Andrea Csanadi is the senior program manager of the OSI Arts and Culture Network Program, where she has worked since 2000. She holds a BA in General Economics and Management, and an MSc in Political Science from the Budapest University of Economics and Social Sciences. Csanadi holds an MA in International Relations and European Studies from the Central European University, where she also began doctoral work in Political Science.

In 1992 she received a diploma as a teacher of modern dance from the Hungarian Dance Alliance, and completed the European Diploma in Cultural Project Management Training Course of the Marcel Hicter Foundation in Brussels in 2004. She was formerly a contemporary dancer and was member of a number of Hungarian contemporary movement theatres.