CEU alumni Aleksander Tarkowski (SOCI '07) and Marek Antos (LEGS '13), and Department of Sociology Associate Professor Prem Kumar Rajaram were named to the New Europe 100 list of changemakers in Central and Eastern Europe.
Compiled by the Financial Times, Google, the Visegrad Fund and Res Publica, New Europe 100 highlights the region's "brightest and best" people and organizations with creative solutions in society and politics, business, media and culture.
Aleksander was cited for promoting flexible copyright models. A sociologist, copyright reform advocate and researcher of digital society, he is director of Centrum Cyfrowe, a think-and-do-tank building a digital civic society in Poland.
He is also public lead of Creative Commons Poland, the Polish branch of the global organization of the same name.
Marek, the founder of Internet Info, one of the first Czech online publishing houses, was cited for successfully combining business with academia. He has continued to develop his flexible copyright models, for which he also works as a European Policy Fellow. Marek is also vice-chairman of the .cz national domain registry and teaches and publishes in the field of constitutional law at Charles University in Prague.
Professor Rajaram was cited for his leadership of the CEU Open Learning Initiative (OLive), which offers courses for refugees in Hungary, and was also mentioned for his work directing CEU's Roma Graduate Preparation Program (RGPP), which served as a model for the OLIve program.
Congratulations, gentlemen!