Dr. Bianka Speidl & Dr. Hanga Horváth-Sántha

Dr. Hanga Horváth-Sántha is senior researcher at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs since May 2023 and senior university lecturer at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary since 2022. Her research focuses on security policy, the MENA region – particularly the Israeli-Palestinian conflict –, as well as the Sahel. She obtained her law degree from Stockholm University and completed her master’s degree in public international law in Fribourg, Switzerland. She later specialized in security policy at the Centre for Asymmetric Threats and Terrorism Studies at the Swedish National Defence University, and defended her doctoral dissertation on Salafi Jihadist radicalization at the Faculty of Military Science and Officer Training at the Ludovika University of Public Service, Hungary in early 2024. She worked as Special Advisor at the Swedish Ministry of Justice, where her main area of focus was the prevention of violent extremism, further at the Crisis Management Coordination Secretariat under the Swedish Prime Minister’s Office, later for the Swedish National Police Board. She has also served as Chairperson of the Swedish Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ-S) for two consecutive years and has been volunteering as an educator in international humanitarian law at the Swedish Red Cross. She has also been commissioned as an international trial observer on several occasions in Western Sahara and Morocco.