Balázs Jarábik

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, non-resident scholar

During studying in Comenius University in Bratislava in the 1990s Balázs Jarábik was a civic activist. Later he co-founded the Bratislava-based Pontis Foundation’s international development projects in the Balkans and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Prior to joining Carnegie, Jarábik was an associate fellow at FRIDE in Madrid and senior fellow at the Central European Policy Institute in Bratislava. He also worked as a consultant for political parties and civil society organizations in the Balkans and CIS countries, as well as an adviser with wide range of international, governmental, and parliamentary institutions. Jarábik worked with Pact, Inc. in Kyiv, Ukraine, served as project director for Pact in Vilnius, Lithuania . Balázs Jarábik’s research focuses on Eastern and Central Europe with particular focus on Ukraine.