ISTVÁN PÓCZA is an expert on international affairs. He is the Director of Research for Danube Institute. He earned his BSc. and MSc. degrees in European Studies from the Institute of Political and International Studies at ELTE University. In 2015–2016 he worked at the Migration Research Institute. Parallel, he worked at Századvég Foundation first as a Research Fellow, then as a Senior Research Fellow until 2018. In 2018–2020 he has worked as Senior Research Analyst at the Budapest-based Center for Fundamental Rights as an expert on foreign relations focusing primarily on European politics, especially Austria and Germany.