Selected Alumni Profiles

Mária Éva Földes

November 22, 2021

Mária Éva Földes is an alumna of the CEU Legal Studies Department’s Human Rights MA program. She later completed her PhD at CEU at the joint doctoral degree program co-organized by the Legal Studies and Political Science departments under the supervision of Prof Dr Judit Sándor and Prof Dr Csilla Kollonay-Lehoczky. Her PhD research focused on the emerging mandate of EU law in the field of healthcare, which she defended at CEU and graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Khrystyna Penyk

November 5, 2021

Khrystyna currently works as Investment Analyst at Luge Capital, Canadian-based venture capital fund. The fund makes early stage investments in companies developing financial technologies as well as artificial intelligence applied to fintech. In her role, Khrystyna sources new investment opportunities, participates in due diligence, manages transactional matters, and provides ongoing support to Luge portfolio companies.

Meder Akeneev

October 18, 2021

Right after graduating, Meder joined Bishkek office of GRATA International, one of the leading law firms in the Central Asian and Caspian regions, where he soon found himself at the front line of financial, corporate, and commercial developments in the Kyrgyz Republic. Being part of the company’s finance and corporate teams, he participated in the realization of the two first PPP projects in the history of the Kyrgyz Republic, financing of a gold processing plant construction at the second largest gold ore field, and a number of M&A transactions across the country’s developing banking market. In addition to that, in 2019 he became a certified patent attorney of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Matea Sander

October 18, 2021

CEU made me into a global citizen and I will be forever grateful for all that it taught me. I considered myself to be open minded, tolerant and accepting before CEU, but at CEU I grew and learned even more. The exchange I had with the students there broadened my horizons and made me a better person.

Alexandra Andhov

September 22, 2021

Alexandra Andhov is an Associate Professor in Corporate Law and Law & Technology at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She had received her M.A. and B.A. from the Comenius University Law School, Slovakia, and attended Lund University in Sweden through the Erasmus program. Afterwards, she attended CEU, receiving her LL.M. in International Business Law in 2011 and S.J.D. in 2017.