35 Notable alumni of
Central European University

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Central European University is 1720th in the world, 580th in Europe, and 13th in Hungary by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 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.

  1. Giorgi Marghvilashvili

    Giorgi Marghvilashvili
    Born in
    Georgia Flag Georgia
    Years
    1969-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    philosopherpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  2. Adam Bodnar

    Adam Bodnar
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Enrolled in Central European University
    Studied in 2001
    Occupations
    university teacherlawyerjuristhuman rights activistpolitician
    Biography

    Adam Piotr Bodnar is a Polish lawyer, educator, human rights activist and politician who currently serves as Minister of Justice. He was the 7th Polish Ombudsman from 2015 until July 2021.

  3. Péter Ungár

    Péter Ungár
    Born in
    Hungary Flag Hungary
    Years
    1991-.. (age 33)
    Enrolled in Central European University
    In 2015 graduated with master's degree in environmental science and environmental policy
    Occupations
    politiciangeographer
    Biography

    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.

  4. Mailis Reps

    Mailis Reps
    Born in
    Estonia Flag Estonia
    Years
    1975-.. (age 49)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  5. Monica Macovei

    Monica Macovei
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyerhuman rights activist
    Biography

    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.

  6. Lívia Járóka

    Lívia Járóka
    Born in
    Hungary Flag Hungary
    Years
    1974-.. (age 50)
    Enrolled in Central European University
    Studied in 1998-1999
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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).

  7. Ilgar Mammadov

    Ilgar Mammadov
    Born in
    Azerbaijan Flag Azerbaijan
    Years
    1970-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  8. Marija Golubeva

    Marija Golubeva
    Born in
    Latvia Flag Latvia
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Enrolled in Central European University
    Studied in 1995
    Occupations
    historianpoliticianpolitical historianpolitical scientistlecturer
    Biography

    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.

  9. Gent Cakaj

    Gent Cakaj
    Years
    1990-.. (age 34)
    Occupations
    civil servant
    Biography

    Gent Cakaj is a Kosovo-born Albanian politician, who served as the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania from 2019–2020.

  10. Tina Khidasheli

    Tina Khidasheli
    Born in
    Georgia Flag Georgia
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  11. Larysa Denysenko

    Larysa Denysenko
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    journalistwriterlawyer
    Biography

    Larysa Volodymyrivna Denysenko is a Ukrainian writer, lawyer, human rights activist, TV and radio presenter, and member of the PEN Ukraine.

  12. Grigorii Golosov

    Grigorii Golosov
    Born in
    Kazakhstan Flag Kazakhstan
    Years
    1963-.. (age 61)
    Enrolled in Central European University
    Studied in 1995
    Occupations
    political scientistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Grigorii V. Golosov, sometimes spelled as Grigory Golosov, is a Russian political scientist. He is a professor and the Head of Political Science Department at the European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia. He is notable as 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 of the American Political Science Association for the best journal article on electoral systems and representation published in 2003.

  13. Sławomir Dębski

    Sławomir Dębski
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Enrolled in Central European University
    Studied in 1994
    Occupations
    political scientisthistorian
    Biography

    Sławomir Jan Dębski is a Polish historian who has served as director of Polish Institute of International Affairs from 2007 until 2010 and again since 2016. 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).

  14. Tomasz Kamusella

    Tomasz Kamusella
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    historianuniversity teacherpolitical scientist
    Biography

    Tomasz Kamusella is a Polish scholar pursuing interdisciplinary research in language politics, nationalism, and ethnicity.

  15. Andrei Oișteanu

    Andrei Oișteanu
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Years
    1948-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    literary criticliterary historianhistorian of religionhistorianwriter
    Biography

    Andrei Oișteanu 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.

  16. Jaroslav Miller

    Jaroslav Miller
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    historian of Modern Agehistorianuniversity teacherpedagogue
    Biography

    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.

  17. Gergely Böszörményi Nagy

    Gergely Böszörményi Nagy
    Born in
    Hungary Flag Hungary
    Years
    1984-.. (age 40)
    Enrolled in Central European University
    Studied in 2017
    Occupations
    businessperson
    Biography

    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.

