András Bozóki is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest and Vienna (since 1993). His research areas include democratization, regime change, anarchism, political ideologies, and the role of intellectuals. He holds diplomas from Eötvös Loránd University in Law (1983) and Sociology (1985). He received PhD in Political Science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1992). He is a holder of the Ferenc Erdei Prize (1991) and István Bibó Prize (2009). He was President of the Hungarian Political Science Association (2003-5). He was a recurrent visiting professor at Columbia University. He worked as research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, just as in Florence (Italy), Vienna (Austria), Brighton (UK), Stockholm (Sweden), Wassenaar (The Netherlands), and at the UCLA. He served as Minister of Culture in the Republic of Hungary (2005-6). His recent books: Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals (2022), Embedded Autocracy (2024).