Sándor is an Impact Manager for Validity – Mental Disability Advocacy Centre. He leads Validity’s advocacy strategies to improve human rights protections for persons with psycho-social and intellectual disabilities at European regional and international levels. In close collaboration with international and national level partners, he monitors human rights compliance and coordinates a variety of legal reform, research, capacity-building, advocacy, public policy and communications activities, contributing to the achievement of Validity’s strategic objectives. 

Sándor is a lawyer and holds a PhD from Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary in law and political sciences. He is affiliated with the Essex Autonomy Project at the University of Essex, UK. 

Before joining Validity, Sándor was a senior research officer for the Essex Autonomy Project at the University of Essex, UK. He worked as a legal officer for Hungarian umbrella organisations of persons with disabilities, he monitored social care and health care institutions for persons with disabilities and drafted monitoring reports as a senior legal adviser for the Hungarian National Human Rights Institution, he was a project manager coordinating advocacy and capacity building activities around the right to legal capacity of persons with disabilities at the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre, he worked as a policy officer for Caritas Europa in Brussels and he was a researcher in the field of disability rights at the Leuven Institute for Human Rights and Critical Studies at the University of Leuven, Belgium.