37 Notable alumni of
Central European University
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Central European University is 1612th in the world, 557th in Europe, and 13th in Hungary by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 notable alumni from Central European University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Giorgi Marghvilashvili
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- politicianphilosopher
- Biography
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Giorgi Margvelashvili is a Georgian academic and politician who was the fourth president of Georgia, in office from 17 November 2013 to 16 December 2018.
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Péter Ungár
- Enrolled in Central European University
- In 2015 graduated with master's degree in environmental policy and environmental science
- Occupations
- geographerpolitician
- Biography
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Péter Károly Ungár is a Hungarian entrepreneur, politician and geographer, who is a Member of the National Assembly of Hungary from the LMP party's national list since 8 May 2018. He has been male co-chair of the party since August 2022.
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Mailis Reps
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- lawyerpolitician
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Mailis Reps is an Estonian politician, a member of the Estonian Centre Party. She served as the Minister of Education and Research from 2002 to 2003, 2005 to 2007 and 2016 to 2020.
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Emin Amrullayev
- Enrolled in Central European University
- Studied in 2003-2004
- Occupations
- statesperson
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Emin Eldar oglu Amrullayev, is serving as the minister of education of the Republic of Azerbaijan since July 2020 and President of the Azerbaijan Basketball Federation since 2021. He served as director of the Institute of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan from January 2020 to July 2020 and as Head of the Education Programs Development Department at the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan from March 2015 to January 2020.
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Monica Macovei
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- human rights defenderlawyerpolitician
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Monica Luisa Macovei is a Romanian politician, lawyer and former prosecutor, and former Member of the European Parliament from the European Conservatives and Reformists and formerly a member of the Romanian Democratic Liberal Party (PDL). She was the Minister of Justice of Romania in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu. In this position she was credited with implementing the justice reforms required for Romania to become a member state of the European Union. Macovei was also an independent candidate in Romania's 2014 presidential elections.
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Lívia Járóka
- Enrolled in Central European University
- Studied in 1998-1999
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lívia Járóka is a Hungarian politician. She is a Member of the European Parliament, first elected as part of the Fidesz list in 2004. Járóka is the second Romani (and the first Romani woman) ever elected to the European Parliament (after Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia from Spain, who served from 1986 to 1999).
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Ilgar Mammadov
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- politician
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Ilgar Mammadov is an opposition politician in Azerbaijan, and one of the leaders of the Republican Alternative Party. Mammadov was considered a likely candidate for the Presidential elections in October 2013, but was arrested in February 2013, prior to the race, in a move that was widely seen as politically motivated.
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Sławomir Dębski
- Enrolled in Central European University
- Studied in 1994
- Occupations
- historianpolitical scientist
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Sławomir Jan Dębski is a Polish historian who has served as director of Polish Institute of International Affairs from 2007 until 2010 and again from 2016 until 2024. He previously headed The Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding (2011–2016), and was a member of the Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Matters. He was assistant professor of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (2007–2010) and Warsaw University (2010–2014). Furthermore, he is a presenter at Kanal Zero.
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Marija Golubeva
- Enrolled in Central European University
- Studied in 1995
- Occupations
- politicianhistorianlecturerpolitical scientistpolitical historian
- Biography
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Marija Golubeva is a Latvian politician of Russian descent, political scientist, and historian. She is a member of the 13th Saeima and leader of the Development/For! Saeima fraction, and she also was elected by the Presidium of the Saeima to serve in the Saeima Secretariat. She served as Minister of the Interior of Latvia. In her academic work, she specializes in immigration policy and education policy.
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Nicu Popescu
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- civil servantauthordiplomatpolitician
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Nicolae "Nicu" Popescu is a Moldovan diplomat, author, and politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova from 6 August 2021 until 26 January 2024 in the Gavrilita and then Recean cabinets. He was also Moldova's Foreign Minister from 11 June to 14 November 2019 in the Sandu Cabinet. He is now a distinguished fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and visiting professor at Sciences Po-Paris. With Tiago Antunes, former state secretary for EU affairs in Portugal, he currently co-chairs an ECFR task force on 'lessons-learned' from the war in Ukraine consisting of several European foreign policy personalities.
