CCLASSLASS ooff 22017017 2017 MESSAGE FROM JULIA BUXTON

Many congratulations to our graduating class of 2017. The School of Public Policy (SPP) is proud of your achievement and we thank you for all that you have contributed to our academic community and the life of the School. I hope that the diversity of geography, experience, and perspective that you brought to SPP Acting Dean of SPP has served as an excellent learning experience and that enduring friendships remain, no matter the physical distance between you. 2017 has certainly been a memorable year for the Central European University. Alongside colleagues in the NGO and independent media communities, we faced a serious and sustained attack from the government of on our values and on our Class of 2017 identity. The most salient lesson for both CEU and SPP is that our alumnae and alumni feel an enormous sense of pride in our institution, and that they will mobilize with speed to defend threats to our existence and to academic freedom. We hope that you embrace this connection and community and become part of the global bond that unifi es our graduates, and we sincerely thank you for the initiatives that you have engaged in to defend rights and freedoms threatened in Hungary and elsewhere. I wish you every fulfi lment and success for the future and hope that your time at SPP enables you to make the strides in the direction your heart, luck, and career planning take you.

CEU l School of Public Policy 1 FACULTY AND STAFF

DEANS • Julia Buxton l Acting Dean and Professor of Comparative Politics • Edward Branagan l Associate Dean of Administration and Finance

RESIDENT FACULTY • Cameran Ashraf l Assistant Professor • Ágnes Bátory l Professor of Public Policy; Program Director, Mundus MAPP • Thilo Bodenstein l Associate Professor • Lajos Bokros l Professor of Economics and Public Policy • Emma Bullock l Assistant Professor • Cristina Corduneanu-Huci l Assistant Professor • Michael Dorsch l Associate Professor • Marko Godart Prelec l Professor of Practice; Director of the Applied Policy Project • Marie-Pierre F. Granger l Associate Professor • Evelyne Hübscher l Assistant Professor; Program Director, One-year MAPP • Kristina Irion l Associate Professor • Martin Kahanec l Professor • Achim Kemmerling l Associate Professor • Youngmi Kim l Associate Professor • Daniel Large l Assistant Professor • Liviu Matei l Professor, Provost and Pro-Rector • Anand Murugesan l Assistant Professor; Program Director, MPA • Uwe Puetter l Professor of European Public Policy and Governance • Wolfgang H. Reinicke l Professor of Political Economy • Simon Rippon l Associate Professor • Kirsten Roberts Lyer l Associate Professor of Practice • Yahya Sadowski l Professor of Political Economy • Nick Sitter l Professor of Public Policy; Public Policy Track Representative, Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations • Robert Templer l Professor of Practice • Sahana Udupa l Associate Professor • Brett Wilson l Associate Professor

2 Yearbook l CLASS of 2017 STAFF • Zsuzsanna Ágoston l Academic Curriculum Coordinator • Bernadett Báll l Events Coordinator • Katalin Dér l Administrative Assistant • Zoltán Dobák l Recruitment & Admissions Coordinator • Ann Gagliardi l Director, SPP Career and Alumni Programs • Henriett Griecs l Senior Program Manager, Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Public Policy • Katalin Hárskuti l Mundus MAPP Coordinator • Bernhard Knoll-Tudor l Director, Global Policy Academy • Susanne Lane l Director of Communications • Marton Leiszen l Student Aff airs Coordinator • Tanja Manners l Senior Program Manager, Global Policy Academy • Livia Marshall l Program Coordinator, Global Policy Academy • Zsófi a Pál l Professional Skills & Applied Learning Coordinator • Ilona Puskás l Program Assistant, Events Manager, Global Policy Academy • Lucia Sobeková l Teaching and Research Assistant • Marija Stojanovska Rupcic l Coordinator, SPP Career and Alumni Programs • Anikó Tóth l Executive Assistant to the Dean • Zoltán Wágner l Finance & Contracts Coordinator; PhD Coordinator Class of 2017

CEU l School of Public Policy 3 CLASS of 2017

Master of Arts in Public Policy

Shakro Abuseridze l Monica Acosta Alvarado l Orkhan Ahmadli l GEORGIA COLOMBIA AZERBAIJAN

Syed Ali l PAKISTAN Rahbar Ansari l NEPAL Daniel Berg l UNITED STATES [email protected] Skype: sol.etansa

