Prof. István GYARMATI, Ph.D.
Prof. Dr. István Gyarmati is the President & CEO of the International Centre for Democratic Transition. He has been a Foreign Service officer since he graduated from the Budapest University of Economics, Faculty of Diplomacy. Ha also holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and is a candidate of Strategic Studies. Ambassador Gyarmati is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Euro Atlantic Integration and Democracy in Budapest and Co-Chairman of the International Security Advisory Board for Southeastern Europe of the Geneva-based Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. Between 2008 and 2009, he was the head of the Defense Minister's Task Force to draft the National Military Strategy of the Republic of Hungary. He is also a member of the ISS, European Council for Foreign Relations, European Advisory Group, NATO Defense College and numerous scientific projects, Associate Professor at the Zrínyi Miklós National Defense University. He is fluent in German, Russian and English as well as he is the author of numerous publications on security policy, European security, conflict management and Hungarian defense policy.