Dániel Cséfalvay heads PRINCEPS Advisory's team of in-house and external analysts throughout the CEE region. Before joining PRINCEPS, Dániel interned at Oxford Analytica in New York, Horizon Intelligence, and London Politica where he worked on political risk reports, security forecasts and briefings, and in-depth intelligence analyses. 

Dániel graduated from the Central European University with an MA in International Relations, focusing on conflicts and security. He also holds a BA in Political Science from the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts. During his studies, he spent time abroad in the Netherlands, South Carolina, and New York. Dániel is particularly interested in Middle Eastern politics, especially in the Gulf region. Thanks to his studies in Vienna and Bratislava, he also harbours an interest in Central-Eastern European politics.

James is a Research Analyst at PRINCEPS Advisory. He has almost a decade’s worth of private consulting experience in Japan and the USA, as well as research experience in Singapore and Nepal.

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In May of 2022, James graduated with a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, where he earned concentrations in both economics and security policy. There, he focused on subjects including combined arms, weapons technology, military-civil relations, and intelligence. During this time, he also led a team to the semi-finals in the Atlantic Council’s international cybersecurity wargame, Cyber 9/12.  James has published writing on intelligence, military coups, and maritime security. He currently contributes briefings to the Japan Society’s Business and Policy Forum and is working on a book in contract with Trident Media Group.

Lenka Kocáková is an Intern at PRINCEPS Advisory.

She graduated from Charles University with a master's degree in Security Studies. In her diploma thesis, she focused on Turkish drones and their deployment in the MENA region. Lenka also holds a bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Cultures from the University of Economics in Bratislava, where she studied English and French. Lenka is primarily interested in insurgencies and conflicts in the MENA region.

Isabela is the Marketing/PR Specialist at Princeps Advisory.

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Isabela holds a Bachelor's degree in History and Politics from the University of Warwick. During her studies, she mainly focused on the field of International Relations, especially in the context of digital technology. Her dissertation focused on how private technology companies tackle their involvement in international conflicts and politics, using data privacy breaches and cyberattacks as case studies. She further explored this issue in her article “Russia and the New Face of Warfare” written for the Slovak weekly Tyždeň. Following her studies, Isabela interned on the foreign policy advisory team for the Czech Speaker of the House of Representatives Markéta Pekarová Adamová.

Emma is an Intelligence Specialist at PRINCEPS and is responsible for curating the company blog. She  holds a degree in Area Studies from the Charles University Institute of International Studies with a specialisation in American Studies. During her studies she published several opinion pieces on the Institute’s blog. One year of her degree was spent abroad at the University of St Andrews in Scotland studying International Relations where she was placed on the Dean’s List for academic excellence.  

Before joining PRINCEPS Advisory, Emma successfully completed an internship with Transparency International Czech Republic, working on the open source database “Our Politicians” and the Czech Defence Companies Anti-Corruption Index as both a researcher and translator. In 2020 Emma was invited to take advantage of a scholarship and attended the Transparency International School on Integrity.

Adela is an Energy Industry Analyst collaborating with PRINCEPS on energy market analysis by contributing to reports on several European countries for the Economist Intelligence Unit. Before becoming a freelance macroeconomist, Adela spent 4 years as part of the Economic Research team at Moody’s Analytics, where she worked on a wide range of regional and macro economies around the world, focusing on forecasting, market analysis, macroeconomic indicators and policy implications, and helped develop first in-house climate change scenarios.

Adela holds a Master’s degree in International Development and a Bachelor's degree in International Affairs from Babes-Bolyai University in Romania. She has maintained an international focus throughout her work, be it in foreign real estate markets, overseas employee relocations or global economics, and a varied experience in the area of international collaboration through internships, volunteering and NGO work including planning, organising and funding local, national and international cultural events with a multicultural focus, participating in youth work and in EU-funded exchanges.

Petr Kříž is an OSINT Analyst at PRINCEPS Advisory.

Petr is a cybersecurity and open-source research specialist. He is an expert on extensive IT system administration and security, and the holder of accreditations, including the ESET certificate. Petr is also an ECDL-accredited lecturer in informatics and cybersecurity. In PRINCEPS, Petr employs his experience with data collection and mining a wide range of OSINT sources. He employs high-end OSINT tools, as well as his own programmes for the gathering and analysis of open-source data.  

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