George Soros and the Roma: Praxis, Equity and Empowerment

Andrew Ryder is a British academic and social justice campaigner based in Budapest. He is a Professor at Eötvös Loránd University and Director of the Institute for Political and International Studies and was a board member of the Roma Education Fund. Prior to this, he was an academic at the Corvinus University Budapest, University of Bristol and before entering academia was the researcher to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (based in the Westminster Parliament) and Policy Officer for the Gypsy and Traveller Law Reform Coalition (winners of the Liberty Human Rights Award in 2004).

Balázs Majtényi is from Hungary and is a professor at Eötvös Loránd University, he holds a law degree and a history MA (both from Eötvös Loránd University). He completed his Ph.D. at the same institution in political sciences. His research interests include social history, nation-building, citizenship and human rights, with a focus on issues of minority, migrant, and refugee protection, the Hungarian public law turn and social history of the Hungarian Roma.

Frank Thomas Zsigó is a Canadian/Hungarian political scientist and assistant professor at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He has worked with a number of Roma NGOs in Hungary and served as a consultant to Roma organizations at the midway point of the Decade for Roma Inclusion. He has recently conducted research on the situation of Ukrainian Roma refugees in Hungary.