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Gent Cakaj
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Gent Cakaj is a Kosovo-born Albanian politician, who served as the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania from 2019–2020.
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Tina Khidasheli
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
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Tinatin "Tina" Khidasheli is a Georgian jurist and politician. A Republican Party member and former civil society activist, she was appointed as Georgia's Minister of Defense on 1 May 2015, becoming the country's first ever female defense minister. She resigned on 1 August 2016, after her party decided to leave the ruling Georgian Dream coalition.
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Grigorii Golosov
- Enrolled in Central European University
- Studied in 1995
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitical scientist
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Grigorii Vasilyevich Golosov, sometimes spelled as Grigory Golosov, is a Russian political scientist. He is a professor and the head of the political science department at the European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia. He is an expert on political institutions and electoral systems, in particular, in application to Russia. His article "Electoral Systems and Party Formation in Russia" (Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 36, No. 8, October 2003, pp. 912–935) received a Lawrence Longley Award from the American Political Science Association for the best journal article on electoral systems and representation published in 2003.
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Larysa Denysenko
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- lawyerwriterjournalist
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Larysa Volodymyrivna Denysenko is a Ukrainian writer, lawyer, human rights activist, TV and radio presenter, and member of the PEN Ukraine.
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Tomasz Kamusella
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- historianpolitical scientistuniversity teacher
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Tomasz Kamusella FRHistS is a Polish scholar pursuing interdisciplinary research in language politics, nationalism, and ethnicity.
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Andrei Oișteanu
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- writerhistorianhistorian of religionliterary historianliterary critic
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Andrei Oișteanu KSR is a Romanian historian of religions and mentalities, ethnologist, cultural anthropologist, literary critic and novelist. Specialized in the history of religions and mentalities, he is also noted for his investigation of rituals and magic and his work in Jewish studies and the history of antisemitism. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he also became noted for his articles and essays on the Holocaust in Romania.
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Volodymyr Yermolenko
- Enrolled in Central European University
- Studied in 2003
- Occupations
- opinion journalistessayistwriterphilosophertranslator
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Volodymyr Yermolenko is a Ukrainian philosopher, essayist, translator, doctor of political studies (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences: EHESS, Paris), candidate of philosophical sciences (Kyiv, 2009), and senior lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He is laureate of the Yurii Sheveliov Prize (2018) and of the Petro Mohyla Award (2021).
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Gergely Böszörményi Nagy
- Enrolled in Central European University
- Studied in 2017
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Gergely Böszörményi-Nagy is an entrepreneur and former public servant who founded Brain Bar and the current chairman of the board of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.
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Anna Brzezińska
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- historianwriter
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Anna Brzezińska is a Polish writer.
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Jaroslav Miller
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- university teacherhistorian of Modern Agehistoriannon-fiction writerpedagogue
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Jaroslav Miller is a Czech historian who is a professor of history and rector at Palacký University in Olomouc. His focus is urban studies, the history of political thought and more recently also issues related to Czech and Slovak exile.
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Ruxandra Cesereanu
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- essayistnovelistshort story writerresearcherpoet
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Ruxandra-Mihaela Cesereanu or Ruxandra-Mihaela Braga is a Romanian poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and literary critic. Also known as a journalist, academic, literary historian and film critic, Cesereanu holds a teaching position at the Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB), and is an editor for the magazine Steaua in Cluj-Napoca.
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Orsat Miljenić
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Orsat Miljenić is a Croatian lawyer, diplomat, and politician currently serving as Chief of Staff of the Office of the President of Croatia. He served as Croatia's Minister of Justice from 2011 to 2015, in the Cabinet of Zoran Milanović.
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Tamta Melashvili
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- explorerscreenwriterwriter
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Tamta Melashvili is a Georgian writer and a feminist activist.
