Ádám Pölcz, linguist, adjunct professor at the ELTE Faculty of Teacher Education and Early Childhood Education, head of the Kazinczy Workshop of the Petőfi Cultural Agency. For years he has been the main organiser of the Carpathian Basin Kossuth Speech Contest, a regular contributor to the Live Hungarian Hour video series, and has also produced a language educational programme for public media (Édes anyanyelvünk - M5, Kossuth Radio). His research interests include classical and modern rhetoric, current issues in language education and semiotics.