis, mediation, peace, and security in North Africa and the Sahel. In addition to his academic career, Mr. Gain has been a member of many non-governmental organizations. In December 2017, he was elected as deputy secretary general of the Pan African Youth Union. He also worked as a consultant and trainer on peacebuilding and mediation in Rwanda, Mali, Gabon, and other African countries. He has received various leadership awards including the New Leaders for Tomorrow from the Swiss Crans Montana Forum. He regularly gives commentary to media outlets on the Maghreb and the Sahel.

Csaba Moldicz will be the Head of the MCC Center for Foreign Economics from October 2022. His main research area is the economic relations between the European Union and China, with a special focus on the Central and Eastern European region. He has edited several books and published two monographs. His first book, published in Hungarian, was written in reflection on the 2008-2009 crisis, while his book, published in 2020 by Routledge, focused on the European dimension of the US-China technological rivalry.

Zeyad Moustafa is an accomplished journalist with experience in Arabic media. He started his career with Al-Ahram newspaper in Egypt and later wrote several successful political articles for Ain newspapers in Egypt. Mr. Moustafa is also part of the new generation of online media in the Middle East, having participated in establishing several huge websites such as Filgoal.com, Yallakora.com, and Qalwadal.com since 2002. He was also the former editor-in-chief of Eurosport Arabia from Dubai, the Arabic version of the French international Eurosport network. Mr. Moustafa has covered several major events for Albayan newspaper in Dubai, including Expo 2020 Dubai and the Tashkent International Investment Forum. He has presented, analyzed, and commented on events on Dubai TV and Al-Arabiya TV in Dubai. In addition to his work in journalism, Mr. Moustafa scripts, voices, and presents Albayan tech podcast. He also has his own general YouTube video channel where he talks about technology, sports, and several interesting topics in Arabic.

From May 2022, Márton Nagy has become the Minister of Economic Development, and was previously chief adviser to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Certified economist. Between 1998 and 2000, he started his career as an analyst at the State Debt Management Center, then from 2000 to 2002 he worked as a senior economist at ING. He joined the MNB team in 2002. From 2015, he held the position of vice-president responsible for monetary policy, financial stability and credit promotion of the Hungarian National Bank. In addition, he performed his duties as deputy chairman of the Monetary Council of the MNB, as a member of the Financial Stability Council, and as chairman of the Financial Department of the Hungarian Economic Society, as well as a lecturer and instructor.

Author of numerous researches, analyzes and articles. His research and publication areas mainly focus on the pricing of bank products and healthy lending. In his professional publications, he analyzes the challenges of the financial system. As vice-president of the central bank, he participated, among other things, in the launch of the Growth Loan Program, the conversion of foreign currency loans into forints, and the launch of the Growth Bond Program.

In 2014, he received the Sándor Popovics award, which is awarded to up-and-coming professionals who provide outstanding professional work in the field of economics and finance.

Lawyer, theologian and philosopher, head of the MCC School of Law. Within the School, as head of the Law and Society Workshop, his three main projects are Christianity and Human Rights, Religion and Society, and Film and Society. In the field of law and political science, his main areas of interest are social theory, philosophy of law and state, philosophy and legal ethics, and his doctoral thesis (PhD) was on mediation and gentle conflict resolution. He is currently writing a book on the relationship between Christianity and human rights, with a special focus on religious freedom. As a Roman Catholic theologian, she is the author and editor of several volumes in Hungarian and English, mainly in the field of ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, and wrote her second doctoral thesis (PhD) on this topic. After two years of university studies in Geneva, he worked as a researcher at the Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma, taught theology in prisons, was a member of the world leadership of ecumenical organisations, and is currently co-president of the Hungarian Society for Interreligious Dialogue. He has a degree in Hungarian, Aesthetics and Literature, and has taught Religious Studies and Communication Studies at several universities and doctoral programmes. She is passionate about film and is the editor of the film talk show with Gyula László Szőnyi entitled "Tekercs és Tekintet" (Reel and View) and the website currently built around it.

