Rodrigo Ballester
Ministerial Commissioner for the Internationalization of Higher Education and Research
Are you sure you have complete freedom over your own opinions? Rodrigo Ballester has fought throughout his entire career to ensure that your convictions are entirely your own. The former EU official, who has appeared in Le Figaro, Atlantico, El American, Newsweek, Mandiner, and Index, as well as on radio and TV shows, also taught at Sciences-Po University in Paris. Today, he leads the MCC's European Studies Center and, since 2024, has been the Ministerial Commissioner for the Internationalization of Higher Education and Research in Hungary.
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