Zsolt Bobis

CV

• 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

• 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

• Native speaker of Hungarian.
• Fluent and experienced in speaking, writing and presenting in English.
• Basic German and French skills.

 

• «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.