Krisztina Than is Chief Correspondent in in Hungary and deputy bureau chief for CEE. She became head of the Budapest bureau in 2008 at a time when Hungary was battered by a deep financial crisis. She has covered the 2015 migration crisis, major economic and political developments in Hungary and the CEE region, currency crises and central bank policy. Besides spot news, she also writes deeply reported stand back stories and analyses, as well as multimedia stories. She holds an Masters degree in English and Russian literature from Budapest’s Eotvos University, and a BA degree in economics. She studied in Moscow, the United States and Scotland on various scholarships in the 1990s.
