The Mathias Corvinus Collegium's scientific and educational programs include lectures by several internationally renowned foreign and Transylvanian academics and researchers. International visibility, building diplomatic relations and cooperation is a fundamental requirement for a 21st century science and education institution. At MCC, we strive to ensure that our students and the wider public in Transylvanian cities have access to the best professionals in our educational programs, training courses and public lectures.
Guest speakers in 2026:
Jaume de Marcos
Vice-President of the United Religions Initiative (URI) in Europe
Rev. István Kovács
bishop of the Hungarian Unitarian Church
Dr. Gintarė Stankevičiūtė
musicologist and researcher affiliated with the University of Southampton
Dr. Adrian Pop
composer, professor of composition at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy
Dr. Emese Sófalvi
musicologist, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Reformed Theology and Music of Babeș–Bolyai University
Yacov Hadas Handelsman
former ambassador
Dr. Catherine Horel
Research Director at C.N.R.S., CETOBAC, Paris
Dr. Attila Kálmán
historian and high school teacher at the Bolyai Farkas Theoretical High School
Dr. Nicholas Tate
historian
Dr. Marco V. Crivellaro
Visiting Fellow at MCC, Director of Library Services at the American Community Schools of Athens
Zoltán Hajdú
director of the Bolyai Farkas High School in Marosvásárhely/Târgu Mureș
Robert Gyarmati
debate trainer at MCC
Simona Baciu
President and founder of the InIm Institute
Attila Balázs-Bécsi
Founder and Director of the Téka Cultural Foundation
Orsolya Jáger-Lőrincz
Investment Director for Construction at MCC
Dr. Bernd Mertens
Director of the Institute for Legal History
Dr. Giovanni Chiodi
Full Professor of Legal History, Department of Law, University of Milano-Bicocca
Dr. Axel Bormann
lawyer
Gualtiero Spotti
gastro tourism expert
Count Tibor Kálnoky
owner of Kálnoky’s Guesthouses
Miklós Kálnoky
hospitality professional
Gyöngyvér Deák
Executive Director of Visit Covasna
Vlad Sulea
visual designer
Dr. Lehel Csató
professor at the Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty of Babeș-Bolyai University
Dr Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode
Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy in the Humanities Research Institute
Dr. Oana Raita
Senior Researcher at INCDTIM
Dr. Strahinja Obrenović
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade
Guest speakers in 2025:
Graham Bell
director of the UK-based NGO Cultura Trust and the Hungarian Renaissance Foundation
Dr Radu Albu-Comănescu
lecturer at the Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University
John O’Sullivan
President and founder of the Danube Institute
Dr Avraham Weber
lawyer
Dr Nick Zangwill
Honorary Research Fellow at University College London
Dr. Dan Breznitz
University Professor at the University of Toronto
Dr. László Seer
lecturer at Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Dr Ilya Shapiro
a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute
Dr János Székely
assistant professor at Sapientia University
Norman Lewis
writer, speaker and consultant on innovation and technology
Maria-Ruxandra Bodea
attorney, Teaching Assistant at the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Law
Mariam Hamdy
independent filmmaker, lecturer, film programmer, and festival organizer
Dr Francesco Palermo
professor for comparative constitutional law in the University of Verona
Dr Radu Chiriță
lawyer and associate professor at the Faculty of Law of Babeș-Bolyai University
Dr Teresa Nogueira Pinto
Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Lusófona University
Dr Anthony O'Hear
Professor of Philosophy at The University of Buckingham
Charles Yockey
policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute’s Centers for Legal Affairs and Constitutional Studies
Zsuzsa Szebeni
cultural diplomat and head of the Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center in Sepsiszentgyörgy/Sfântu Gheorghe
Dr Leonardo Gabriel Orlando Faus
researcher
Peter Harrap
a British-Romanian artist and curator
Dr. Luigi Lacchè
full professor in Legal History at the University of Macerata
Dr. Giacomo Pace Gravina
professor of legal history at the Department of Law, University of Messina
Dr. Mario Riberi
associate professor, Department of Law, University of Turin
Dr. Tamás Nótári
university professor at Sapientia University
Dr. Attila Menyhárd
university professor of civil law, Head of the Center for Modern Law Studies at MCC
Dr. Csaba Moldicz
