Lilla Kakuk is an adviser of Dr. Gladden Pappin, the President of the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. Previously, she worked in the Ministerial Cabinet of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and later at the International Directorate of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium. She holds a law degree from the Faculty of Law at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and studied as an exchange student at the Aix-Marseille University in France. She is a member of the board of trustees of JÖSz, a foundation supporting law students and young lawyers.