Advisory Board

Robert Manchin is president of Culture Action Europe. Born in Budapest, where he attended the Bartok Conservatory of Music, the Liszt Academy of Music and the Karl Marx University of Economics. Worked at the Hungarian Academy of Science as a sociologist while playing in the State Philharmonic Orchestra. He wrote books on sociology or art, youth musical protest movements and the long-term effects of music education in public schools. Spent several years teaching social science research methods and doing research in various American universities. Returning to Hungary before the regime change he organized samizdat publications including publishing the minutes of proceedings of the transition parliament before the first free elections, and facsimile editions of the press of the 1956 Revolution. Between 1990 and 2014 he fulfilled various top management positions at Gallup Organization in the US and in Europe leading a number of global research projects, including the Eurobarometer surveys and the Wellbeing WorldPoll. . As a professor at the College of Europe, developed a course to understand European social trends using survey and other data.