head of the School of International Relations at MCC
Dr. Andreea Brînză
co-founder and researcher at the Romanian Institute for the Study of the Asia-Pacific (RISAP)
Dr. Peter Turchin
complexity scientist
Gerhard Winters
hydrogeologist
Antal Serfőző
hydrogeologist
Dr. Péter Szűcs
hydrogeologist
Paul J. Larkin
Senior Legal Research Fellow at the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation
Dr Diego Muro
Senior Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St. Andrews
Dr István Horváth
sociologist and professor of the Hungarian Sociology and Social Work Institute at Babeş-Bolyai University
Guest speakers in 2024:
dr. Graham Barnfield
author and senior lecturer in journalism
dr. Ashley Frawley
sociologist and Visiting Research Fellow at MCC Brussels
dr. Michael Bonner
historian and government-relations consultant, author
dr. Philippe Van Parijs
Political Philosopher, Professor of Economic, Social and Political Sciences
Taylor Kay
Operations Director of Seasonal Exchanges at the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), the worldwide leader in exchange programs
dr. Farhad Dalal
psychotherapist and group analyst
Dr. Emmanuel Maggiori
computer scientist, author
Dr. Geoffrey West
theoretical physicist, Santa Fe Institute
Agnieszka Kolek
Artist, Curator Head of Cultural Engagement in Brussels
dr. Patrick Shoaf Gray
Professor of Literature and Dean of the Center for Arts and Letters at the University of Austin (UATX)
dr. Adrian Papahagi
Professor of English Literature at Babeș–Bolyai University, and director of the Centre for the History of the Book and Texts (CODEX)
dr. Máté Botos
Historian, Professor at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Director of MCC Press
dr. Dina Zielinski
computational biologist
Csilla Beke-Szabó
Country Director at Student Travel Romania
Yann Caspar
lawyer, journalist, author, and researcher at the MCC Centre for European Studies
Dr. Ralph Schoellhammer
assistant professor in economics and political science at Webster University, Vienna
Dr. Andrei Țăranu
political scientist, researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Studies, University of Bucharest
dr. Máthé Réka Zsuzsánna
senior researcher at MCC, research fellow at National University of Public Service, Assistant Professor at Sapientia University
Lorenzo Bernasconi
research fellow at the Machiavelli Center for Political and Strategic Studies
Dr. Toma Burean
political scientist, lecturer at Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Political, Administrative, and Communication Sciences
Dr. Béla-Gergely Rácz
economist, assistant professor at Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Márk Vargha
senior analyst at MCC Migration Research Institute
dr. Jean Yarbrough
Professor of Government and Gary M. Pendy, Sr. Professor of Social Sciences. She is the author of numerous articles and essays in American politic
David Timiș
Global Communications & Public Affairs Manager at Generation, Global Shaper at WEF, AI & Future of Work Speaker, Career Coach
Dr. Andrew Taylor
Managing Director of Transylvania Executive Education (TEE)
Dr. Nóra Dobre
Senior HR and Communications Expert
Ioana Corujan
International Affairs Specialist at Transilvania IT Association
Ana-Maria Stancu
Founder of RoboHub, CEO of Bucharest Robots
Prof. Dr. Thomas Bewick
Visiting Professor of Skills and Workforce Policy at Staffordshire University
Prof. Dr. Zoltán Cséfalvay
Head of the Center for Next Technological Futures at MCC
Prof. Dr. Gábor Halász
Senior Researcher at the Learning Institute at MCC
Katalin Orosz
Business Consultant, Organizational Management, Growth Programmes and Process Improvement Specialist
Prof. Dr. Anca Simionca
Dean of the Sociology Department at Babeș-Bolyai University
Zsolt Sallai
Finance, Risk and Regulatory Reporting, Wolters Kluwer
S-P O’Mahony
Honorary Consul of Ireland, Cluj-Napoca
Prof. Dr Simon Cottee
an honorary senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Kent, a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a contributing editor at Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
Andrei Zincă
director
Prof. Dr Giacomo Pace Gravina
Professor of Legal History at the Department of Law, University of Messina
Bogdan Bob Rădulescu
actor, entrepreneur
Cristian-Andrei Ciornea
lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Babeș-Bolyai University
Geanina Simion
creative director, brand strategist, president of the "Niște Oameni" Association
Dr. Ioan Hosu
sociologist and Director of the Department of Communication, Public Relations and Advertising, Babeș-Bolyai University
Dr. Liviu-Marius Harosa
