Zsuzsanna Szelényi. Richard von Weizsäcker fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy. Former MP, Hungary.
Ms Szelényi is a former MP in Hungary and foreign policy specialist. Currently she conducts research on polarization and populism as threat on democracy in the context of the future of the European Union at the CEU Democracy Institute, and earlier as Richard von Weizsäcker fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy.
Between 2014-2018 Ms Szelényi has been a liberal Member of Parliament in Hungary, covering foreign policy, migration and constitutional affairs, representing ‘Together party’. Between 2010-2013 she worked as human development consultant in various Central European and North African countries. In 1996-2010 she served at the Council of Europe. Ms. Szelényi started her political career as member of Fidesz, a youth party at the régime change in Hungary in 1988 and served as Member of Parliament until 1994.
Ms Szelényi holds GMAP degree of International Politics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, MA of Psychology of the University of Eotvos Lorand, and MA of International Relations of the Corvinus University in Budapest.
She lives in Budapest with her husband and three children.