Evans Ogada specializes in constitutional and administrative law litigation. He has as handled numerous cases in these areas, including representing the Law Society of Kenya in 2019 in a petition concerning the appointment of judges, and two petitions on arbitrary arrests. He is a member of the Law Society of Kenya’s Public Interest Committee and a member of the Law Society of Kenya Nairobi Branch’s Constitutional/Judicial Review Bar Bench Committee.
He also worked at the Katiba Institute, one of Kenya’s leading public interest litigation organizations. Currently, he teaches Public Law at the University of Nairobi’s School of Law Serves regularly on civil society panels on the rule of law and international criminal law and is Associate Editor with the Platform for Law, Justice and Society, a leading socio-legal publication in Kenya.

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Pandey is a professor at the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies in the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. He has been the Chairperson of the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies at JNU since 2016. Dr. Pandey's research interests include foreign policy and politics of Russia and Central Asia, regional security, and international relations. He has written several articles and books on these topics. Dr. Pandey has been associated with JNU since October 2010 and has been a faculty member at the National Law University (NLU) in Jodhpur. He has also worked as Secretary to former Union Ministers of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Defense, and Information and Broadcasting. Dr. Pandey has a Ph.D. in Law and has published two books and dozens of articles.

Gladden Pappin is assistant professor of politics at the University of Dallas. He is also the cofounder and Deputy Editor of American Affairs, as well as a senior adviser and permanent research fellow at the University of Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. He received his AB in history (2004) and his AM and PhD in government (2012) from Harvard University where his AB thesis received the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he is a sixth-generation citizen of the Osage Nation. Since 2017 he is also a Knight of Magistral Grace in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He writes on the contemporary politics of the United States and Europe, as well as the intellectual history of modern liberalism and its relationship to ecclesiastical institutions. He currently resides in Budapest with his wife Jeanette and their two children.

Rentzing studied law and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin from 1987. It was not until 1989 that he additionally devoted himself to Protestant theology in Berlin. Rentzing moved to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 1992 and then studied at the Lutheran Theological College Oberursel of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church.  From 1997 to 1999 Carsten Rentzing completed the preparatory period with congregational internship in the parishes of Oelsnitz/Vogtland and Zwota in Saxony. In 1999 he passed the Second Theological Examination in Dresden and was ordained as a pastor in Annaberg-Buchholz, in the Ore Mountains, where he also took up his first pastorate, but at the same time completed his doctorate at the University of Leipzig until 2003. In 2004, Rentzing co-founded the Martin Luther League in Saxony and in 2016 became a member of the board of trustees of the evangelism association ProChrist. From 2015 until his resignation in 2019, he was the regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony (EvLKS).

Michael A. Reynolds is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Co-Director of the Program on History and the Practice of Diplomacy at Princeton University. He is author of Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-1918, a recipient of the American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize, an American Library Association outstanding tile, and a Financial Times summer reading list selection. His commentary has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, National Interest, and War on the Rocks among other publication. He has held fellowships at Harvard University’s WCFIA and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the NYPL and most recently was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations. He is completing a biography of the Young Turk triumvir and Minister of War Enver Pasha.

Shaun Riordan is Director of the Chair for Diplomacy and Cyberspace at the European Institute of International Studies. He is also a senior research fellow of the Charhar Institute (Beijing) and a senior visiting fellow of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ("Clingendael"). He is a senior consultant with both UNITAR and UNDP for public, digital and cyber diplomacy and a research associate of the Pontifical University of Salamanca. Shaun has taught at diplomatic academies in Spain, the Dominican Republic, Bulgaria and Armenia, as well as the University of Deusto and the Financial Markets Institute in Madrid. Shaun served for 16 years in the British diplomatic service, during which time he served in New York, Taiwan, Beijing and Madrid, as well as the United Nations, Hong Kong, Counterterrorism and Eastern Adriatic Departments in the Foreign Office in London. he is the author of "The New Diplomacy" (Polity 2003), "Adiós a la Diplomacia" (Siglo XXI 2005), "The Geopolitics of Cyberspace: A Diplomatic Perspective" (Brill 2018) and "Cyberdiplomacy: Managing Security and Governance in Cyberspace" (Polity 2019). He has forthcoming books on techplomacy and business diplomacy. He has contributed numerous articles book chapters and currently has a blog. Shaun's current research interests focus on geopolitics, innovation in diplomacy and the intersection of new technologies (including AI) with geopolitics and diplomacy. He places special emphasis on the importance of interest-based diplomacy in managing geopolitical tensions. Shaun is President of BideDao Consulting which advises governments and companies on the application of diplomatic techniques and practices to the management of geopolitical volatility.

