MESPOM Alumni and Career Prospects

Five MESPOM classes have graduated by now. Many graduates have found jobs in Europe or their home countries. The organizations that employ MESPOM graduates include private companies, academia and think tanks, the United Nations and other international organizations and the NGO sector. Several alumni have enrolled in PhD programes.

You can read about careers of MESPOM graduates at our website's alumni career section. You can also contact our alumni: for more information, please join the Study at MESPOM group.

Career services and alumni networks

MESPOM has a dynamic alumni network which is a great resource for careers and internships. In addition, MESPOM students and alumni are members of the Erasmus Mundus Association and belong to alumni organizations of Lund, Manchester and CEU.

MESPOM students also benefit from career services of the partner institutions, of which The University of Manchester Careers Service was voted by recruiters best in the UK for five consecutive years from 2002 to 2007.

Graduate Teaching Assistant & PhD Candidate at Kansas University

I am Saatvika Rai, from India, from MESPOM class 2005-07. Currently I am a PhD candidate at the Political Science Department, University of Kansas (USA). I am also a graduate teaching assistant and teach international relations to undergraduate students. My areas of specialization are Public Policy and Comparative Politics, with a minor in Research Methods. My research interests are climate change adaptation and I am keen to explore climate refugees or migration, especially in Africa.

MESPOM alumni publication in Biodiversity Conservation Journal

We (Anastasiya Idrisova and Alvin Chandra, Batch 4 2008-2010) are pleased to share our recent publication, “Convention on Biological Diversity: a review of national challenges and opportunities for implementation” in the Biodiversity Conservation Journal.

Publication of MESPOM Alumni Njisuh Feka

Njisuh Feka from Batch 3 (2007-2009) is currently volunteering as project development officer for the United Kingdom base charity African Conservation for Development Foundation (ACDEF). In this position, he is principally responsible for identifying and proposing suitable project ideas in the nexus of biodiversity conservation and development in West-Central Africa and participating in the development of fund-raising proposals.

Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute

I am in Oxford, working as a research fellow at the Stockholm Enviromental Insitute on climate change adaptation. I focus mainly on ecosystem-based adaptation and processes of robust decision making and adaptive governance. I work in the context of developing countries, particularly in Africa and Asia (so lots of traveling to interesting places.

Greenpeace Hungary Programme Director

After returning to Hungary, to my home country, for the birth of my son, I continued to work for Greenpeace.

From January to June 2011, I was coordinating Greenpeace's activities during the Hungarian EU Presidency.This meant lots of lobby and expert work, and gathering and filtering loads of information.