At the Core of CEU's Mission Lies a Set of Principles

At the core of CEU’s mission lies a set of principles: the pursuit of truth wherever it leads, respect for the diversity of cultures and peoples, and commitment to resolve differences through rational debate and the instrument of democracy. 1

Central European University | is a graduate- level “crossroads” university where faculty and students from some 100 countries come to engage in interdisciplinary education, pursue advanced scholarship, and address some of society’s most vexing problems.

Central European University is a graduate institution “CEU is a great experiment.... Founded in 1991 in response to the revolutionary changes that were Its goal was to rekindle transforming Central and Eastern Europe, CEU is based on the premise of advanced research and teaching, dedicated to intellectual freedom and to that human fallibility can be counterbalanced by the critical discussion build an open society on socially and morally responsible intellectual inquiry. the ruins of totalitarianism. of ideas and that this critical spirit can be sustained best in societies where It was a daring experiment people are free to choose the nature and direction of their government. and it's still going on today.”

President and Rector Located in Budapest and accredited in the United States and Hungary, John Shattuck CEU draws on the research tradition of great American universities and Graduation Address 2013 on the most valuable intellectual traditions of Central Europe. It offers English-language programs in the social sciences, humanities, business, law, environmental sciences, mathematics, and public policy.

With some 1,400 students and 400 faculty members from over 100 countries, CEU is one of the most densely international universities in the world. Its rare mix of nationalities, ethnicities, and cultures creates an ideal environment for sharing perspectives and challenging assumptions. Students, faculty, researchers, and visitors come togeth- er to explore such intriguing topics as emerging democracies, transi- tional economies, media freedom, constitution building, nationalism, human rights law, and conflict resolution. 2 3

DISTINCT APPROACH CEU’s distinctive academic approach combines regional studies with an international perspective.

A master’s student might, for example, take a course such as the sociology of ethnic prejudice, accountability for war crimes, or media freedom in a pluralist world, examining theories and cases from various parts of the world. Recent doctoral dissertations explored “legal regulation of non-main- stream religious groups” and “self- reflection in post-criminal societies: from denial to moral responsibility.” The Center for Policy Studies is conduc- ting a cross-national study to shed light on public knowledge and attitu- des on human trafficking. And CEU Business School offers professionals on three continents the chance to earn an MBA via a seven-school international executive education partnership.

Open Society Hungarian-American financier train future generations of Between 1991 and 2013, CEU has graduated 11,000 students, who and philanthropist, who found- scholars, professionals, are living and working in 120 countries on five continents. In 1989, a group of visionary ed CEU two years later in 1991. politicians, and civil society intellectuals from Central and leaders to contribute to building As CEU proceeds into its third decade, open society values and Eastern Europe—including Soros championed the project open societies that respect practices are being tested worldwide. Reemerging nationalism prominent members of the because he believed that open human rights and adhere to erodes international cooperation. Racism and xenophobia anti-totalitarian democratic societies flourish best when the rule of law. foment discrimination and violence. New surveillance technologies opposition—conceptualized an people in positions of responsi- erode privacy. And climate change threatens environmental and international university that bility are prepared to advance CEU opened in three cities economic stability. At the same time, struggles for self-gover- would help facilitate the transi- democratic principles. His simultaneously: Budapest, nance in countries as disparate as Egypt, Burma, and South Su- tion from dictatorship to de- vision was to recruit professors Prague, and Warsaw. A single dan demonstrate the difficulties of change. Through its faculty, mocracy in the region. Among and students to build a unique consolidated campus was students, and alumni, CEU is engaged with such challenges every them was George Soros, the institution, one that would established later in Budapest. day, worldwide. 4 5