  18. Ruxandra Cesereanu

    Ruxandra Cesereanu
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Years
    1963-.. (age 61)
    Occupations
    short story writernovelistessayistpoetresearcher
    Biography

    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.

  19. Bojan B. Dimitrijević

    Bojan B. Dimitrijević
    Born in
    Serbia Flag Serbia
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Enrolled in Central European University
    1995-1996 graduated with Master of Arts
    Occupations
    historian
    Biography

    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.

  20. Anna Brzezińska

    Anna Brzezińska
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    writerhistorian
    Biography

    Anna Brzezińska is a Polish writer.

  21. Volodymyr Yermolenko

    Volodymyr Yermolenko
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1980-.. (age 44)
    Enrolled in Central European University
    Studied in 2003
    Occupations
    writeressayistopinion journalisttranslatorphilosopher
    Biography

    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).

  22. József Berényi

    József Berényi
    Born in
    Slovakia Flag Slovakia
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  23. Orsat Miljenić

    Orsat Miljenić
    Born in
    Croatia Flag Croatia
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  24. Rasul Jafarov

    Rasul Jafarov
    Born in
    Azerbaijan Flag Azerbaijan
    Years
    1984-.. (age 40)
    Occupations
    human rights activistjurist
    Biography

    Rasul Jafarov is a lawyer and prominent human rights defender in Azerbaijan.

  25. Mariana Kotzeva

    Mariana Kotzeva
    Born in
    Bulgaria Flag Bulgaria
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    econometricianstatistician
    Biography

    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.

  26. Ketevan Tsikhelashvili

    Ketevan Tsikhelashvili
    Born in
    Georgia Flag Georgia
    Years
    1978-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Ketevan Tsikhelashvili was the State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality in Georgia from 2016 to 2020. In 2020 she became an ambassador to Austria

  27. Rashadat Akhundov

    Rashadat Akhundov
    Born in
    Azerbaijan Flag Azerbaijan
    Years
    1984-.. (age 40)
    Biography

    Rashadat 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.

  28. Gábor Scheiring

    Gábor Scheiring
    Born in
    Hungary Flag Hungary
    Years
    1981-.. (age 43)
    Enrolled in Central European University
    Studied in 2004-2005
    Occupations
    politiciansociologisteconomist
    Biography

    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.

  29. Jurij Toplak

    Jurij Toplak
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    jurist
    Biography

    Jurij Toplak is a constitutional scholar, university administrator, election law, and human rights expert. He is a 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.

  30. Jasna Koteska

    Jasna Koteska
    Born in
    North Macedonia Flag North Macedonia
    Years
    1970-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    writeruniversity teacheracademicopinion journalistphilosopher
    Biography

    Jasna Koteska is a Macedonian writer, philosopher and academic.

  31. Darko Angelov

    Darko Angelov
    Enrolled in Central European University
    Studied in 2003-2004
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    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

  32. Ivan Lesay

    Ivan Lesay
    Born in
    Slovakia Flag Slovakia
    Years
    1980-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    politicianwritereconomist
    Biography

    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 of the Slovak Republic.

  33. Nikola Burazer

    Nikola Burazer
    Born in
    Serbia Flag Serbia
    Years
    1988-.. (age 36)
    Occupations
    journalistprogram directoreditor-in-chiefpolitical scientist
    Biography

    Nikola Burazer is a Serbian political scientist, journalist, program director of Center for Contemporary Politics and executive editor of European Western Balkans.

  34. Przemysław Bobak

    Przemysław Bobak
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1974-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    civil servantdiplomat
    Biography

    Przemysław Jacek Bobak is a Polish diplomat who serves an ambassador of Poland to Ethiopia (since 2020).

  35. Antoaneta Sabău

    Antoaneta Sabău
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Years
    1982-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    classical philologistresearchermedievalist
    Biography

    Antoaneta Sabău is a Romanian classicist, translator and editor. Her main contribution are mainly in the field of medieval and translation studies.