Tibor Navracsics
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Tibor Navracsics | |
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Official portrait, 2023 | |
| Minister for Regional Development and Public Administration | |
| Assumed office 24 May 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | Viktor Orbán |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Viktória Lőrincz (as Minister of Rural and Regional Development) |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary | |
| In office 2 June 2010 – 6 June 2014 Served alongside Zsolt Semjén | |
| Prime Minister | Viktor Orbán |
| Preceded by | Péter Kiss |
| Succeeded by | Zsolt Semjén |
| European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport | |
| In office 1 November 2014 – 30 November 2019 | |
| Commission | Juncker |
| Preceded by | Androulla Vassiliou |
| Succeeded by | Mariya Gabriel |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade | |
| In office 6 June 2014 – 23 September 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | Viktor Orbán |
| Preceded by | János Martonyi |
| Succeeded by | Péter Szijjártó |
| Minister of Public Administration and Justice | |
| In office 29 May 2010 – 6 June 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | Viktor Orbán |
| Preceded by | Imre Forgács |
| Succeeded by | László Trócsányi |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| Assumed office 2 May 2022 | |
| In office 16 May 2006 – 31 October 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 June 1966 |
| Party | KDNP (2022–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Fidesz (1994–2022) |
| Spouse | Anikó Prevoz |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Eötvös Loránd University |
Tibor Navracsics (born 13 June 1966) is a Hungarian lawyer and politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade from June to September 2014. He previously served as Minister of Administration and Justice between 2010 and 2014. He is a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party and was the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport in the Juncker Commission. Since 2022, he has been the Minister of Regional Development of Hungary.
Navracsics was elected in Veszprém County 1st constituency in 2018 and 2022.
Education
Navracsics holds a degree in law (Eötvös Loránd University 1990) and a higher degree as judge (1992). He also received a PhD in political science at the Faculty of Law of the Eötvös Loránd University in 1999.[1]
Career
- 1990–1992: Municipal Court, City of Veszprém – Tribunal Clerk;
- 1992–1993: Regional Assembly of Veszprém County – Research Fellow;
- 1993–1997: University of Economics, Budapest, Department of Political Sciences – Assistant Lecturer;
- 1997–1999: Department of Political Sciences – Senior Lecturer
- 1999–2001: Department of Political Sciences – Associate Professor
- 1998–1999: Prime Minister's Office, Communications Department – Head of Department, (Viktor Orbán's Cabinet);
- 1999–2002: Prime Minister's Office, Department for Press and Information – Head of Department;[1]
- 2002–2003: Parliamentary Group of Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union, Head of Department for Political Analyses;
- 2003–2006: Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union, Chief of President's Cabinet;[2][3]
- 2004– : Leader of the program-creating team, referred to as "Civic Governance";
- 2006– : Member of Parliament
- 2001– : Department of Political Sciences Eötvös Loránd University – Senior Associate Professor
- 2006–2010: Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union – Leader of the Fraction[4]
- The Congress of Fidesz in May, 2007, has accepted his (Navracsics's) polemical essay "Our Future";
- Member of the Political Sciences Association
- 2010–2014: Minister of Public Administration and Justice
- 2014: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade[5]
- 2014–2019: European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport[2]
- 2022–2024: Minister for Regional Development[6]
- 2024: Minister for Public Administration and Regional Development[7]
Professional experiences
- 1990–1992: Department of Social Sciences at the University of Veszprém – Lecturer;
- 1992–1998: Dániel Berzsenyi Teacher's College, Szombathely – Department of Sociology and Political Sciences – Lecturer;
- 1992–1993: Periodical Comitatus – Editor;
- 1997–2000: Secretary General of the Hungarian Association of Political Scientists;[1]
- 1996– : Vice-President, Association of the Hungarian Institute for Political Science;
- 1999– : Member of the Editorial Board, Politikatudományi Szemle (Political Science Review);
- 2001– : Member of the Presidency, Hungarian Association of Political Science
Publications
- Európai belpolitika (Internal Politics in the European Union). Budapest: Korona, 1998
- Political Analysis of the European Union, Bp., Korona, 1998
- Political Communication, 2004 (co-author: István Hegedűs-Szilágyi-Mihály Gál-Balázs Sipos)