Gyöngyi Horváth (Conference and Workshop Organiser)
Gyöngyi Horváth joined TERENA in November 2007.
She was born in Hungary in 1978. She graduated from the University of Miskolc in 2002, with a Masters Degree in Sociology.
Gyöngyi then worked in various international environments. First she spent four months in London as an au-pair, to improve her English language skills. Then she returned to Hungary where she joined the corporate sector, as a team assistant with Xerox.
In 2004 she moved to the non-profit sector, working for the European Youth Card Association (EYCA) as an Executive Assistant and Project Manager. At EYCA she organised international conferences in different European locations, managed a Europe-wide focus group research project called EYCAdemy, and also coordinated the production of cards.
Gyöngyi joined the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in 2005, as the Assistant to Head of Regional Delegation in Budapest. Her main responsibilities were to organise international conferences and meetings and to coordinate the production of the IFRC's magazine, ‘Bridge’. She also helped develop the Regional Delegation's intranet webpages.
In 2006 she was deployed to the IFRC Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, where her main responsibility was to support organisation of the European Regional Conference, manage the Europe-wide intranet webpages, and to develop conference online registrations and sites as well as continuing to coordinate ‘Bridge’ magazine production.
Gyöngyi is looking forward to experiencing the TERENA Networking Conferences, and the high-level technologies that are used in their organisation and realisation.
In her spare time Gyöngyi plays the clarinet, and likes to draw, paint and read. In addition to Hungarian and English, she speaks German and a little French. Dutch is now one of her objectives. When she still has some energy left, she also jogs, plays tennis and skis (which will obviously not be possible in Amsterdam).