Ágnes Bátory - president

Agnes Batory is an assistant professor and research fellow at the Central European University. She holds a law degree from ELTE Budapest and a PhD in International Relations from Cambridge University. Prior to joining CEU in 2003, she worked at the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office and had contributed to various research projects while in the UK. Her professional interests include comparative politics and public policy with a focus on European integration, transparency and good governance. She currently teaches graduate courses on these subjects including corruption control and public sector ethics, and contributes to professional training and curriculum development efforts internationally. 

András Lőke - co-president

András Lőke is an editor with HVG, editing the Trend section of the weekly. Formerly he edited the Interview section, also being author to articles on international politics and economy, mainly Middle Eastern and European affairs. He has been the chairman of the Soma Göbölyös Foundation, a civil organization for endorsing investigative journalism, since 2001. As a grantee of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in 1994 he studied grass-roots movements in the US. He took his MA degree from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in English and Oriental Studies.

Péter Holtzer - curator

Partner at ORIENS IM. Peter worked for 13 years in the Hungarian asset management industry, managed two of the leading companies, and was chairman of the fund managers’ association for a few years. He started to be involved in pension system issues during that time, and participated in the preparation of the 1997 pension reform. He has taken part in pension consulting projects for the World Bank in Nigeria, Uganda and Bosnia, among others. Besides other pension-related engagements Peter has been the chairman of the Pension and Old Age Roundtable since 2007. In recent years he has been involved in projects which are important for him, such as, besides Transparency International, working on studies dealing with growth, employment, tax system, public education and roma issues; Common Purpose Hungary; Foundation for Self Provision; „Gézengúz” Foundation for Children with Birth Injuries. He is trying to spend much time with his two children, is a heavy reader of predominantly history-related books, plays football, is a frequent visitor to classical music concerts, and tries to support some of his musician friends with ideas and contacts.

László Harmati - curator

Noémi Alexa - managing director

Noémi Alexa is an independent consultant focusing on public administration systems and the distribution and use of EU funds with special regard to regional disparities. She worked for Transparency International as the coordinator of the project Transparent Use of EU Funds in Hungary. Former deputy head of the Department of EU and International Affairs of the Ministry of Youth, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunity. She has wide experience in international relations as well as in managing EU and international projects. She took MA degrees in Spanish and Cultural Anthropology from ELTE University and holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Corvinus University of Budapest.

Ádám Földes - legal officer

Ádám Földes holds a J.D. from ELTE University, Budapest, where he wrote his thesis on video surveillance. He also holds a Master's degree in Sociology from ELTE University, Budapest and studied sociology and law at the Humboldt University in Berlin on a Copernicus Scholarship (2001-2002). Ádám has been working in the field of human rights since 2003. He conducts research, advocacy and policy development to promote and defend the right of access to information. In addition to the right of access to information, he specializes in issues relating to protection of personal data and state secrecy. Prior to joining Transparency International Hungary, Ádám led the Freedom of Information and Personal Data Protection Program of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) between 2004 and 2008. He has extensive experience of engaging in law reform, providing expert opinions at ministerial and parliamentary level, monitoring levels of access to information in practice, and managing strategic litigation and campaigning. Before joining the organisation Ádám has also contributed to the work of TI Hungary in the field of whistleblower protection as well as re Anti-corruption agencies in the frame of the NIS. He also provided expertise on right to information issues in a number of countries in Central and Eastern Europe (including Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Moldova, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, and Slovakia) as well Chile. He had acted as an expert for the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) and participated in debates in Brussels on the European Union Access to Documents Regulation and on transparency of lobbying. He participated as a civil society observer in two International Conferences of Information Commissioners (Manchester 2006, New Zealand 2007).

Emese Hortobágyi - project manager

She has an MA degree from KRE-BTK (2006) in hungarian language and literature as well as in communication studies, specialised in mass and institutional communication. After a mediator training she attended an Erasmus Summer Course in the Netherlands called Transparency in Public Communication. As she got her degree she worked as a news editor. In 2007 Emese started to learn international studies in ZSKF. Most interested in communication of international organizations.

Judit Dietz-Blaskó - project manager

Tamás Szigeti - project manager

Tamás Szigeti joined the Transparency International Hungary in 2009 - after graduating from ELTE University. He holds a J.D. degree. During his studies he participated in several human rights organisations. He was co-founder of the Constituinal Department's Student Human Rights Group. In 2007-2008 at The Eötvös Károly Institute he took part in the Electronic Freedom of Information Act compliance research. Throughout the university years he spent one year in Paris at the prestigous Law School: Panthéon-Assas Paris II, where he could broaden his legal understanding. After graduation he began his Phd study at ELTE University. His main research fields are freedom of information, freedom of speech and privacy protection. AT TI Hungary he deals mainly with public procurment and freedom of information issues.