Zoltán Cséfalvay
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His Excellency Zoltán Cséfalvay | |
|---|---|
| Minister of State for the National Economy | |
| In office 2014–2018 | |
| Permanent Representative of Hungary to UNESCO and the OECD | |
| In office 2010–2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 27, 1958 |
| Spouse | Anna Maria Bartal |
| Children | Chris von Csefalvay |
| Education | University of Debrecen, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, LMU Munich |
| Occupation | Politician, university lecturer and geographer |
| Cabinet | First Orbán government, Second Orbán Government |
| Awards | Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland |
Zoltán Cséfalvay is a Hungarian politician, economist and geographer. He served as Secretary of State for Strategy with the Ministry of the National Economy of Hungary, and later as Hungary's ambassador to UNESCO and the OECD.[citation needed]
Born in Máriakálnok, Hungary in 1958, Zoltán Cséfalvay attended the University of Debrecen from 1977 to 1982, and between 1987 and 1988, he held a German Academic Exchange Service grant at LMU Munich.[1] He received his PhD in geography from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1996.[2] The University of Debrecen awarded him his habilitation in 1999.[1]
Career
First Orbán government
He was appointed Deputy Secretary of State for Regional Economic Development in the First Orbán government under Minister for Economic Affairs György Matolcsy.[citation needed]
Second Orbán government
In 2010, he was appointed Minister of State for the National Economy,[3][4] where he served as the ministry's Parliamentary Secretary as well.[5] During this period, he managed the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission in addressing the Hungarian deficit crisis.[6]
Joint ambassador to UNESCO and OECD
He presented his credentials as Hungary's permanent representative to the OECD and Hungary's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to UNESCO in January 2015.[7]
JRC Seville
After the end of his posting with UNESCO and OECD, he took up a senior grantholder's position in December 2018 at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Seville, Spain,[8] where his work focused on the impact of robotics on European industry[9] and the economic drivers of competitiveness.[10]