Students Sampling of undergraduate ALMA MATERS “My interest in energy policy began when I in- “ In Nairobi, where I grew up, 60 percent Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary) | University terned for the U.S. State Department in Prague. of the population lives in slums on less than of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) | Keio University The EU’s goal of generating 20 percent of energy 5 percent of the residential land. We had CEU students come to Budapest (Japan) | University of Warsaw (Poland) | University with renewable sources by 2020 had recently youth groups trying to change things and, from almost 100 countries every of Delhi (India) | University of Toronto (Canada) | Ad- been adopted by the Czech Republic and, with for me, questions of justice arose very clearly. year. These are the contours of dis Ababa University (Ethiopia) | American University policies to promote investment in the solar in- Before coming to CEU, I was a program dustry, interest was high. Though these policies coordinator at Kituo Cha Sheria (Centre for the 2012-13 student body: in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) | Rochester Institute of turned the country into one of the world’s Legal Empowerment). We lobbied heavily for Technology (USA) | University of the Andes (Colombia) largest solar producers, they also led to mar- changes to the Kenyan constitution to include | University of California, Berkeley (USA) | University ket distortions and higher electricity prices. community land rights that aligned better Number of Manchester (UK) | International University Bremen | 1,371 | Retroactive legislation to rectify the problems with socioeconomic rights and justice. In (Germany) —and subsequent lawsuits—offers a cautionary 2010, 67 percent of Kenyans voted to approve Countries represented tale about intervention in the energy sector.” the new constitution with these provisions.” | 92 | Sampling of student organizations Age range CEU Debate Society | Human RightS Initiative (HRSI) | Ashley Quisol | Country of origin: USA Githii Mweru | Country of origin: Kenya | 20 to 63 | Dance Club | Economics Discussion Club | Photography M.A., Department of Public Policy SJD, Department of Legal Studies

INTERDISCIPLINARITY Complex societal challenges require problem-solvers with diverse but complementary knowledge and skills. At CEU, students learn to think multi- dimensionally about such subjects as bioethics and corporate responsibility, climate change and media freedom, data privacy and terrorism.

“Transnational Environmental Politics” is a course offered by the departments of International Rela- tions and European Studies and Environmental Sciences and Policy that explores conflicts over resources essential for security, specifically energy, food, and water. Another course, "Empires," taught by the departments of Gender Studies and Medieval Studies, examines unequal relationships of power and social position, highlighting the legal, political, and sociocultural conse- quences of empire-building.

Academics CEU has achieved global In both traditional and emerging Erasmus Mundus master's programs delivered in concert with oth- recognition for a variety of its fields, CEU emphasizes the im- er leading European institutions: in public policy, environmental Central European University academic programs—including portance of crossing disciplinary sciences and policy management, and gender studies. Funded by has 14 departments and two political science, international lines to address complicated is- the European Union, these highly competitive and prestigious schools in the social sciences, relations, public policy, sues. It pursues creative ways programs award scholarships to top students worldwide to foster humanities, business, law, philosophy, and sociology— of integrating theoretical research intellectual cooperation and research in Europe. environmental sciences, while investing in exciting new with professional practice. And mathematics, and public fields such as cognitive science it convenes leading thinkers CEU draws on the wealth of knowledge and perspectives its policy. Its newest addition is the and network science. Within from around the world to explore multicultural student community provides. With an outstanding School of Public Policy, which the region, many of its pro- the roots of modern societal 8:1 student/faculty ratio, CEU enables faculty members to help enrolled its inaugural class for grams enjoy premier status, challenges. Among CEU's degree develop students’ critical thinking skills and to explore their the 2013-14 academic year. including business and law. programs are three two-year individual research interests. 8 9

