Dávid Vig is the director of Amnesty International Hungary, one of
the country’s leading human rights NGOs. He is focusing on rule of
law issues, in particular the independence of the judiciary and other
independent institutions, and defending civic space. A lawyer and a
master in international relations by training, he obtained his PhD degree
in 2014. Before joining Amnesty, he worked on torture prevention,
fair trial rights and challenging the overuse of incarceration and the
erosion of the rule of law. Prior to his previous role at the Hungarian
Helsinki Committee, he worked as a researcher at the National Institute
of Criminology, the Human Rights Program of the Open Society
Foundations and the Board of Budapest Pride. At present, he is also a
part-time assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at ELTE University
Budapest, where he teaches criminology, penology and penitentiary
law.