Alumni Stories

Alumna Philipp Passes

March 14, 2019
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We are deeply saddened to report the passing of alumna Marie Philipp (NATI ’16), who was aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, which crashed Sunday, March 10. She was 28 years old.

Alumna Stavrevska Publishes on 'Economies of Peace'

February 4, 2019
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Alumna Elena B. Stavrevska (IRES '08, POLS PhD '17) co-authored Economies of Peace: Economy Formation Processes in Conflict-Affected Societies, recently published by Routledge. Congrats, Elena! Learn more about the book. 

CEU Alumni Launched Startup Lands Two Million Euro Investment

January 17, 2019
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Talk-A-Bot, the chatbot startup launched by CEU alumni Akos Deliaga (BUSI’ 16) & Gergely Kalydi (BUSI’ 16) and incubated at the CEU Innovations Lab, recently landed a 2 million investment to expand its business in Central Europe and Southeast Asia. See full story.

Alumnus Bekbolotov Passes

January 3, 2019
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CEU alumnus Ilyas Bekbolotov (IRES ’96) passed away on December 26, 2018, after a long illness.

A citizen of Kyrgyzstan, Ilyas worked as a translator, a press secretary and from 2002 to 2005 as Head of Protocol for the administration of former Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev.

He is survived by a wife and daughter. Our deepest condolences to Ilyas’s family, friends and fellow alumni.