William Ruger serves as the President of the American Institute for Economic Research.

Ruger was previously the Vice President for Research and Policy at the Charles Koch Institute and the Vice President, Foreign Policy at Stand Together. Before that, he was an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Political Science at Texas State University and an adjunct Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin.

Ruger is a veteran of the Afghanistan War and was awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, among other decorations. He remains an officer in the U.S. Navy (Reserve Component). Ruger was nominated to serve as the United States Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and was a prominent advocate for ending America’s participation in the Afghanistan War. Ruger was appointed by the president to the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board in 2020.

Ruger earned his Ph.D. in Politics from Brandeis University and an A.B. from the College of William and Mary. His scholarship has appeared in a number of academic journals including International Studies Quarterly, Review of Political Economy, Civil Wars, and Armed Forces and Society. His most recent scholarship examines the relationship between military service, combat experience, and civic participation. Ruger is the author of the biography Milton Friedman and co-author of two books on state politics, including Freedom in the 50 States (now in its 6th edition).

Ruger has written op-eds for numerous outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, and he has been interviewed frequently for television and radio, appearing on Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN. He serves on several non-profit boards, including the Center for the National Interest, Defense Priorities, and The John Quincy Adams Society, as well as the Advisory Board of the Policing Project at the New York University School of Law. Ruger is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ruger resides in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He is married to Jennifer Ruger and has two sons.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Co-Chair of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, and Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor at Sunway University. He has been Special Advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary General António Guterres. He spent over twenty years as a professor at Harvard University, where he received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. Sachs has received 42 honorary doctorates, and his recent awards include the 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development, the Legion of Honor by decree of the President of the Republic of France, and the Order of the Cross from the President of Estonia. His most recent books are The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020) and Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022).

Lénárd Sándor is associate professor of law and the head of the Center for International Law at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium. He is a graduate of Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest, Hungary), where he received his J.D. (summa cum laude) in law and political sciences as well as of Canisius College (Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.) where he received his M.B.A. in international economics and global supply chain management. During his university studies, he was awarded the Fellowship granted by the Hungarian Republic. Subsequently, he took the Hungarian bar exam and received his Ph.D. in law and political sciences in the field of international public law. His doctoral studies focused on economic globalization and explored the impacts of business corporations and especially transnational and platform-based businesses on international human rights law. He was a visiting researcher at the Aarhus University (Denmark), at the Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto (Canada) and at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. (U.S.A.). He defended his Ph.D. thesis with summa cum laude from the Doctoral School of Law and Political Sciences of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University.

In the legal practice, from 2006 to 2011 he served at the Office of the Attorney General in Budapest and from 2011 to 2020 he was a chief counsel at the Constitutional Court of Hungary. From 2020 to 2022 he was working as a policy advisor at the European Parliament in Brussels where his focus was on constitutional affairs of the European integration. He has previously taught various fields of international public law including the law of international economic relations and international human rights law at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. He has published numerous articles on contemporary international legal and constitutional questions in various academic, intellectual and popular journals. His work on international economic and human rights law has been published, among others, by Edward Elgar Publishing and Central European Journal of Comparative Law. He is the author of Alkotmányjogi utazás Amerikában [Constitutional Journey in the United States] (MCC Press, 2021). He has translated, cotranslated and edited a number of books related to international law and politics or the United States of America including, among others, Joshua Muravchik, Földre szállt mennyország [Heaven on Earth] (2014), Amerikai konzervatív gondolkodók [American Conservative Thinkers] (2017), John Baylis and others, A világpolitika globalizációja [The Globalization of World Politics] (2020). He speaks English and French.

