Former Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai Joins JHU SAIS as Distinguished Fellow
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Former Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai Joins JHU SAIS as Distinguished Fellow
Washington, D.C.—September 28, 2011— Gordon Bajnai, former prime minister of Hungary, has joined the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) as a distinguished fellow.
Based at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations (CTR), Bajnai, who was Hungarian Prime Minister from 2009-10, periodically will give lectures to SAIS students. He will also contribute to the center’s ongoing work on strengthening transatlantic relations through NATO and the EU, and to its Central European Program.
“We are delighted to welcome former Prime Minister Bajnai to the center,” said Dan Hamilton, CTR executive director and Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Research Professor. “He brings a great deal of commitment to the transatlantic relationship and strong knowledge of European dynamics, particularly in Central Europe. Our activities will be much enhanced by his engagement.”
Bajnai joins Jose Maria Aznar, former president of the government of Spain, and Irish Prime Minister John Bruton, also distinguished fellows at CTR, as another of Europe’s former heads of government now dedicating a portion of his time to the advancement of the transatlantic relationship through SAIS.
According to the University of Pennsylvania’s “Global Go To Think Tanks Rankings,” the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations was ranked 6th among the university-affiliated think tanks in world for 2010 and has been consistently rated as one of the top-20 “go-to” U.S. think tanks in general. The center seeks to advance U.S.-European partnership in addressing the global challenges of the 21st century. For more information about CTR, visit http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu.
SAIS is one of the country’s leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international relations. Located along Embassy Row in Washington’s Dupont Circle area, the school enrolls more than 600 full-time graduate students and mid-career professionals and has trained more than 15,000 alumni in all aspects of international affairs. SAIS also has campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China.
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