Zsolt Bobis
M-A., M.Sc.
Curriculum
WORK AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- June 2016 – present: Associate Policy Officer
Open Society Foundations, Open Society Justice Initiative, Equality and Inclusion Program, New York, NY - August 2012 – June 2016: Program Coordinator
Open Society Foundations, Open Society Justice Initiative, Equality and Inclusion Program, New York, NY - September 2011 – July 2012: Central European University Legal Fellow
Open Society Foundations, Open Society Justice Initiative, Freedom of Information and Expression and Legal Capacity Development teams, Budapest, Hungary - October 2008 – October 2009: Intern (Professional Internship awarded by the Hungarian American Enterprise Scholarship Fund)
Hungarian Human Rights Foundation, New York, NY
EDUCATION (degree programs)
- May 2015 – May 2017: Master of Science in Journalism
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism | The Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, New York, NY - August 2010 – July 2011: Master of Arts in Human Rights
Central European University, Legal Studies Department, Budapest, Hungary - September 2003 – July 2010: Masters of Arts in American Studies, English Language and Literature, Teachers Training
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
LANGUAGES
- Native speaker of Hungarian.
- Fluent and experienced in speaking, writing and presenting in English.
- Basic German and French skills.
Author
Jusletter
Publications
- «You Are Not What You Ought To Be: Credibility Assessment in Sexuality-Based Asylum Cases,» Master’s Thesis, 2011, available at: www.etd.ceu.hu/2012/bobis_zsolt.pdf.
- «The United Kingdom’s Official Secrets Act 1989» (co-author), Analysis, 2011, available at: http://www.right2info.org/resources/publications/UKOfficialSecretsAct1989byOSJI.pdf.
- «About Ethnic Profiling,» Op-ed, Népszabadság, Hungary, July 12, 2014.
- «A Paper Tissue Dropped by A Roma?,» Op-ed, index.hu, Hungary, July 10, 2014.
- «We Pester and Protect,» Op-ed, Heti Világgazdaság, Hungary, August 28, 2014.