Transparency International
Europe & Central Asia Regional Director

Miklos Marschall (1953) is the Europe & Central Asia Regional Director of Transparency International, a global NGO fighting against corruption.  Besides the operation of TI in Europe and Central Asia where TI has around 40 national chapters and partners, he is also responsible for the biannual International Anti-corruption Conference (IACC). Between 1994 and 1998, he was the founding CEO of CIVICUS: a global network of NGOs and foundations to promote civil society. In 1991- 1994, he served as deputy mayor of Budapest, Hungary.  Mr.Marschall serves on the boards of several international and Hungarian NGOs. He is the chair of the Hungarian Nonprofit Information and Training Center (NIOK) and an Advisory Council member of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL). Recently, he was elected to the board of GuideStar International. Mr. Marschall has a strong interest in the arts as well: He is the chair of the Board of the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Mr.Marschall graduated from the Karl Marx University of Economics in Budapest in 1979, he received his doctorate from the same university in 1984. In 1988/89, he was a Fulbright fellow at Yale studying the US nonprofit sector.