Réka Szemerkényi

Introduction

Twenty-some years in politics and public administration (as Deputy State Secretary, State Secretary, Ambassador), six years in the market field (MOL President-CEO as Senior Advisor), and seventeen to forty years as analyst, expert in international and Hungarian think tanks, lecturer at foreign universities in Hungary, UK, France, USA, and CEPA think tank Executive Vice President in Washington. Member of the MOL hostile takeover defence team. Preparer of the Hungarian accession to NATO.  Preparer of the first Hungarian national cyber security strategy and law, developer of the public-private cyber security structure.
     
Hungarian and foreign medals, French Order of Honour. High level speaker at international professional conferences. Member of the Fulbright Association Board. Founder and director of a non-profit organization for child protection and women leaders. Mother of four children.
 
Areas of expertise: foreign and security policy, trans-Atlantic relations, energy security, cyber security, geo-strategies and strategy, government relations, consulting, regional and European foreign and security policy.
 
Degrees:
Master's Degrees: ELTE Budapest, IEHEI France, and SAIS JHU Washington DC
PhD: Pázmány Péter Catholic University Budapest