Dora Hegedus is a PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Political Science at Luiss University, Rome. She is originally from Budapest and has lived for seven years in the UK. The provisional title for her thesis is “Towards a Europe of Subregions? Investigating the Illiberal Challenge of the Visegrad Group”.

E-mail: dhegedus@luiss.it

CV: 

  • PhD Candidate in Politics at Luiss University (2020-2024)
  • MSc degree in Global Europe: Culture and Conflict, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  • B.A. in International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
  • Events Manager at LSE IDEAS, the foreign policy think thank of LSE
  • Research and Events Assistant at the Economics, Investment and Trade Section of the Embassy of Hungary in London (2015-2017)

Research Interests: 

European Integration, EU Governance, Regionalism, Central and Eastern European Politics, Visegrad 4, Democratic Backsliding, Rule of Law, EU Enlargement, Migration and Refugees, NGEU