Dr. Anita Orbán is Director of Public Affairs and ESG for Vodafone Group. Previously she served as External Affairs Director of Vodafone Hungary and Vice Chairwoman of the Board. Between 2017 and 2020 she was the Vice President for International Affairs of Tellurian LNG. She also worked as Chief Advisor for Cheniere Marketing Ltd. Between 2010 and 2015 Anita served as Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security of Hungary. Prior to that she was the Director of Constellation Energy Institute, a think tank facilitating cooperation in the Central Eastern European energy sector.

Anita is the author of the book Power, Energy and the New Russian Imperialism (CT: Praeger, 2008). She was awarded with the Woman Executive of the Year in Energy Award in 2018. She is Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, Member of the Board of GLOBSEC and Co-Founder of the Women in Technology Association. She has been featured as one of the most influential female business leaders in Forbes Hungary for the last three years in a row.

Dr Anita Orbán earned her PhD degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston in 2007. She holds a Master Degree in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School and a Master in History from Tufts University. She earned her Bachelor degree in economics from the University of Economic Sciences in Budapest in 1997.