Harper 2015

CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff was interviewed for Hungarian weekly HVG's popular "Portre" (portrait) column. Below please find CEU's translation of the article. While the full text of the original is only available to subscribers to the magazine, you can read an excerpt here:  http://hvg.hu/itthon/20160915_michael_ignatieff_ceu_kozep_europai_egyetem_rektor_magyar_feleseg

“The most important thing to know about me is that my wife is Hungarian,” the 69-year-old Canadian history professor and former politician appointed CEU Rector September 1, discloses about himself. Born in Toronto, his father was a Canadian diplomat of noble Russian origin, and his grandfather was Minister of Education during the reign of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II. “I look like an American, I talk like it, but I’m proud to be Canadian,” he says. He received his history degree in Toronto and then his PhD at Harvard. He has taught in Toronto and at Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge. He is considered an in Zsohar zsuzsanna wikipedia english!