David Koranyi

David Koranyi is the director of the Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative at the Atlantic Council. He has been a nonresident fellow at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations since 2010. Koranyi served as undersecretary of state and chief foreign policy and national security advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary, Gordon Bajnai (2009-2010). He worked in the European Parliament as chief foreign policy adviser and head of cabinet of a Hungarian MEP (2004-2009). Previously, he was a political adviser at the Hungarian National Assembly and a junior researcher at GKI Economic Research Institute, in Budapest, Hungary. Koranyi is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council, the Hungarian Europe Society, and a Concordia Advisor. He obtained his master's degree in international relations and economics, with a major in foreign affairs from Budapest Corvinus University.