Hedvig Morvai is Executive Director for the impact division Europe and Democracy at the ERSTE Foundation in Vienna. She participated in establishing the European Fund for Balkans where she was the executive director for more than a decade. Prior to this she served as director of the Citizens' Pact for South Eastern Europe and office coordinator of Partnership for Democratic Changes. Hedvig is author and initiator of a number of outreach and advocacy initiatives focused on dialogue and exchange. She developed her multi-disciplinary approach to leadership in regional co-operation and European integration in civic activism, philanthropy and regional politics. She created and ran capacity building initiatives and training programmes focused on good governance, community development, citizen participation and public policies. Currently Hedvig is Council member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and president of the International Board of Patrons of the Center for Advanced Studies in Rijeka. In 2006 she was laureate of the Maja Marsicevic -Tasic Foundation's 'Conquering Freedom Award', and in 2015 with her team at the European Fund for the Balkans, she got the Regional Cooperation Council's 'Champion of Regional Cooperation'award.