Zsolt Szekeres was born in Germany, worked as an international civil servant for the United Nations in Washington, DC.  He is a founding member of the Hungarian American Coalition (HAC) where he served both as Board member and President, and is the organization’s Treasurer since 1991.  Currently he is President of the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation (HHRF), working on behalf of Hungarian minorities for several decades.  

Fluent in Hungarian, Spanish, and English, Mr. Szekeres and his brothers founded Information for Investment Decisions (IID), in the early 70’s, with locations in both D.C. and Budapest helping DC based organizations such as the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America, Committee for Danubian Research and other non-governmental organizations in Hungary and in the United States.  He is a member of the Board of the Carpathian Foundation based in Eger, Hungary and Pro Ruris Egyesület, Mezőmadaras, Romania.