Alumni News

Czakó Named to Forbes List of the 50 Most Influential Women in Hungary

April 9, 2015
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The Hungarian edition of Forbes magazine named CEU alumna Borbála Czakó (IMC '90), global partner at Ernst & Young, one of the 50 most influential women in business in Hungary. Czakó earned an MBA from CEU Business School in 1990, and won CEU’s 20th Anniversary Alumni Hero award in 2011.

Alumni and Students Rock Open Mic Show

April 3, 2015
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Approximately 100 CEU students and alumni got together for a jam session during CEU’s Open Mic Show, Thursday, April 2nd at the CEU School of Public Policy building. (Check the pics.) 

Thanks to the dozens of performers who enlivened the evening with their music, dance and spoken word performances. The event was sponsored by the CEU Student Life Office, the Center for Arts and Culture and the Alumni Relations team.

History Alumna Baar Wins ERC Consolidator Grant

April 1, 2015
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CEU alumna Monika Baar (HIST’ 95) won an consolidator grant from the European Research Council worth €2 million for her innovative research project Rethinking Disability: The Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective.

IRES Alumna Ostrauskaite Hosts Security Lecture in Bishkek

March 19, 2015
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CEU alumna Dr.Rasa Ostrauskaite (IRES ’01 MA, ’07 PhD) hosted a lecture titled “The Role of the [Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe] in Conflict Prevention and Management: New Challenges?” at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek on March 3.

Dr. Ostrauskaite is the Deputy Director of the OSCE’Conflict Prevention Centre of the OSCE in Vienna. Her talk in Bishkek focused on the current crisis in Ukraine, particularly as a turning point in the OSCE’s conflict management activities.

POLS Alumnus Renwick Tapped for UCL Spot

March 19, 2015
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Dr. Alan Renwick (POLS ’97 MA, ’98 MPhil) will begin work in September as Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit of the University College of London’s Department of Political Science.

An expert in electoral systems and reforms, Dr. Renwick described his new appointment as “a match made in heaven.”

He is currently Associate Professor (Reader) at the University of Reading, and has previously held numerous academic positions at the University of Oxford.