Szende Elias is Finance and Operations Assistant at REEEP, providing support to REEEP operations with various administrative and accountancy tasks.

Before joining REEEP, Szende worked with international consultancies and interned at the OSCE and the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has extensive experience in project support and procurement.

Szende holds an MA in International Relations and Economics from the Corvinus University of Budapest, and an Advanced MA in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies from the International University of Vienna.

She is married and has a young daughter.