Unhack was founded after the April 2018 Hungarian parliamentary elections and is a registered non-profit in Belgium.
dr. Garvan
Walshe
Co-Founder
Garvan is an Irish political strategist. He runs TRD Policy (formerly Brexit Analytics). He was previously National and International Security Policy Adviser for the UK Conservative party and a strategist for the Conservatives’ Remain campaign. He writes regularly for CNN, Foreign Policy and the Conservativehome.
dr. Melani Barlai
Co-Founder
Zsófia Banuta
Co-Founder
Melani is co-founder and coordinator of the Hungarian online voting advice tool “Vokskabin” which helps voters to decide how to vote in local, parliamentary and European elections. She currently works at netPOL (Network Political Communication), an international academic political communications network. Her research topics are: Hungarian Politics, Voting Advice Applications, Right-wing extremism in Hungary
Zsófa is a socially conscious entrepreneur, who started her career as an international news producer, covering business and economy stories across Europe with a focus on the new EU countries. She is an activist in the UK and Hungary.
Elliott Goat
Co-Founder
Ádám Sanyó
Dorottya Víg
Activists
Elliott is a British-based journalist focusing on human rights, politics and digital democracy. He is a winner of the Wyn Harness Journalist Award, contributor to the International State Crime Initiative and current Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow.
Activist and data scientist who has been working on election forecasts since 2015. Ádám founded https://taktikaiszavazas.hu/ in 2018 ahead of the parliamentary elections to advise voters which opposition candidates have the biggest chance of winning in each constituency. He is preparing with a similar forecast for the municipal elections.
Dóri is a master’s student in international relations at the German language Andrássy University Budapest. She is writing her master thesis on the impact of the Hungarian voting advice application, Vokskabin.
Dedicated activists including developers, designers, mathematicians and researchers, who believe in free and fair elections.