Faculty SAMPLING OF GRANT SOURCES "Should a child be physically healthy, as “I am interested in how religions emerge European Research Council | European Union similar as possible to the parents, or endowed from and interact with broader historical Framework 7 Programme | European Union Life- with the best possible genetic make-up? These parameters and how they might be com- CEU attracts faculty from Long Learning Programme | European Union Marie conflicting values have provoked public debate pared to one another. Is Islam really, around the world who bring Curie Programme | European Union Jean Monnet and resulted in legal decisions rejecting em- as is often claimed, a religion apart from their subject matter to life for Program | Open Society Foundation | Korea Foundation bryo selection and genetic testing based on others? What conceptual instruments are concern for the protection of unborn life while called upon to analyze religious phenomena students with a rare degree of | Velux Foundation | Siemens Stiftung | Volkswagen granting permission for abortions after pre- and, among other things, account for the Stiftung | Institute for New Academic Thinking | personal attention, thanks to natal diagnosis at a later stage of pregnancy. present resurgence in public relevance OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) | Hungar- CEU’s extraordinary 8:1 student/ At CELAB, we focus on the intersection of of religion? I explore these themes in the ian Development Agency | Carnegie Corporation faculty ratio. Faculty members law and advances in biomedical technologies. classroom and in independent research, put a premium on being both This is a daunting and inspiring task as ever- at the confluence of the Center for Religious Sampling of FACULTY-PUBLISHED BOOKS newer technologies constantly challenge Studies and the departments of History inspiring teachers and superb Hungary and Romania Beyond National Narra- already negotiated legal and ethical principles." and Medieval Studies.” researchers. tives: Comparisons and Entanglements | Democ- racy’s Fourth Wave: Digital Media and the Arab Judit Sandor | Country of origin: Hungary Aziz al-Azmeh | Countries of origin: Syria/ Spring | Wiley Handbook of Global Energy Policy | Professor, Departments of Political Science, Legal Britain | University Professor, Department of Faculty population Studies, and Gender Studies | Director, Center for Leibniz, God and Necessity | The Feast and the Pulpit: History | Director, Center for Religious Studies | 202 resident | 198 visiting | Ethics and Law in Biomedicine Preachers, Sermons and the Cult of St. Elizabeth of Countries represented Hungary 1235 ca. 1500 | Networks in Social Policy | 39 | Problems | Down by Law: Numerus Clausus in Grant money received in 2012 Hungary 1920-1945 | Capitalist Diversity on | €5.96 million EUR | Europe's Periphery Increase in grant money from 2010 to 2012 | 82.8% | Sampling of FACULTY ALMA MATERS

Central European University has been a mission-driven institution since its inception. That mission – with open-society principles at its core – is a powerful magnet for people worldwide.

Central European University is a graduate institution of advanced research and teaching, dedicated to socially and morally responsible intellectual inquiry. CEU’s distinctive educational program builds on the research tradition of the great American universities; on the most valuable Central European intellectual traditions; on the international diversity of its faculty and students; on its commitment to social service; and on its own history of academic and policy achievements in transforming the closed com- munist inheritance. CEU is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. It aims at excellence in the mastery of established The CEU mission A level of academic inquiry that The creation of an Openness and self-reflection, Preserving a multiple intellectual identity: an institution Interdisciplinary and problem-focused The integration of theoretical Civic engagement in addressing knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the is supported answers to the highest international international promotion of critical thinking, rooted in Central Europe, drawing on the model of American approaches to teaching and research, and practical knowledge, societal problems and educating social sciences, law and management, and engagement in promoting applications by a set of standards in research and teaching community of scholars pursuit of truth wherever it may graduate education, open to the history and culture of other and their integration, stemming from both for purposes of scholarly students to be citizens of the world, for each, in particular through their policy implications. CEU is a new model for inter- core values and while encouraging innovation and drawn from countries lead, and resolution of differences regions, defined by the diversity of its faculty and students, CEU’s young and flexible institutional inquiry and for the training connected to their own communities national education, a center for study of contemporary economic, social and political commitments intellectual risk-taking across the world through debate, not denial with no single dominant nationality and a global perspective structures and disciplinary boundaries of practitioners and to others different from themselves challenges, and a source of support for building open and democratic societies that respect human rights and human dignity. 16 17

NEW KNOWLEDGE CEU scholars shed new light on subjects both contemporary and historical. For example: Associate Professor Martin Kahanec disproved the myth that unemployment benefits in richer EU countries draw immigrants from poorer EU countries. Professor Maria M. Kovacs traced the legal roots of Hungarian anti-Semitism to higher- education quotas imposed in 1920, demonstrating that they predated Nazi influence. Cognitive scientist and Associate Professor Natalie Sebanz found that people's racial biases changed after participating in testing that made them feel their own hands were colored differently. And research fellow Amy Brouillette developed a graphic representation of Internet governance in Iran to understand how Iran’s hardliners are trying to centralize state censorship.

