Our Team
Balazs Kos (Founder and CEO)
Balazs Kos is the Founder and CEO of Blue Door Consulting. He uses his extensive international and European experience for the benefit of our partners both to advise them on building cooperation with EU institutions and to develop proposals and applications for direct EU calls. His main responsibilities include the overall management of the company and setting strategic directions.
He founded Blue Door Consulting in 2020 after working in the Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics (Member of the European Commission responsible for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport) until the end of the Juncker Commission's mandate in November 2019.
Before joining the Cabinet in January 2016, he worked at the Directorate-General for Education and Culture, where he gained first-hand insight into the functioning of EU institutions. He first joined the European Commission as a Blue Book trainee in 2014.
Balazs Kos undertook his studies on the European Union at Maastricht University (in the Netherlands), the Brussels School of International Studies, as well as King’s College London.
Oliver Balogh (Partner)
Oliver Balogh is Partner at Blue Door Consulting.
As Partner, he is leading the business development efforts of the company, bringing in a wealth of experience in developing and managing business partnerships with relevant stakeholders in both Hungary and beyond. He undertook his studies in the US, inter alia, at George Washington University in Political Communication, which brings an additional layer of expertise in developing and implementing lobbying strategies.
On a day-to-day basis, he is managing the renovation and business development of the historic Corvin Palace building in the heart of Budapest, as well as the newly opened TimeOut Market Budapest.