Dr. Dunay, Pal Interim Director p.dunay@osce-academy.net +996 312 543200 (ext. 103)

Dr. Pal Dunay is Interim Director of the OSCE Academy since 1 July 2024. He has been assigned to this post as he was director of the OSCE Academy between 1 May 2014 and 30 June 2015 and again between January and September 2016. Dr. Dunay, a lawyer by training, worked in various positions in the last 42 years, during most of the time in post-graduate education and training. He was teaching public international law at his alma mater, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest between 1982 and 1996, was course director at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (1996-2004, 2007-2014), and was Professor of NATO and European Security Issues at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. He was senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) between 2004-2007.

His practical and management experience includes the role of legal advisor of the Hungarian Delegation to the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) talks, and the negotiations of the Treaty on Open Skies (1989-1992), head of the Security Policy Department of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1991), Deputy Director of the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs (1994-1996), and Director of the same institution (2007).

He published approximately 400 scholarly articles, including a few edited, and co-authored monographs. The list can be consulted at www.mtmt.hu