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Staff Members

László Majtényi

Lawyer, chairman of the institute

László Majtényi’s areas of expertise are constitutional law, the freedom of information and the ombudsman institutions.

He has been a lecturer at several universities and he is a solicitor. He is a doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2008 and 2009 he was the chairman of the National Radio and Television Authority, during which he suspended his activities at EKINT. Between 1995 and 2001 he was the first parliamentary commissioner for data protection in Hungary, and before that, between 1990 and 1995 he was a legal advisor at the Constitutional Court. He authors numerous publications, books, book chapters and articles published in Hungary and abroad.

Zoltán Miklósi

Political philosopher

Senior researcher of the Eötvös Károly Policy Institute.

Zoltán Miklósi is an associate professor lecturing in political philosophy at Central European University, Department of Political Science. He pursued his doctoral studies at ELTE and at the New School for Social Research in New York, and earned his PhD degree in 2005 at ELTE. Working as an expert for Freedom House between 2000 and 2002, he was the main author of the 2001 and 2002 reports on Hungary.

Domokos Lázár

Legal expert

Researcher of the Eötvös Károly Policy Institute.

Domokos Lázár is a legal expert, junior researcher of the Eötvös Károly Policy Institute, Budapest, PhD student at the Doctoral School of Law of ELTE, Budapest, DLA student at Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE, Budapest. His research field concerns the legal and sociological aspects of populism, state propaganda, moral panic, anti-discrimination and equal opportunities.

Ágnes Kovács

Legal expert