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David Koranyi

David Koranyi is deputy director of the Council's Patriciu Eurasia Center.

Mr Koranyi is also a non-resident fellow at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations. Previously he served as under-secretary of state and chief foreign policy and national security advisor to the prime minister of the Republic of Hungary, Gordon Bajnai in 2009-2010. He worked in the European Parliament as foreign policy advisor and head of cabinet of Hungarian MEP Csaba Tabajdi between 2004-2009. Previously he was a political advisor at the Hungarian National Assembly and a junior researcher at GKI Economic Research Institute, in Budapest, Hungary.

Mr Koranyi is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council, and the international advisory board of the XII Project. He was a member of the Hungarian NATO Strategic Concept Special Advisory Group, recipient of the German Marshall Fund’s 2010 Marshall Memorial Fellowship (MMF), MMF Selection Board Member in 2011 and beneficiary of the French Foreign Ministry’s Personalities of the Future Fellowship in 2012.

Mr Koranyi has published articles and studies on energy security, Hungarian and US foreign policy, European integration and the Western Balkans. He is the editor of a book Transatlantic Energy Futures - Strategic Perspectives on Energy Security, Climate Change and New Technologies in Europe and the United States published in December 2011 by Johns Hopkins SAIS CTR.

Mr Koranyi pursued undergraduate studies in political economy and business administration and obtained a master’s degree in international relations and economics, with a major in foreign affairs at Corvinus University of Budapest. 

He can be contacted at dkoranyi@acus.org

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