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József Berényi
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- politician
- Biography
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József Berényi is a Hungarian minority politician from Slovakia. He was the Chairman of the Party of the Hungarian Coalition of Slovakia in 2010-2016.
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Mariana Kotzeva
- Occupations
- statisticianeconometrician
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Mariana Mihaylova Kotzeva is a Bulgarian statistician and econometrician. Since the beginning of 2017 she has been the acting director-general of Eurostat, the directorate-general of the European Commission responsible for providing statistical information to the institutions of the European Union and for harmonizing statistical methods across the Union. She is also the former president of the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria.
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Gábor Scheiring
- Enrolled in Central European University
- Studied in 2004-2005
- Occupations
- economistsociologistpolitician
- Biography
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Gábor Scheiring is a Hungarian economist and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) from Politics Can Be Different (LMP) National List between 2010 and 2014.
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Rasul Jafarov
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- juristhuman rights defender
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Rasul Aghahasan oghlu Jafarov is a lawyer and prominent human rights defender in Azerbaijan.
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Rashadat Akhundov
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Rashadat Fikrat oglu Akhundov is a youth activist and co-founder of N!DA Civic Movement. He was arrested on March 30, 2013 a few days after the protests held in Baku against the non-combat deaths in the military. Akhundov was accused in preparing the riots during the protests. International human rights organization, Amnesty International recognized him as a prisoner of conscience. He was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment on May 6, 2014, but later pardoned and released on March 17, 2016 being imprisoned for three years.
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Tsvetelina Penkova
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- politician
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Tsvetelina Marinova Penkova is a Bulgarian politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 elections.
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Jurij Toplak
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- jurist
- Biography
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Jurij Toplak is a constitutional scholar, university administrator, election law, and human rights expert. He is professor at University of Maribor and the head of the Cultural Formations research group at the Alma Mater Europaea University, and recurring visiting professor at the Fordham University School of Law in New York. Since 2016, he has served as the provost and vice-president of the Alma Mater Europaea university. The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe published his legal comments. Toplak is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and serves as the co-chair of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) Freedom of Expression research group.
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Jasna Koteska
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- writerphilosopheropinion journalistuniversity teacher
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Jasna Koteska is a Macedonian writer, philosopher and academic.
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Darko Angelov
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North Macedonia - Enrolled in Central European University
- Studied in 2003-2004
- Occupations
- diplomat
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Darko Angelov is a former Macedonian ambassador to Greece. Previously, in 2014 he was briefly the foreign affairs adviser to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia. From 2010 to 2014, he was the ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia to Hungary and from March 2012, he was the first Macedonian, non-resident ambassador to Nigeria and the country's first ever ambassador assigned to Sub-Saharan Africa. In July 2012 Ambassador Angelov also took over the position of a non-resident ambassador to Kazakhstan
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Ivan Lesay
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- economistwriterpolitician
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Ivan Lesay is a Slovak political scientist, economist, civil servant, columnist and writer. In the years 2015–2017, he served as State Secretary of the Finance Ministry.
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Przemysław Bobak
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- diplomatcivil servant
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Przemysław Jacek Bobak is a Polish diplomat, ambassador of Poland to Ethiopia (2020–2024), ambassador of the European Union to Chad (2024–2025).
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Nikola Burazer
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- editor-in-chiefprogram directorjournalistpolitical scientist
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Nikola Burazer is a Serbian political scientist, journalist, program director of Center for Contemporary Politics and executive editor of European Western Balkans.
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Bojan B. Dimitrijević
- Enrolled in Central European University
- 1995-1996 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Bojan B. Dimitrijević is a Serbian historian and politician. A former member of the Democratic Party (DS), he was a vice-president of Serbia Centre (SRCE) from 2022 to 2023.
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Antoaneta Sabău
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- researcherclassical philologistmedievalist
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Antoaneta Sabău is a Romanian classicist, translator and editor. Her main contribution are mainly in the field of medieval and translation studies.
