József Ángyán

József Ángyán
Member of the National Assembly
In office 16 May 2006 – 5 May 2014
Personal details
Born	(1952-09-20) 20 September 1952 Nagyatád, Hungary
Political party	Independent
Spouse(s)	Ildikó Gött
Children	5
Profession	agricultural engineer, professor, politician

József Ángyán (born September 20, 1952) is a Hungarian agriculture engineer, professor and politician who served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Rural Development from June 2, 2010 to February 5, 2012.^[1] He was a member of the National Assembly (MP) between 2006 and 2014.

Biography

He was born in Nagyatád on 20 September 1952. He finished his secondary school in Siófok, in 1971. He graduated as an agricultural engineer in the Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences in 1977 and he obtained doctor of sciences in 1979 and gained a specialized agricultural research engineer degree in 1980. He obtained his candidature degree in the field of agricultural science in 1993 and habilitated in the field of environment science in 1998. He speaks German and Russian in an intermediate level and English in elementary level.

His career tied to the Agricultural University of Gödöllő and later to the legal successor of this university. He was appointed to be a professor of the university in 1999. From 1991 till 1996 he was working as a founder deputy director and from 1996 as a director of the Institute for Environment and Land Farming. During this period the community of the university was able to establish 10 new university departments. He get the same institute director position for additional 5 years in 2006. He was the first who initiated and founded in cooperation with his colleagues the new course of agricultural engineer of environment management in 1990. He is also one of the founders of the Phd programme of the Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences in the field of environmental science and also head of environment management science field in the University. His activity in research and development is connected to agricultural, environment management, country developing and environmental protection.

Political career

He was elected MP of the Pest county regional list (Fidesz) in 2006 elections. He was a member of the Committee on Agriculture until 2010.

He was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Rural Development on June 2, 2010. He resigned on January 24, 2012. After that he raised many controversial issues in the relationship between the Fidesz government and some influential "close-ally" businessmen, including Lajos Simicska and Zsolt Nyerges, who were called by Ángyán as "oligarchs" in his statements. Ángyán called attention to abuses among state land lease tenders, where the method and criteria of evaluation remained unknown.^[2]

During the year, Ángyán rolled up the controversial cases in sequence. He published a comprehensive report, in which he urged the government to set aside instantly the already announced land lease tenders and review the closed ones.^[3] In response, András Tállai, Secretary of State for Internal Affairs, called him to leave the Fidesz parliamentary group.^[4]

In December 2012, he voted against the amendment on land bill of the Constitution of Hungary, despite the parliamentary group's central guide. As a result the caucus fined Ángyán, who maintained his position in an HVG interview.^[5] Ángyán left the Fidesz parliamentary group on June 21, 2013, when the majority of the parliament adopted a controversial new land act under scandalous circumstances.^[6]

Selected publications

• Ángyán J. (szerk.) (1987): Agroökológiai hatások a kukoricatermesztésben. (Az agroökológiai körzetek és a területi fejlesztés) Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, Bp., 210 p.
• Ángyán J. - Menyhért, Z. (1988): Integrált, alkalmazkodó növénytermesztés (Ésszerû környezetgazdálkodás), Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, Bp., 163 p.
• Ángyán J. - Kiss J. - Menyhért Z. - Szalai T. - Podmaniczky L. (1994): Alternative agricultural strategies and their feasibility in relation to the Hungarian conditions. In: Van Lier, H. N. - Jaarsma, C. F. - Jurgens, C. R. - Debuck, A. J. (edit): Sustainable land use planning, Elsevier Science B. V., Amsterdam - London - New York - Tokyo, 360 p., 69-78. p.
• Ángyán J. (1995): Sustainability as a Possible Basic Concept of Agricultural Transition in Hungary. Hungarian Agricultural Research, Budapest, Vol. 4, No. 4, 9-15.p.
• Ángyán J. – Menyhért Z. (szerk.) (1997): Alkalmazkodó növénytermesztés, ésszerû környezetgazdálkodás, Mezõgazdasági Szaktudás Kiadó, Bp., 414 p.
• Ángyán J. (1999): Nachhaltigkeit – Strategie für die ungarische Landwirtschaft (In: Scheiber E. – Larndorfer G. (Red.): Zukunft der Nachhaltigkeit, Ökosoziales Forum Österreich, Wien, 176 p.), 104-107. p.
• Ángyán J. (2001): Az európai agrármodell, a magyar útkeresés és a környezetgazdálkodás, Agroinform Kiadóház, Budapest, 308 p.
• Ángyán J. – Tardy J. – Vajnáné Madarassy A. (szerk.) (2003): Védett és érzékeny természeti területek mezõgazdálkodásának alapjai, Mezõgazda Kiadó, Budapest, 625 p.
• Ángyán J. – Balázs K. – Podmaniczky L. – Skutai J. (2003): Integrated land use zonation system in Hungary as a territorial base for agri-environmental programs (In: Helming K. – Wiggering H. (ed.): Sustainable development of multifunktional landscapes, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 286 p.), 125-141. p.
• Ángyán J. – Menyhért Z. (szerk.) (2004): Alkalmazkodó növénytermesztés, környezet- és tájgazdálkodás; Szaktudás Kiadóház, Budapest, 560 p.

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