Bio

Tibor joined the School of Social Work in 2020, after spending ten years at University Libraries directing their IT department in the overhaul of the Rutgers Community Repository, the replacement of the Library Management System, and several rounds of website redesigns.

Before joining Rutgers, he had worked at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, where he established and directed the first think-tank website in 1994, introduced video-conferencing, a book management system, and an innovative online learning solution, championed enterprise document management, designed national educational surveys and data processing, and taught statistical programming to incoming research assistants.

In his media career, he had worked for ten years as White House correspondent for several American and Central European media (Radio Free Europe's Hungarian and South Slavic Service, Washington/Munich/Prague; then-independent global satellite Duna TV, Budapest; and Magyar Szó daily, Novi Sad, former Yugoslavia). He is the co-founder of the Press Freedom Foundation, a multilingual independent media organization in Serbia.

At the Rutgers Department of Political Science, he teaches International Relations, and Mass Media and Democracy, as a Ph.D. candidate.

Tibor’s research interests include populism, the European Union, minority rights, and the application of technology for better global understanding.