His primary research interests at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium include international economic law, the international legal approach to economic globalization along with the reform process of international investment law, international human rights law, the interpretative methods of international law with special emphasis on the dilemma of evolutionary interpretation as well as the interface of Christianity and international law.

Matthew Schmitz is a founder and editor of Compact. Previously, he was a senior editor of First Things. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Tablet, and The American Conservative, for which he is a columnist. He is the recipient of a Lincoln Fellowship from the Claremont Institute and a Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship from The Fund for American Studies. He holds an A.B. in English from Princeton University and is a native of O'Neill, Neb.

Michael von der Schulenburg, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, fled GDR in 1969, studied in Berlin, London and Paris, worked and lived for over 34 years in peace and development missions of the United Nations and briefly the OSCE in many countries weakened and torn by wars, by conflicts with armed non-state actors and/or by foreign military interventions. These included long-term assignments in Haiti, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Sierra Leone, as well as shorter assignments in Syria, Somalia, the Balkans, the Sahel and Central Asia. In 2017, he published the book On Building Peace - Rescuing the Nation-State and Saving the United Nations, AUP and published articles on UN reforms, intra-state armed conflicts, Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine.

Géza Sebestyén was previously a lecturer at the Kodolányi János College, the University of Szeged and the Corvinus University of Budapest. He has also held positions such as Director of Research at the OECONOMUS Economic Research Foundation, Member of the Board of Directors of MKB Venture Capital Fund Management and Member of the Advisory Board of the Pallas Athéné Domus Scientiae Foundation. Géza Sebestyén is a qualified mathematician and economist who has taught as a guest lecturer at the Munich Business School in Germany, the Azerbaijan Stock Exchange, ESSCA in France, the International Banking School, WU Vienna, the World Bank, the Selye János University of Révkomárom (2003-2005) and the ELTE University of Technology. He obtained his PhD degree from Corvinus University of Budapest, his research topic was dynamic stochastic banking asset resource management. He is co-author of several textbooks in English and Hungarian and has published about 20 scientific papers. His academic articles are regularly published in Macronome, but he has also appeared in Index, Portfolio and Növekedés.hu.

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Military historian, security policy analyst. His main area of research is modern interest advancement including contemporary military operations, and non-conventional means such as guerilla and irregular warfare. Graduated on the Liberal Arts Faculty, History at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in 2008. In 2012 successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the National University of Public Service, Doctoral School of Military Sciences in 2012, with the title : 4th generations warfare, new methods of interest advancement. After working for 12 years at various international companies in sales positions, he has obtained experience as a journalist, and in various defence related government positions, as well as an entrepeneur lately.His other areas of interest are past and present airforces, navies, general military technology and military history. He is an avid board and wargamer. Speaks English, German and Spanish, along with some Latin, Russian, and Farsi.

Dr. Zoltán Szalai is the director general of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) and the Editor-in-Chief of the Mandiner weekly newspaper. He completed his university studies in Budapest, Pécs and Heidelberg, and obtained his humanities and language teacher's degree in German language and literature and then his doctorate degree at ELTE, and his master's degree in human resources consulting at the University of Pécs. He is the editor and author of numerous books and studies in Hungarian, German and English.

