Mariann Dosa

Hungary

DPhil Social Policy, 2015
St Hilda's College
Funding: Roland Berger

Mariann graduated with an MA in International Relations and Economics (2007) from the Corvinus University of Budapest and subsequently completed a post-graduate course in Gender Studies (2009) at the US Central European University in Hungary.

Following this, Mariann served as a Junior Researcher at the Central European University, where she drew on her extensive practitioner knowledge of the plight of minority domestic Roma communities. She acted as a mentor for the Roma Settlement Elimination Programme of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour, where she evaluated the conditions of four Roma settlements in Northern Hungary.

Since 2009, Mariann has been an active member of ‘The City is for All’, a grassroots community organisation which campaigns for social justice, particularly for the homeless.

In 2014 she co-founded the School of Public Life in Hungary, which aims to improve the country’s democratic culture through education and training for people who have been socially excluded. The School help citizens dedicated to building a democratic and just Hungary, especially members of marginalised communities and those working on their behalf to organise themselves and stand up for their rights effectively.

Currently, Mariann is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Ministry of Justice in the UK. She is based in London.