Xhenson Cela l ALBANIA Ilia Chkheidze l GEORGIA Ana Maria Diez De Fex l [email protected] [email protected] COLOMBIA Skype: calum.j.cameron Skype: ilochxeidze1 [email protected] Skype: ana10defex

4 Yearbook l CLASS of 2017 Veronica Ferrari l Hilda Fleischer l Fjolla Kacaniku l KOSOVO ARGENTINA [email protected]

Andrea Kóboró l HUNGARY Irina Mammadova l Katya McClintock l CANADA [email protected] AZERBAIJAN Class of 2017

Roaa Mohamad l EGYPT Samira Naher Tazreen l Michael Parrish l ARABIA/INDIA BANGLADESH UNITED STATES [email protected]

Oleg Pasternac l Onelda Perndreca l Emma Sjokvist l SWEDEN [email protected] ALBANIA

CEU l School of Public Policy 5 Szabina Stefanf l HUNGARY Alexandra (Alex) Fikrija Tair l MACEDONIA Sveikauskas l UNITED STATES [email protected] [email protected] Skype: fiki.t Skype: alex.sveikauskas

Mary Thompson l CANADA Shijoy Varughese l INDIA Jordan Weinberg l UNITED STATES

Theresa Weippert l GERMANY [email protected] Skype: theresa.ale

6 Yearbook l CLASS of 2017 Master of Public Administration

Ravshan Abdullaev l Marcela Adamova l Yahya Al-Abdullah l SYRIA TAJIKISTAN SLOVAKIA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Class of 2017

Tonia Asimakopoulou l Minh Mark Bui l VIETNAM Mario Cifuentesf l GREECE GUATEMALA [email protected]

Liliana Fernandez l Gaspar García-Huidobroí Fatlum Gashi l KOSOVO VENEZUELA Rodríguez l CHILE [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Skype: Lilianitagf

CEU l School of Public Policy 7 Armine Hakhinyan l Aila Hauru l FINLAND Almir Huseini l SERBIA ARMENIA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Skype: ailahauru1

Andrea Ignáczá l HUNGARY Mastona Khalilova l Mahitab M. Mahgoub l [email protected] TAJIKISTAN SUDAN [email protected] [email protected] Skype: mastona-khalilova Skype: mahitab.mustafa

Michele Massacesi l ITALY Corrado Minardi l ITALY Zóraóá Molnár l HUNGARY [email protected] [email protected] Skype: michele.massacesi1 Skype: m.zorka

Archimedes Muzenda l Hanh Nguyen l VIETNAM Sikhathele Nkala l ZIMBABWE [email protected] ZIMBABWE Skype: hanhnguyenkt92 [email protected] Skype: skha.nkala

8 Yearbook l CLASS of 2017 Meagan Patterson l Zoltán Ranschburg l Faryal Sajjad l PAKISTAN CANADA HUNGARY [email protected] [email protected] Skype: meagan.mary.patterson

Nicholas Sertich l USA Sebastian Soto l CHILE Tamara Stupalova l CZECH REPUBLIC [email protected] Class of 2017

Aron Suba l HUNGARY Mara Tissera Luna l Raman Tkachou l BELARUS [email protected] ARGENTINA Skype: a.suba89 [email protected] Skype: mara.tissera

Elisa Totino l ITALY Anna Dorottya Zsoldos l [email protected] HUNGARY Skype: eli.toti [email protected] Skype: dorka.zsoldos

CEU l School of Public Policy 9 Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Public Policy

Levan Abashidze l GEORGIA Isabelle Adam l GERMANY Anshu Adhikari l NEPAL [email protected] [email protected] Skype: anshu.adhikari

Ekaterine Chikhladze l Anna Costa l ITALY Andrei Curararu l MOLDOVA GEORGIA [email protected]

Aziz Davlatov l TAJIKISTAN Benjamin Jance IV l Johannes Kröhnert l [email protected] THE PHILIPPINES GERMANY Skype: aziz.davlatov [email protected] [email protected] Skype: johannesk92

10 Yearbook l CLASS of 2017 Michele MacMillan l USA Mette C. Risom Olsen l Matthias Schenk l GERMANY NORWAY [email protected] [email protected] Skype: matthias_s217 Skype: mcrolsen

Quyen Tran l VIETNAM Ahmad Massieh Zare l GERMANY [email protected] Class of 2017

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Stefanf Roch l GERMANY [email protected]

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