Gellért Horváth joined the CEEC in 2016. He was elected as Member of Executive Committee – responsible for foreign and government relations/advocacy – in 2016, as well as he was appointed as Vice Chairman in 2018.

Gellért arrived in Vietnam in 2012 and served as Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Hungary in Hanoi (2012 – 2015), later on represented Budapest Waterworks in Vietnam (2015 – 2017) as head of the representative office.

He was elected as CEEC delegate to the Executive Board of European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam in 2017, became Vice Chairman and later on Co-Chairman of the EuroCham Vietnam. In his capacity he was also member of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council for Administrative Procedure Reform (“ACAPR”) in 2017 and 2018. He participated in the EuroCham delegations to Brussels in 2017 and 2018, negotiating with European Institutions to lobby for the early ratification of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement.

Since 2019 he lives with his family in Tirana and works as a seconded EU advisor to the Albanian Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs supporting the EU integration process of Albania.

Christoph Schill was one of the founding members of CEEC. He hold a position of a vice-chairman from 2015-2017 and the board member afterwards.

Christoph has earned substantial expertise in finance and banking, human resource, project management and consultancy since 1996.

Christoph first came to Vietnam in 2010 as an organizational development & product innovation consultant.

He worked in EuroCham Vietnam as a Project Manager before taking on his current Green Growth Consultant and Chief Representative position at Pracsis South East Asia, a Brussels based EU service provider.

Now he lives with his family in New Zealand.

Csaba held the role of Executive Committee member in charge of events for a period of 1 year between 2016 and 2017.

After spending 7 years in Vietnam, Csaba moved back to Europe in 2019, and he currently lives in a small town by the sea near Barcelona, Spain. But that doesn’t mean that he left Vietnam altogether, since he still manages his English training company, Sonus Vietnam, providing online and offline English training programs to foreign-owned companies in Vietnam, such as Intel, Gameloft, Sonion, among others.

In 2022 Csaba became an investor in Oriana International Ltd., a Hungarian company with a 100-strong team developing business process automation applications using their proprietary, prescriptive approach no-code/low-code platform. Beside sitting on the Board of Directors, Csaba is also involved in the business development of Oriana, seeking out partners and sales opportunities in Spain and Portugal, as well as in Vietnam.

In his free time Csaba enjoys travelling to visit family members in the US, the UK, and Hungary, swimming in the sea, going to the gym, taking long beach walks with his life partner, Suzanna, and is currently thinking of buying a road bike to ride around the beautiful countryside where he lives.

CEEC’s Former Treasurer, Founding Member of CEEC

CEEC’s Former Executive Committee Member, Founding Member of CEEC

CEEC’s former Executive Committee member and co-founding Member. Currently he is an active member of  the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

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