CEU Alumni
CEU is proud to have over 8,500 alumni working in more than 100 countries around the world. The Alumni Career Report illustrates where our alumni come from and where they go on to live and work after CEU. Because CEU attracts outstanding students and provides excellent education, many of our graduates take on leadership positions within only a few years after graduation. We keep in touch with and provide a wide range of services for our alumni via the Alumni Relations and Careers Services Unit. Click here to find out more about CEU alumni and career services, events and activities in Budapest and worldwide.
The profiles of CEU alumni listed below represent a few select examples of the various career paths our graduates undertake after university.
Profiles of selected CEU alumni
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Gedion T. Hessebon received his LLB (2007) from the Addis Ababa University, Faculty of Law and his LLM in Comparative Constitutional Law (2009) from CEU. He had served as a graduate assistant and assistant lecturer in the Addis Ababa University School of Law before joining the CEU as an S.J.D student. He has been admitted to the doctoral program of the Legal Studies Department in 2010. The focus of his dissertation will be on the contextualization of constitutionalism in Africa.
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E-learning and Web-based Academic Communications Support CoordinatorI have worked previously at the Electronic Information Services (EISZ), the main Academic Electronic Database Provider in Hungary, one of my main tasks was user support.
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probationary doctoral candidate
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Post-doctoral fellowGuntra Aistara is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy in the Environmental and Social Justice Action Research Group, and heads the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Sovereignty Program at CENSE. Her PhD research focused on the development of organic agriculture movements in the culturally, ecologically, and politically diverse contexts of Latvia and Costa Rica. Her current research interests include small farmer strategies for resilience in the face of climate change and economic crisis, the intersection of permaculture principles and practices with traditional knowledge, and movements for seed sovereignty and environmental justice.
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Academic Director of MBA ProgramsAssociate Professor of Management and International BusinessYusef Akbar joined the CEU Business School as an associate professor of Management and International Business, and in 2008 became the director of MBA programs.
Akbar has taught at universities and business schools all over the world, including University of Michigan, Stockholm School of Economics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Queen’s University, Canada, European Business School, London, ISM Paris, University of Warsaw and University of Montenegro. His main research interests are international trade and investment, management development in Central and East Europe, and non-market strategies of emerging-market multinationals. -
Emel Akçali graduated in International Relations at both the American University (Paris, BA) and at the Université de Galatasaray (Istanbul, MA). She obtained her PhD in Political Geography at the Geography Institute of Paris IV-Sorbonne in France. She worked at the Political Science and International Studies Department of University of Birmingham as an honorary research fellow and a visiting lecturer and taught at Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland before joining IRES. Her research interests are the (trans-formation of national identities in the age of globalisation, Political Islam, EU democratisation efforts in its periphery, the development of non-Western and alternative globalist geopolitical discourses and ethno-territorial conflicts and their resolution.
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doctoral candidate
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Head of DepartmentHead of the Specialization Religious Studies, Director of the Religous Studies Program
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