Tamás Dezső

Director General of the Migration Reseach Institute Tamás Dezső is a historian, Assyriologist, and college professor. He was admitted in 1982 to the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) as a double major in Hungarian language and literature and history. He earned his PhD in History in 1997 and completed his habilitation in 2005. He has taught as an associate professor at the Department of Assyriology and Hebrew at ELTE’s Faculty of Humanities since 2001. He also served as Vice Director of the Institute of Ancient and Classical Studies, then as Vice-Dean for Research. In 2006 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, a position he held until 2015. More recently he chaired the advisory board of Tempus Public Foundation.

He has visited Iraqi Kurdistan eight times since 2014 to conduct archaeological and monument protection research, during which he found himself on the frontline of the battle against the Islamic State half a dozen times. His additional research interest is the study of the situation of persecuted Christian communities.

His most recent work includes several analyses of the migration aspects of demographic and security developments in the Middle East.

Photo: Tamás Gyurkovits