Mónika Mercz JD is a junior researcher at the Public Law Center of Mathias Corvinus Collegium Foundation. She is completing her PhD studies in Law and Political Sciences at the Doctoral School of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, where her research topic examines how constitutional identity manifests in essential state functions of the Member States of the European Union. A graduate of the University of Miskolc with a degree in law, she specialized as an English legal translator, and is currently completing her AI and Law course at the University of Lisbon. Mónika has over fifty scientific publications, and has attended numerous international conferences. She has previously worked for The National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, The Office of the National Assembly and the Miskolc Regional Court. Mónika is currently an editor of Külügyi Műhely Gyorselemzés sorozat (Foreign Affairs Rapid Analysis Series) and a mentor at Károli Gáspár University’s Bocskai István College of Excellence in Legal and Social Sciences. She was previously the Secretary General of ELSA Miskolc (2020-2022), and is currently a member of Aurum Foundation, Central European Lawyers Initiative and Youth Atlantic Treaty Association Hungary.

She is a founding editor of Constitutional Discourse, leading the Privacy & Data Protection column.