We are proud that we had more than 700 students from more than 50 countries since the establishment of our department. Below you find more information on the placement of our alumni.
To our alumni, we are always pleased to hear about your latest professional and personal achievements. Please send us a short email to keep us updated with what's going on with your life.
quicklinks: Alumni careers in Public Service, NGOs, other fields, and Political Science
Alumni Profiles in Public Service:
Michael Canham: Director of International Relations, Western Cape Government, South Africa
Bogdan Chiritoiu: Deputy Chief Advisor in the Presidential Office in Bucharest, Romania
Olga Crivoliubic: Councilor to the Minister at the Ministry of Education and Youth in Moldova
Natalia Lopatina: Vice Consul at the Embassy of Ukraine in Australia
Irmina Matonyte: Vice-Rector at the European Humanities University in Lithuania
Rudolf Michalka: Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Slovakia in Ankara, Turkey
Vidmantas Purlys: Director of the EU Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Lithuania
Ilona Raugze: Deputy Director at the Ministry of Regional Development of Latvia
Margit Sarv: Gender Equality Commissioner in Estonia
Dovile Survilaite: Spokesperson for the Lithuanian Embassy in London, United Kingdom
Tanel Tang: Attaché at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Estonia
Peter Vagi: Department Head for Strategic Research in the Office of the Prime Minister in Budapest, Hungary
Kumar Bekbolotov: Programme Director at the Institute for War & Peace Reporting for Central Asia
Joerg Forbrig: Senior Program Officer for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), based out of the German Marshall Fund's office in Bratislava, Slovakia
Anastasia Gnezditskaia: Program Coordinator for the Clean Energy Program at Winrock International, Washington D.C., USA
Samuel Gultom: Program Officer for Human Rights and Access to Justice at TIFA Foundation, Indonesia
Catherine Hudon: former OSCE officer in Vukovar, currently Regional Manager for Europe of the World Hemophilia Organization in Montreal, Canada
Mantas Jersovas: Project Manager for the International Organization for Migration in Lithuania
Vitaly Merkushev: Executive Director at Eurasian Political Studies Network, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Isaack Otieno: Democratic Governance Expert at the Canadian International Development Agency, Nairobi, Kenya
Sanja Pesek: former Deputy Director of Freedom House, Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, now PhD student at CEU
Eric Schmelling: Director of International Fundraising for The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, USA
Ales Vidmar: Counselor to the Director, Leonardo da Vinci Programme, CMEPIUS, Centre of the Republic of Slovenia for Mobility and European Educational and Training Programmes, Slovenia
Alumni Careers in Other Fields:
Dionizas Bajarunas: President of Babel Lietuva
Peter Bajomi-Lazar: Head of the Zsigmond Kiraly College, Budapest, Hungary
Istvan Benczes: Associate Professor in World Economy at the Corvinus University, Hungary
Maria Danilova: Associated Press News Correspondent in Moscow, Russia
Tatyana Godlevskaya: Commercial FP&A Manager at General Electric, USA
Ildiko Kaposi: Assistant Professor in Communication at the American University of Kuwait
Neven Petrovic: Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Rijeka, Croatia
Reka Pigniczky: News Producer at Associated Press and Film Director, Hungary
Kinga Szuly: Political Reporter, Representation of the European Commission to Hungary
Matthew Utterback : Vice President of Business Development at Digital Divide Data in Philadelphia, USA
Gallina Andronova Vincelette: Economist at the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Group in The World Bank, Washington D.C., USA
Eric Beckett Weaver: defended his doctoral thesis in History at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Alumni Careers in Political Science:
Marat Akopian: Professor at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Regina Akopian: Professor at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Nurcan Ozgur Baklacioglu: Assistant Professor at the University of Istanbul, Turkey
Pavel Barsa: Associate Professor, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Gergely Bognar: Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University, USA
Srbobran Brankovic: Assistant Professor at Megatrend University, Belgrade, Serbia
Irina Culic: Assistant Professor, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Zidas Daskalovski: Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Center for Research and Policy-Making, University of Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia
Grigori Golosov: Associate Professor of Political Science at the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia
Tania Gosselin: Professeure régulière at the University of Quebec, Canada
Sorin Ionita: Associate Lecturer at the Political Science Department of the National School of Political and Administrative Studies and a Political Commentator on the news channel Realitatea TV in Bucharest, Romania
Mehmet Umut Korkut: Assistant Professor at the University College Dublin, Ireland
Andrey Kunov: Associate Director at CREES (Center for Russian, East European&Eurasian Studies), Stanford University, USA
Asta Maskaliunaite: Lecturer at the Academic War and Conflict Studies at the Baltic Defence College, Estonia
Annamaria Orban: Assistant Professor in the Sociology and Communication department at the Budapest University of Technology, Hungary
Dusan Pavlovic: Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Belgrade, Serbia
Alan Renwick : Junior Research Fellow, specialist in East Central European Politics at New College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Peter Stamatov: Lecturer at Yale University, USA
Svetlana Stamenova: Research Fellow at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Semra Turkovic-Hrle: Adjunct Professor, International Relations Department at Webster University Vienna, Austria
Noemi Wells: Lecturer at Institute for Social and European Studies, Szombathely, Hungary
Artur Wolek: Director of Department of Theory and Philosophy of Politics at Business College – National – Louise University in Nowy Sącz, Poland
Desislava Zagorcheva: Lecturer at Oxford University, United Kingdom