Balázs Jarábik is a political analyst and former diplomat with a focus on Ukraine and the broader Eastern European region. He is the founder of Minority Report, a political risk consultancy covering Central and Eastern Europe, and a partner at R.Politik.From 2019 to 2023, he served as Head of Policy, Analysis, and Coordination at the European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM) in Ukraine.Between 2017 and 2018, he advised the Ukrainian government on EU integration. He has also managed large scale international development projects in Eastern Europe.MrJarábik has contributed to several policy research institutions, including FRIDE (2006–12), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2014–19), and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), where he was a Europe’s Future Fellow (2022–23). His work focuses on political processes, state institutions, and regional dynamics in post-Soviet Europe.