Central European University

Central European University "was founded in 1991 with the explicit aim of helping the process of transition from dictatorship to democracy in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. It was committed to bringing together students from these 30 countries and from Western democracies, and to nurturing respect for diverse cultures and opinions, human rights, constitutional government, and the rule of law. These aims – all in step with promoting the values of the Open Society – remain fundamental to CEU, but we now cast our web wider. CEU continues to attract students from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia but almost 50% of the applicants come from other parts of the world."


 * President - John Shattuck (as of 2009)

Trustees
Accessed July 2009:


 * Liviu Matei, CEU Senior Vice-President and COO, signing the Magna Charta Universitatum during a ceremony at the University of Bologna.
 * Yehuda Elkana, President and Rector - Chair
 * Howard Michael Robinson, Provost/Academic Pro-Rector
 * Karoly Bard, Pro-Rector for Hungarian and EU Affairs

Trustees
Accessed July 2009:


 * George Soros, Honorary Chairman of the Board (Soros Fund Management LLC, New York)
 * Leon Botstein, Chairman of the Board (Bard College, New York)
 * Gunter Stock, Vice-Chair (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
 * Gerhard Casper (Stanford University, Stanford)
 * Akos Detrekoi (Hungarian National Council for Communications and Information Technology)
 * Yehuda Elkana (CEU President and Rector)
 * Patricia Albjerg Graham (Harvard University)
 * Vartan Gregorian (Carnegie Corporation of New York)
 * Chaviva M. Hosek (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto)
 * Wilhelm Krull (Volkswagen Stiftung, Hannover)
 * Pierre Mirabaud (Mirabaud & Cie, Geneva)
 * Monica Macovei (CEU alumna, Legal Studies 1993) (Advisor on Anti-Corruption to the Prime Minister of Macedonia)
 * Peter A. Nadosy (Morgan Stanley, New York)
 * Aryeh Neier (Open Society Institute, New York)
 * William Newton-Smith (Open Society Foundation, London)
 * Matthew Nimetz (General Atlantic, Greenwich, US)
 * Mary Patterson McPherson (American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia)
 * Wanda Rapaczynski (AGORA, Warsaw)
 * Jonathan Soros (Soros Fund Management LLC, New York)
 * Adam Tertak (Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Contact

 * Web: http://www.ceu.hu

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