András Braun

Program Officer at the Bratislava Office, International Republican Institute

Warsaw Security Forum

András joined IRI’s Transatlantic Strategy Division in June 2021 and works as Program Officer in the Institute’s Bratislava Office. At IRI, he is working on the Transatlantic Security Initiative (TSI) which is an annual program giving young professionals from Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary first-hand experience and expertise needed to be champions of a Transatlantic-centered national security policy. Previously he was working for a Hungarian think tank’s representation office in Brussels, and also got experience in the EU’s enlargement policy while he was a Blue Book Trainee at the European Commission. He earned his Ph.D. degree in political sciences in 2020 from the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary. He also had the opportunity to study the democratic transition of the Western Balkans while he was in Sarajevo and Belgrade between 2016 and 2017.

András Braun

Program Officer at the Bratislava Office, International Republican Institute

Warsaw Security Forum

András joined IRI’s Transatlantic Strategy Division in June 2021 and works as Program Officer in the Institute’s Bratislava Office. At IRI, he is working on the Transatlantic Security Initiative (TSI) which is an annual program giving young professionals from Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary first-hand experience and expertise needed to be champions of a Transatlantic-centered national security policy. Previously he was working for a Hungarian think tank’s representation office in Brussels, and also got experience in the EU’s enlargement policy while he was a Blue Book Trainee at the European Commission. He earned his Ph.D. degree in political sciences in 2020 from the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary. He also had the opportunity to study the democratic transition of the Western Balkans while he was in Sarajevo and Belgrade between 2016 and 2017.