Éva Vajda is a former Hungarian award-winning investigative journalist with nearly two decades of experience covering corruption, wrongdoing, and abuse of power, including the enrichment of Prime Minister Orbán's family.
She is currently based in London and works as a mentor, trainer, and researcher for the Thomson Foundation, the Media and Journalism Research Centre (MJRC), the Science+ project (FPU, FPEE) and TruthAfrica project (Code for Africa and Polish Pravda fact-checking site), focusing on media development, investigative journalism, and disinformation.
Previously, Éva worked as a regional researcher at Amnesty International in London, and has taught journalism for more than a decade at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and has led journalism training across Central Europe, the Western Balkans, and the former Soviet Union.
She studied economics and law in Budapest, holds an MA in Political Science from CEU, studied journalism in the US and at the BBC, and holds a CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) qualification.
