Virág Kaufer was born in Budapest, Hungary. She started her career as a grassroots environmental activist, during the times when Hungary was eyeing EU accession. She is the member of the generation who had started their adult life with the promise of becoming part of Europe and realizing liberal democracy in Hungary. Between 2010 and 2012 Virag served as a Green MP in Hungary, and was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. She resigned from that post when the Constitution and the rules of the parliament were overturned unanimously by the ruling coalition. Soon after that she joined Greenpeace and currently works as a strategic advisor for the European Programme since 2017. She is proud that Greenpeace played a very active role during the last EU parliamentary elections in 2019 to rally progressive voters to the polls, and contributed to the historic achievement that climate action has become the top priority for the current EU Commission.