Economist, sociologist, PhD in Political Science, Head of the School of Economics and the Workshop on Entrepreneurship Research at Mathias Corvinus College. During his career he has worked as an analyst, government official and teacher. During his analytical career, he has produced economic policy and public policy analyses, including on entrepreneurship, competitiveness, development policy, regional policy and public policy methodology. He is the founder of the Hétfa Research Institute (2009) and was the lead author of the research leading to the book Report on the State of Capitalism in Hungary (2009). Author of several academic publications on competitiveness and the functioning of domestic enterprises. As Deputy State Secretary for Economic Development (2018-2020), he led the Ministry of Innovation and Technology's enterprise policy activities and led the development of the government's strategy to strengthen small and medium-sized enterprises. As Chief of Cabinet of the Parliamentary and Strategic State Secretary of the Ministry of National Economy (2010-2012), he was in charge of economic policy results and competitiveness programmes, and led the development of the Simple State Programme focusing on administrative reduction. Previously, as Head of Department (2004-2006) and as a desk officer (1999-2000), he prepared analyses supporting the design of programmes based on EU development funds. He is a permanent lecturer at the Rajk College, a patron teacher at the Széchenyi István College, and has taught several times at the Debrecen College of Economics. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Összkép Magazine. He graduated from the Garay János High School in Szekszárd, the Budapest University of Economics and the Central European University. He was a member of the Rajk Szakkollégium.

Péter Szijjártó has been a Fidesz MEP since 2002 and began his fifth term in 2018.

From 2006 to 2010, he served as Fidesz Communications Director, from 2010 to 2012 as the Prime Minister's Spokesperson, and from 2012 to 2014 as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of the Prime Minister's Office.

From June to September 2014, he was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and subsequently Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Hungary from 23 September 2014.

Argentine sociologist (1978) with a Master's degree (1981) and a Ph.D. (1990) in International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. (USA). Currently (since July 2009) Professor of International Relations at Universidad Di Tella (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Former Professor at the Universidad de San Andrés (Victoria, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina) from 1999-2008. Lived in Colombia for 18 years between 1981 and 1998. He was Associate Professor (1995-1998) at the National University of Colombia (Bogotá), where he was Senior Researcher at the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations (IEPRI). He was co-founder (1982) and Director (1987-94) of the Center for International Studies (CEI) of the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá). He has published several books, essays and opinion articles on Argentine and Colombian foreign policy, on US-Latin American relations, on the contemporary global system and on drug trafficking, terrorism and organized crime.

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László Bernát Veszprémy graduated from the Károli Gáspár Reformed University in 2016 with a degree in History and a Master's degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from the University of Amsterdam. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the Doctoral School of Cultural History at ELTE. She was a research fellow at the Jewish journal Sabbath from 2016 to 2018, a research fellow at the Veritas Institute for Historical Research from 2017 to 2018, and a research fellow at the Hungarian Institute of Jewish History at Milton Friedman University in 2019. From 2018 to 2021, he was a researcher at the Migration Research Institute, and from 2019 to 2021 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the Jewish news portal neokohn.hu. He is currently editor-in-chief of corvinak.hu and a publicist for Mandiner.

To date, he has published four books, Murderous Offices on the History of the Hungarian Holocaust published by Jaffa, 1921 on the Early History of the Horthy Regime published by MCC Press, Migration and Anti-Semitism in the West published by MCC Press, and an online resource on the history of Zionism.

Zoltan J. Acs, Ph.D., was born in a refugee camp in Villach, Austria in 1947 to Hungarian parents who fled Hungary after the Second World War.  He immigrated to the United States in 1952 on the USS General S. D. Sturgis, a WWII troop carrier, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where he was a part of the Hungarian refugee community.  After graduating from Cleveland State University, he moved to New York City where he received his Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research. He is University Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Policy (CEP) at George Mason University USA. He is affiliated with the College of Business and Economics at the University of Pecs in Hungary. Previously he was Professor of Management at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Research Scholar at the ‘Entrepreneurship Growth and Public Policy Group’ at the Max Planck Institute for Economics in Jena, Germany. He has served as, Chief Economist at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) under two U.S. presidents, was a Research Fellow at the U. S. Bureau of the Census, Associate Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the University of Maryland and Research Fellow at the Science Center Berlin, Research Associate at the Institute on Western Europe at Columbia University and Scholar-in-Residence at the Kauffman Foundation.