Dr. Leonardo Orlando

Leonardo Orlando is a Senior Researcher at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Budapest. He holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations (Sciences Po Paris), a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Philosophy (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), and completed postdoctoral research in Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS).

He has lectured at various universities in Europe and Latin America, and has been a researcher at the Centre for International Research at Sciences Po Paris (CERI), the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA-Nairobi), at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, at the University of Economics in Bratislava and at the University of Oslo.

His expertise lies at the intersection of philosophy, political science and psychology. His work focuses on biological and evolutionary approaches to political behaviour, bringing together philosophy, politics and psychology. He also studies the contemporary vulnerabilities of higher education and their effects on society, and has established himself as a critical voice on issues of academic freedom, scientific objectivity and censorship within the academic sphere. His career spanning three continents gives him a resolutely comparative and interdisciplinary approach.

He recently published *Sex, Science & Censorship: The Taboo Truths of the Gender War* (Éditions de l'Observatoire, 2025; co-authored with Peggy Sastre).