Biography
Lilla Bánkuty-Balogh is a Policy Leader Fellow at the Florence School of Transnational Governance. Her work explores how geopolitical competition is reshaping the global economy, with a particular focus on geoeconomics, strategic autonomy, and the international monetary and financial system. Her current research examines the role of financial infrastructure, digital money, and monetary governance in strengthening Europe's resilience and strategic autonomy.
Before joining the EUI, she spent nearly a decade as a senior economist at the Central Bank of Hungary, where she provided economic analysis and strategic policy support for senior decision-makers. She is also a lecturer in geopolitics and geoeconomics at John von Neumann University. Earlier in her career, she gained international private-sector experience across Europe and Latin America. She engages with policymakers and academic audiences on geoeconomics, economic security, and emerging technologies.
She holds a PhD in Geopolitics and Sustainable Development (summa cum laude) from Corvinus University of Budapest and a dual CEMS master's degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and Bocconi University. Her research and publications focus on geoeconomics, international political economy, technological change, and the governance of emerging technologies. She has also completed executive and postgraduate programmes at the University of Oxford, UC Berkeley, the National University of Singapore, and Fudan University. In 2022, she received the Young Researcher of Excellence Award from the European Social Fund.