Tibor Navracsics

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Tibor Navracsics (Veszprém, Hungary, 13. June 1966 -) lawyer and political scientist, head of parliamentary group of the Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union political party.He is married, he has a daughter, who was born in 1991.


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[edit] Education

  • Degree in Law (University of ELTE 1990);
  • Higher degree as Judge (1992);
  • Lawyer and Political Scientist (ELTE 1994);
  • PhD in Political Science (ELTE 2000)

[edit] Language skills

  • English (proficiency);
  • Serbian, Croatian (intermediate)

[edit] Internal Scholarships

  • 1994- 1996: Scholarship of the Soros Foundation, „Open Society and it’s New Enemies” ( with Attila Ágh, Martin Bútora, Zora Bútora, and András Lánczi);
  • 1996-1999: OTKA- competition: „The Democracy in Middle- Eastern Europe” ( with Sándor Gallai, Sebestyén Gorka and Robert Szabó)

[edit] External Scholarships

  • 1-31. October 1995: CEEPUS- Scholarship, University of Zagreb, Department of Political;
  • 1. October 1996- 30 June 1997: Leverhulme- research/fellow Scholarship, University of Sussex, European Institute (Brighton, GB);
  • 1998-2001: Jean Monnet-Scholarship

[edit] 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

[edit] Current occupation

[edit] 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

[edit] Navracsics courses at the University ELTE

  • European Internal Politics
  • Comparative Politics
  • Analytical Course of Internal Politics
  • Policies of the European Union (with Krisztina Arató)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

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