What Our Alumni Say

"What Our Alumni Say" is a space for former students to share how the CEU Department of Political Science has shaped—and continues to shape—their lives.
Scroll down to hear from some of your fellow alumni.

Have a story of your own? We'd love to hear it! Email us at polsci@ceu.edu.

Annamaria Orban (PhD '03)

July 23, 2014
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Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Communication, Budapest University of Technology and Economics "The CEU PhD program helped a mother of two kids near 40 to speed up her academic carrier… "

Evgeni Evgeniev (MA '01, PhD '07)

July 23, 2014
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First Secretary at Permanent Representation of Bulgaria to the European Union “CEU is a meeting place for people of different cultures, knowledge and experience. "

Mano Toth (MA '11)

July 23, 2014
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PhD, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge "My time at CEU was very rewarding. Engaging in thought-provoking debates expanded my vision and allowed me to go beyond the rather top-down learning experience of my undergraduate years"

Jennifer Yip (MA '11)

July 23, 2014
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Supervisor, Survivors of Trafficking Empowerment Program (STEP), Refugee Services of Texas "CEU has allowed me develop my capacity in many ways. The activities organized on and off campus made me more socially active and the courses more academically-driven. "

Miles Maftean (MA '11, PhD '12)

July 23, 2014
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Lecturer, Eotvos Lorand University

"My experience at CEU led me to develop a whole different idea of what learning actually is - it isn't simply obtaining and retaining truth and justifying this truth, but understanding what truth means to all different groups of people around the world"

Winne Ko (MA '11)

July 23, 2014
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Project and Policy Officer at International Diabetes Federation Europe "CEU is truly global and the 10 month experience not only filled up my intellectual capacity, but also changed my way of thinking about the wider world"

Armin Häberle (MA '05)

July 23, 2014
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Executive Editor, CFO Insight Print, Head of Research, Financial Gates Gmb

"CEU has provided me with totally new insights not only into a fascinating and ever-changing region of the world, it has also made me study rigorously and diligently due to excellent teachers, great seminars, state-of-the-art resources and the highest academic standards. I have been benefitting from this education for all of my professional life and continue to do so today."

Yuliana Palagnyuk (MA '04)

July 23, 2014
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Head of the Jean Monnet Department, Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Policy and Management, Institute of Public Administration, Black Sea Petro Mohyla State University in consortium with “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” "CEU was a wonderful experience as it helped me to grow both professionally and personally. "

Endre Danyi (MA '03)

July 23, 2014
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Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main "The Central European University is all about transformation and movement. It is about the fascination with the ways in which societies, places and practices transform – sometimes slowly, sometimes overnight."

Emilia Lubenova (MA '08)

July 23, 2014
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Business Development Expert at New - I JSC, Bulgaria "CEU and my Budapest experience are very precious to me, I will always keep them in my heart. You helped me to be what I am now - I feel young and successful and it is sure that you contributed a lot to this feeling of mine"