Dr. habil. Péter Rada

Dr. Péter Rada earned his PhD in Political Science in 2011 from Corvinus University of Budapest and completed his habilitation in Public Administration in 2023 at the National University of Public Service. Between 2008 and 2009, he was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher in the United States at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., and Columbia University in New York. Since 2022, he has served as Vice Rector for International Affairs at Budapest Metropolitan University (METU), where he has also been a faculty member since 2012. Previously, between 2015 and 2017, he worked as a diplomat at the Hungarian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and before that, he gained teaching and research experience at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, as well as at various Hungarian and international universities. He has been visiting professor In the USA, India, Colombia, Argentina, Israel, Egypt, Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic, Italy, France, Germany, Greece and Turkey. His international recognition is demonstrated by his role as a Global Faculty member at Arizona State University and as a Memorial Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the US. He is also Co-Chair of the “World Orders – RC40” Research Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the world’s largest political science organization. Additionally, he is the founder and president of the Corvinus Society for Foreign Affairs and Culture, a Budapest-based think tank focusing on international politics and security policy, and a member of the Munich Young Leaders group. He has authored over 100 scientific articles and book chapters on security policy and transatlantic cooperation and has contributed as co-author and editor to several books on foreign policy.