Then: Economist

Later: Co-Founder of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Deputy Mayor of Budapest, and Deputy Managing Director of Transparency International

Communist Europe had few nongovernmental organizations in 1986, when Hungarian Miklos Marschall attended one of the Seminar’s first sessions on the role of NGOs. Marschall became an early advocate of the third sector in the region and credits the Seminar as being “directly responsible for the introduction and establishment of NGOs in Central and East Europe.” He has since been a Seminar faculty member and chair of other civil society-focused sessions. Marschall co-founded CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, was deputy mayor of Budapest, and served as deputy managing director of Transparency International until his retirement in early 2018.