Lillian Zsófia Aronson is the Research Assistant to the president’s team at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. She previously completed the Institute’s Future Leaders Program. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in International Politics and a Master of International Affairs with specializations in Middle Eastern Security Studies and International Business and Economics at the Pennsylvania State University.

Besides Hungary, Lillian has lived and researched in the United States, Switzerland, Israel, the West Bank, Morocco, Jordan, and Qatar. Her wide-ranging interests include international development, strategies of rising powers, conflict resolution, migration, and the politics of the MENA region.