GÉZA JESZENSZKY (Budapest, 1941). Historian, D. Phil. (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest). Banned from higher education in 1959, acquired a degree in history and English in 1966. Was schoolteacher, then librarian, from 1976 to 2011 taught modern history at what is today Corvinus University of Budapest. Was Fulbright Visiting Professor at UC Santa Barbara in 1984–86. One of the founders of the Hungarian Democartic Forum, was Foreign Minister in the first non-Communist government (1990–94), Ambassador to the United States of America in 1998–2002, and to Norway and Iceland in 2011–14.
He is the author of a large number of scholarly publications and political writings, including Lost Prestige. The Changing Image of Hungary in Britain, 1894–1918 (Budapest, 1986, 1994, 2020 in Hungarian), in English: Reno, NV: Helena History Press LLC, 2020); Post- Communist Europe and Its National/Ethnic Problems (Budapest, 2005, 2009), July 1944. Deportation of the Jews of Budapest Foiled. (Ed.) (Reno, NV: Helena History Press LLC, 2018.) His book on Hungary’s relations to its neighbours in the years of the regime  change (Kísérlet a trianoni trauma orvoslására. Magyarország szomszédsági politikája a rendszerváltozás éveiben) came out in 2016. He is co-author of a book on the history  of skiing in the Carpathian Basin (2016).