Szilvia Rézműves holds a Master's degree in Social Policy (Eötvös Loránd University) and is pursuing a postgraduate degree in International Human Rights in English (Eötvös Lóránd University). She is the development expert of Polgár Alapítvány az Esélyekért ("Polgár Foundation for Opportunities.") She worked for 2 years as a research fellow at the Center for Policy Studies at the Central European University, where her main areas of interest are social inequalities and human rights. In her thesis, research and current work, among others, she focuses on educational inequalities and minority rights of Roma. For 4 years, she was a team leader in the former Ministry of Education and Culture, managing nationality tenders in the background institution. Between 2014-2017, she was a policy officer for the Council of Europe in Hungary, working on democratic governance and Roma community participation (deepening her understanding of different methodologies such as facilitation and mediation).