percent, from €3.26 million to several dozen universities. For €3.3 million project, “Neuro-Enhancement: Responsible Research Research €5.96 million. Funding sources example within the “Quality in and Innovation,” in partnership with 17 other research centers CEU has established its repu- include the European Union’s Gender and Equality Practices” across Europe. CEU’s Department of Economics has received tation as a research-intensive Framework Programs, the Eu- comparative research project, three highly prestigious European Research Council (ERC) university through the out- ropean Research Council, the CEU coordinates a research grants in the past two years, enabling it to create a world-class standing work of its faculty United Nations, government team with members from 10 research cluster in the field that centers on interconnected members, 17 interdisciplinary agencies, private foundations, European countries. research into knowledge flows, behavioral theory, and social research centers, and some international NGOs, and other networks. CEU’s Center for Policy Studies is collaborating with dozen less structured faculty/ private and public sources. A recent example of external seven universities in the “Reducing Early School Leaving in the EU” student research groups. The European Commission, funding involves CEU’s research project, which aims to provide insights into students' alone, is funding 42 ongoing Center for Ethics and Law in decisions. And researchers at CEU's Center for Network Science From 2010 to 2012, external research projects that CEU Biomedicine, which began work tackle issues as diverse as creativity in teams, the role of research funding grew by 82.8 conducts in collaboration with in spring 2013 on a three-year technology in civic activism, and organizational design. 18 19

Alumni Sampling of employers ”I am devoted to guaranteeing the right to health ”From Togo, I travel to dozens of other lesser devel- United Nations | World Bank | Organization for for Latin American children. Our organization oped West African countries to help them cultivate is making significant strides in improving the climate change mitigation projects, most notably Security and Co-operation in Europe | European Union CEU’s alumni network consists odds for Mexican children, in particular. We ones that focus on clean energy and energy efficiency. institutions (especially European Commission and Euro- partnered recently with DHL in 29 of Mexico’s 32 There are over 6,700 clean development projects of more than 11,000 graduates pean Parliament) | University of Oxford | U.S. Agency states to speed up vital post-natal testing that can from over 80 countries registered with the UN’s living and working in some 120 for International Development | International Organiza- identify treatable disabilities, reducing the wait for Clean Development Mechanisms. These endeavors countries. They include EU and tion for Migration | Accenture | Allen and Overy | Moscow results from 90 days to nine. Also, we worked with have resulted in over 1 billion certified emission Mexico’s largest flour producer to add folic acid— reduction credits—more commonly known as carbon State University | White and Case | Erste Bank | Abbott national parliamentarians, a vitamin known to prevent birth defects—to its credits—that can be traded and sold and used by in- ministers, ambassadors, UN Laboratories | IBM | General Electric | Citibank product, making the Mexican staple of tortillas dustrialized countries to meet part of their emission- more nutritious.” reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol.” officers, international affairs Sampling of positions experts, economists, policy- Sustainability Expert (Russia) Ernst and Young | Lecturer Klaudia Gonzalez-Martinez | Country of Chunyu Liang | Country of origin: China origin: Mexico Environmental Sciences and Policy (ENVS) ‘07 makers, business leaders, (Nigeria) Afe Babalola University | Researcher International Relations and European Studies (IRES) ’03 Technical Officer, Togo Regional Office, academics, international law (Mongolia) Institute for Strategic Studies | Professor Director of International Affairs, Red Nacional Secretariat of the United Nations Framework (Albania) Universiteti Vitrina | Senior Advisor (Hungary) para la Prevencion de la Discapacidad Convention on Climate Change scholars, and human rights (National Network for Disability Prevention) ACTIVISTS. KPMG | Researcher (Lithuania) Public Policy and Man- agement Institute | Head of Office (Mozambique) UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Program Analyst (France) UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Orga- Countries of residence | 119 | nization | Policy and Communication Officer (Switzer-

ISSUES-FOCUSED EVENTS CEU hosts more than 500 events a year. Internationally distinguished speakers come regularly to discuss solutions to challenges as diverse as stabilizing the euro zone, ending impunity for perpetrators of war crimes, parsing moral questions of life extension, and convincing world leaders to pursue the most far- reaching climate change policies.

