Carrie A. Lee is a senior fellow with GMF's Strategic Democracy Initiatives. She works on the relationship among democracy, the military, and foreign policy and strategy, and is an expert on civil-military relations. She was previously an associate professor at the US Army War College, where she served as the National Security and Strategy Department chair.
Lee holds a PhD in political science from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree from MIT. Her award-winning research and writing has appeared in publications such as Foreign Affairs, Texas National Security Review, War on the Rocks, Armed Forces and Society, International Politics, Orbis, and The Washington Post.
Lee is also a visiting scholar with the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House, contributing editor for War on the Rocks, term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a fellow with the Truman National Security Project. She has previously held academic positions at the US Air War College, Notre Dame International Security Center, and the RAND Corporation.
Brussels Forum Session: Civil Society’s Role in Building Democratic Resilience: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe
Zsuzsanna Szelényi is a Hungarian political thinker and foreign policy specialist, program director at the CEU Democracy Institute, author of “Tainted Democracy, Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary”, and nonresident senior fellow with the Center for European Policy Analysis. She was previously Richard von Weizsäcker fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy and a fellow of the Institute for Human Science’s Europe’s Futures program, conducting research on autocratization in the EU.
Szelényi was a founding member of Together, an opposition party, and served in parliament from 2014 to 2018. She worked at the Council of Europe, developing democracy throughout Europe, including in conflict regions such as the Western Balkans and the Caucasus. She also worked with international organizations in North Africa and Central and Eastern Europe.
Szelenyi started her career as a member of the liberal Fidesz party and served in parliament between 1990 and 1994. She holds master’s degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Corvinus University, and the University of Eotvos Lorand.