Tibor Navracsics

Tibor Navracsics
Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 June 2010
Minister of Public Administration and Justice of Hungary
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 May 2010
Preceded by	Imre Forgács (Minister of Justice and Law Enforcement)
Personal details
Born	(1966-06-13)13 June 1966 Veszprém, People's Republic of Hungary
Political party	Fidesz
Profession	politician, jurist, politologist

Tibor Navracsics (born Veszprém, Hungary, 13 June 1966) lawyer and political scientist. He is married with two daughters.

Education

Navracsics holds a degree in law (University of ELTE 1990) and a higher degree as judge (1992). He also received a PhD in political science (ELTE 2000)

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 Professor;
• 1997- 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;
• 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;
• 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- : Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union – Leader of the Fraction
• The Congress of Fidesz in May, 2007, has accepted his (Navracsics’s) polemical essay "Our Future";
• Member of the Political Sciences Association

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 olitical Sciences - Lecturer;
• 1992-1993: Periodical Comitatus - Editor;
• 1998-2000: Secretary General of the Hungarian Association of Political Scientists;
• 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, 1996
• Political Analysis of the European Union, Bp., Korona, 1996
• Political Communication, 2004 (co-author: István Hegedűs-Szilágyi-Mihály Gál-Balázs Sipos)

Field of research

Navracsics’s field of research are comparative politics and internal politics in the European Union. Because he speaks both Serbian and Croatian, he wrote a number of analyses regarding the former Yugoslavia.

Notable facts

• At the invitation of the presidency he wrote about the ground values of the party a manifesto, after he organized several public debats on the topics of living standards, competitiveness, public services and justice. The manifesto was accepted by the 2007 Congress of the Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union.
• He was elected „Teacher of the Year 2007” by the students of ELTE.

External links

• Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union
• The Hungarian Parliament
• the manifesto