Research field

Middle East, Northern Africa, security policy, emerging security challenges

Hanga Horváth-Sántha graduated from Stockholm University Law School in 2009 and completed her Master’s degree in Public International Law in Fribourg, Switzerland. She later studied security policy at the Swedish Defence College. Since 2010, she has been working at the Ministry of Justice in Sweden, where her main focus was the prevention of violent extremism. Between 2011-2012 she worked at the Crisis Management Coordination Secretariat under the Swedish Prime Minister’s Office. In 2014 she worked at the Swedish National Police Board. She moved to Hungary in 2015 and joined the Migration Research Institute as a senior researcher, focusing on the security policy aspects of irregular migration.

In 2016, she started her PhD studies at the Faculty of Military Sciences and Officer Training at the National University of Public Service, the topic of the dissertation is Salafi-Jihadist radicalisation. Between 2018-2020 she lived in Viet Nam, and since September 2022 she has been assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, and a researcher at the Geopolitical Centre of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium. From May 2023 she is a research fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. Her research areas include security policy and the MENA region.