Katalin Cseh was born on 29 June 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[3] Her early education was at Toldy Ferenc High School in Budapest, Hungary.[4][5] She graduated from Semmelweis University. In 2015, she obtained a master's degree in Health Economics, Policy, and Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam.[6] In the same year, Cseh co-founded Momentum Movement group with nine others.[6] The group campaigned against the Hungarian government's decision to bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. They petitioned for a referendum on the issue and garnered more than 266,000 signatures. This resulted in the government withdrawing their bid.[7]
Momentum Movement became a centrist political party in March 2017.[7] In August 2017, she was appointed to the governing board of the party.[6] Cseh was a candidate for the party in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election.[8] The party did not win any seats in parliament, and the governing board (including Cseh) resigned.[9][10]
In addition to her committee assignments, Cseh is part of the parliament's delegation for relations with the United States.[3] She is also a supporter of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption,[16] the MEP Alliance for Mental Health[17] and the MEPs Against Cancer group.[18]
In September 2022, Cseh was the recipient of the People's Choice: Covid-19 Response Award at The Parliament Magazine's annual MEP Awards.[19] In March 2024, she was one of twenty MEPs to be given a "Rising Star" award at that year's MEP Awards ceremony.[20]
^"ALDE Group becomes Renew Europe". Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group. 18 June 2019. Archived from the original on 13 September 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2019.