Dr. Tamás Landesz is a future intelligent leader and a senior executive at one of the largest United Nations specialized agency focusing on public health. He is a pioneering leader with exceptional track record in designing, setting up, and operating complex intergovernmental missions, among others in conflict and post-conflict environments across five continents.
Advised prime ministers, governments, national institutions, intergovernmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations to overcome major diplomatic, political, military, economic, health, scientific, education, human rights, democratization, and electoral challenges.
He is equally comfortable waltzing through the ballrooms of the Hofburg in Vienna, and taking the floor in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Chamber at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, as participating in a traditional buzkashi game riding on horseback with local elders in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan.
He contributed to major historic shifts and global transformation in the past three decades while devising unique innovations in support of peaceful transition and development in hotspots such as the Balkans, Caucasus, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Horn of Africa, Latin America, Pacific Islands, and the Middle East.
Born in Budapest during the Cold War and raised by diplomatic parents in Buenos Aires during the last military junta, Dr. Landesz developed highly sophisticated adaptive, intercultural, and language skills from an early age.
He trained as an economist (BBA) and business administrator (MBA) in Vienna; international lawyer and diplomat (MALD) at Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford; public administrator (MPA) at Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge; and leadership expert (PhD) in Paris.
He has been recognized as Harvard University Mason Fellow and Vali Scholar. Dr. Landesz also served as faculty member at Corvinus University Budapest, and International School of Management in Paris.
He lectured on adaptive leadership, health diplomacy, and economic competitiveness at universities across the world, including Harvard University and Cambridge University.
A high-profile speaker, analyst, and author, Dr. Landesz’s research interests focus on the future of our world, and how to improve it, inter alia through stronger leadership, improved health, better education, and building new multidisciplinary capacities in future literacy.
He received various honors and awards, but he is most proud of having been recognized as Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. As an active member of the community, he mentors Global Shapers around the globe.
