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On 1 March Rajmund Fekete became the new director of the Institute for the Research of Communism.

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Rajmund Fekete was born in Hatvan in 1987. He gained a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in History and the History of International Relations from the University of Debrecen, and in 2021 he graduated summa cum laude with a PhD in History from Pázmány Péter Catholic University. He is a fellow of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin (2009) and the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C. (2018). In 2020 he received a doctoral fellowship at the Batthyány Lajos Foundation, and in 2021 he was a visiting research fellow at the Institute for American Studies at the National University of Public Service. Since 2022 he has been a research fellow at the Institute. In the same year he received a Young Researcher Fellowship from the Association of Hungarian American Academicians.

In 2010 he became a press officer at the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, and in 2012 he became a head of department. From 2013 to 2015 he was Chief Press Officer at the House of Terror Museum. In 2015 he became a policy advisor at the Prime Minister’s Office, and between 2015 and 2022 he was Head of Department and then Chief of Cabinet at the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister. From 2019 to 2022 he was Director of Communications and then adviser to the “One with Nature” World of Hunting and Nature Exhibition. From 2022 to 2023 he was Director of Communications at the Sándor Palace, Office of the President of Hungary.