lawyer, lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Babeș-Bolyai University
Dr. Raluca Moldovan
Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations and German Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University
Sorin Dan Clinci
Architect, president of the Urbannect Association
Dr. Sergiu Mișcoiu
Historian and Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University
Tică Darie
activist, founder of Made is Roșia Montană
Dr. Virgil Adumitroaie
Data Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Guest speakers in 2023:
Dr. Alexander Jürgen Grau
freelance author, publicist, science and culture journalist, visiting fellow at MCC
Andrew Greenwood
professional dancer and an international ballet master
Axel Voss
Member of the European Parliament
Dr. Benoit Mayer
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dr. Calum T. M. Nicholson
British-Canadian anthropologist, visiting fellow at MCC and Danube Institute
Dr. Csala Dénes
data scientist, assistant professor at Lancaster University
Dr. Eric Hendriks
Dutch sociologist, visiting fellow at Danube Institute
Dr. Gáspár-Szilágyi Szilárd
Assistant Professor in EU and International Economic Law at Birmingham University
Dr. Gladden Pappin
political scientist, visiting senior fellow at MCC, on leave from the University of Dallas, where he is an associate professor of politics, Director of the Hungarian Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade
Dr. Heinz Theisen
Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of North Rhine-Westphalia, visiting lecturer at MCC
Dr. Henri de Montety
French historian, lecturer at the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies, Vendée, France
Dr. Jan Bentz
Lecturer and Tutor Blackfriars Studioum, Oxford
Dr. K. Lengyel Zsolt
historian, political scientist, head of the Hungarian Institute at the University of Regensburg
Karen de Sousa Pesse
digital advisor, diversity and gender equality activist
Revd. Prof. Nigel Biggar
Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford
Dr. Patrick Deneen
Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, USA
Dr. Paul Videsott
Dean of the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen (UNIBZ) and editor-in-chief of the European Journal on Minority Issues
Dr. Robert C. Castel
expert on security policy based in Israel
Julius Strauss
journalist, former war correspondent, visiting fellow at MCC
Michael Kurzwelly
German conceptual artist, researching and working in the field of social innovation and community development
Richard Janos Schenk
PhD candidate at the Department of Policy Analysis, TUM School of Governance
Dr. Sebastian Morello
philosopher, writer, lecturer and public speaker
Shaun Riordan
Director of the Chair for Diplomacy and Cyberspace at the European Institute of International Studies and a senior Research Fellow at the Charter Institute (Beijing), former British diplomat
Todd Bensman
investigative author, two-time National Press Club award winner, former war correspondent
Dr. Torbjørn Netland
Full Professor and Head of Chair of Production and Operations Management at ETH (Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich, Switzerland
Dr.William Ruger
President of the American Institute for Economic Research
Zoe Strimpel
writer, broadcaster and historian of gender in modern Britain
Dr. Alexandru Stermin
Biologist, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University
Dr. Gheroghe Chiriță
philosopher, Executive Director of the Romanian Association for Audiovisual Communication
Guest speakers in 2022:
Andrea Keerbs
Director of the International Republican Institute
Charles Crawford
former British diplomat
Ed West
British journalist
Dr. Hubertus Ruël
Dutch theologian, economist, researcher on international trade and diplomacy
Kálnoky Boris
journalist, head of the MCC Media School
Dr. Mark Milosch
historian, lawyer and international relations expert; former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
Dr. Patrick Shoaf Gray
Associate Professor of English Studies and Director of Liberal Arts at Durham University
Dr. Peter Gregory Boghossian
American philosopher with an academic focus on atheism, critical thinking, pedagogy, scientific skepticism and the Socratic method
Dr. Peter Kurti
Director of the Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program, adjunct associate professor in the School of Law, University of Notre Dame Australia
Dr. Sohrab Ahmari
Iranian American journalist and founding editor of Compact online magazine
Stephen Travis Sholl
foreign policy expert on transatlantic relations
