Selected Alumni Profiles

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.

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.