At just 24, Charles Yockey has already mapped an extraordinary professional journey—policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute, M.Phil. graduate in Political Thought from Cambridge, Hoover Institution Director’s Award winner, and now an incoming Schwarzman Scholar bound for Tsinghua University in Beijing. Before leaving Europe for Asia, he will reflect on the year he spent in Budapest and how that experience deepened his understanding of Hungarian society, its place in Europe, and its perspective on the wider world.  

Drawing on his passions for political economy, diplomatic history, and financial markets, he’ll share the lessons he’s carrying with him to China—and why young people everywhere should be encouraged to seek out cross-cultural experiences that broaden their understanding and enrich their perspectives. 

Charles Yockey is a policy analyst within the Manhattan Institute’s Centers for Legal Affairs and Constitutional Studies. In Budapest, he is a visiting researcher within Mathias Corvinus Collegium’s Center for International Law. In the past, he has worked in both the public and private sectors and he intends to attend law school in the United States. He aspires to promote greater transatlantic understanding by facilitating collaboration between the public and private sectors as a diplomat, financier, or policymaker. 

His partner in discussion will be Zsuzsa Szebeni, cultural diplomat and head of the Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center in Sepsiszentgyörgy/Sfântu Gheorghe. For nearly twenty years, she served as the cross-border affairs officer at the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute. During this time, she participated in the research and curation of more than 15 traveling exhibitions. She has published numerous articles and books on theatre history, and in 2015, she was awarded the Miklós Bánffy Prize by the Hungarian Cultural Association of Transylvania in recognition of her work. 

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