David Koranyi is director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative and deputy director of the Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center. He has been a nonresident fellow at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Centre for Transatlantic Relations since 2010. Mr. Koranyi served as undersecretary of state and chief foreign policy and national security advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary, Gordon Bajnai in 2009-2010. He worked in the European Parliament as foreign policy advisor and head of cabinet of a Hungarian MEP (2004-2009). Previously he was a political adviser at the Hungarian National Assembly and a junior researcher at GKI Economic Research Institute, in Budapest, Hungary.

Mr Koranyi publishes and speaks on the geopolitics of energy in the wider Eurasian space (Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Caucasus) with a specific focus on Eurasian shale gas developments, EU-Russia energy relations, the Eastern Mediterranean energy conundrum and the Southern Gas Corridor. He is the editor of a book "Transatlantic Energy Futures - Strategic Perspectives on Energy Security, Climate Change and New Technologies in Europe and the United States” published in December 2011 by Johns Hopkins SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations and “A Eurasian Primer: The Transatlantic Perspective”, a study book published in November 2013 by the Atlantic Council.

Mr. Koranyi is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and the Hungarian Europe Society. He was an Aspen Institute Socrates Fellow, member of the Hungarian NATO Strategic Concept Special Advisory Group, the recipient of the German Marshall Fund's Marshall Memorial Fellowship, Marshall Memorial Fellow Selection Board Member, and beneficiary of the French Foreign Ministry's Personalities of the Future Fellowship. He studied international relations and economics, with a masters in foreign affairs from Budapest Corvinus University.