Program: Széll Kálmán Public Policy Fellowship
Year: 2026 Summer
Host Institution: American Legislative Exchange Council
Research Focus: Foreign Policy
Quote: “My philosophy is lifelong learning: absorbing something new every day, developing my own ideas and perspectives about the world, with the goal of becoming an active shaper of the future.”
Read her introduction here: hungaryfoundation.org
Csenge Orsolya Balogh is completing her second year in International Business and Economics at Corvinus University of Budapest while also being a student at Rajk College for Advanced Studies. Her intellectual interests lie at the intersection of economics, public policy, and health.
Driven by this belief, she first explored this professionally by supporting VitrofluidiX, a health- tech startup, with market research through the Creative Destruction Lab program organized by ESMT Berlin. Wanting to bring this passion closer to her own community, she participated in the Design Terminal startup competition with a social startup idea aimed at building stronger student communities through sport, addressing the need for belonging and connection among Hungarian college students. Alongside this, she served as project leader of MOVE at MCC, coordinating a team of fifty students and organizing sports events and community programs.
The American Legislative Exchange Council is America’s largest nonpartisan, voluntary membership organization of state legislators dedicated to the principles of limited government, free markets and federalism. Comprised of nearly one-quarter of the country’s state legislators and stakeholders from across the policy spectrum, ALEC members represent more than 60 million Americans and provide jobs to more than 30 million people in the United States.