Recent conferences have explored subjects including The Individual vs. the State, Challenges of Urbanization, and The Radical Right in East Central Europe. While prominent lectures have addressed wide-ranging topics including The Alchemy of Austerity, The Tragedy of Leon Trotsky, Forgot- ten Refugees, Iran at a Crossroads in History, Living in Surveillance Societ- ies, and Militarizing the Arab Spring.

Engagement implementation and enforce- mental governance. And for the pare outstanding Roma students to pursue graduate-level edu- ment of environmental law in Office of the UN High Commis- cation, conduct advocacy work, and serve as role models and CEU is committed to making six accession countries. For the sioner for Refugees: Provided leaders for the Roma community. CEU and Turkey’s Sabanci tangible contributions to Organisation for Economic a day of training on high-level University cooperate to provide financial support to projects society. And one important Co-Operation and Develop- diplomacy and negotiation to 15 in foreign policy, globalization, human rights, international way it contributes is via faculty ment: Investigated online pri- senior officials. development, conflict analysis and resolution, and democrati- work for organizations vacy and protection of children. zation. CEU Business School cooperates with Hungary’s Na- requiring expert assistance. For the UN Environmental Apart from individual projects, tional Innovation Office, the American Chamber of Commerce Programme: Developed a CEU is involved in hundreds of in Hungary, the U.S. Embassy, and the Hungarian Venture These are a few recent examples program for promoting the Bali partnerships within the region Capital Association, among others, to promote innovation and of sponsoring organizations and Guidelines on Rio Principle 10, and worldwide. The only one entrepreneurship. CEU's School of Public Policy hosts forums tasks: For the European Com- focused on improving nations’ of its kind in the world, CEU's for policy professionals in partnership with bodies such as Rev- mission: Assessed the legal structures on environ- Roma Access Programs pre- enue Watch International and the Migration Policy Institute. 22 23

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University Leadership John Shattuck | President and Rector Katalin Farkas | PROVOST AND ACADEMIC PRO-RECTOR Liviu Matei | SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT AND Chief Operating Officer Laszlo Kontler | Pro-Rector for Hungarian and EU Affairs

Board of Trustees CEU is a model for international education; a center for study George Soros | Honorary Chairman | Soros Fund Management LLC of contemporary economic, social, and political challenges; Leon Botstein | Chairman | Bard College Richard C. Blum | Richard C. Blum & Associates, Inc. and a source of support for building open and democratic Attila Chikan | Corvinus University societies that respect human rights and human dignity. Antonio Foglia | Banca del Ceresio Group Patricia Albjerg Graham | Harvard University Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr. | Harvard Kennedy School of Government Chaviva M. Hosek | Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Monica Macovei | Member of the European Parliament Kati Marton | Author, Journalist and Scholar Mary Patterson McPherson | American Philosophical Society Pierre Mirabaud | Mirabaud & Cie Peter A. Nadosy | East End Advisors William Newton-Smith | Open Society Foundations Matthew Nimetz | General Atlantic George E. Pataki | Chadbourne & Parke LLP Wanda Rapaczynski | AGORA John Shattuck | CEU President and Rector Robert Soros | Soros Fund Management LLC Christopher Stone | Open Society Foundations central Nador u. 9 Non-discrimination Policy | Central European University does not discriminate on the basis of— including, but not limited to—race, color, national or ethic origin, religion, gender, or sexual orientation in 1051 Budapest | Hungary european administering its educational policies, admissions policies, employment, scholarship or loan programs, or university athletic or other school-administered programs. www.ceu.hu