Political scientist, social psychologist, disinformation expert. He is a senior fellow at the Washington-based CEPA think tank and a PopBack Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Earlier, he was a guest researcher at the Europe’s Futures - Ideas for Action program of the Vienna-based Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), and a non-resident Associate Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Institute of Policy Research.

Peter is an associate professor with habilitation at the Department of Social Psychology at ELTE PPK. During 2016-2017, Péter worked as a Fulbright Visiting Professor in the United States at the Central Eurasian Studies Department of Indiana University.

He has been the executive director of Political Capital since 2011. His main areas of expertise are disinformation, Russian political influence in the West, and European populism and radicalism. He was the co-chair of the EU Radicalization Prevention Network PREVENT until 2015. He is the owner of Political Capital.

He has written two books: Tömegparanoia, which has been published in two editions, introduces the social psychological foundations of fake news and conspiracy theories in a scientific and informative manner, and The Hungarian Far Right – which he wrote together with Attila Juhász – on the politics of the Hungarian far right after the democratic transition.

Having been the founder of Nézőpont Intézet, I am currently director of the Nézőpont Intézet. I am also the CEO of the CEPER Zrt, which focuses on the political system of Central Europe. Since 2006, I have regular public appearances as a political analyst.

Born in Budapest in 1980, I graduated – perhaps by now unsurprisingly – in Political Science at the Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University, in 2005, as a triple recipient of the Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary. Ten years later, the same institution awarded me the title of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) with summa cum laude honours.

Since 2006, I have been teaching a variety of political science subject at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), currently in the position of adjunct professor. My areas of interest are European domestic policies – with special regard for Germany – and electoral systems’ impact analysis.

In addition to being a regular “consumer” of politics, I gained professional expertise as a trainee with the Hungarian National Assembly (2002/2003) and the German Bundestag (2005), as well as a member of the Studienkolleg, Berlin (2005).