Gabor Petri

Gabor Petri is Post-doctoral Researcher at the CEU Democracy Institute. He received his PhD at the University of Kent, Tizard Centre in 2019, where his research explored the position of self-advocates in the learning disability and autism advocacy movement.  

Gabor has 25 years of experience in the disability field. He has held various positions at disability rights organisations both in Hungary and in the EU and worked at public administration bodies as well. He was member of the Board of Directors of the European Disability Forum from 2013 to 2022, representing Mental Health Europe. In 2022, he was OSUN fellow: his research explored the position of the disabled people's movement in public policy-making. 

Gabor’s research interests include post-socialist disability policies, the disabled people’s movement, disability human rights, mental health policies, the use of EU Structural Funds, and community-based services.