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Gábor Szentiványi State Secretary, Political Director |
First name: Gábor
Surname: Szentiványi
Employer: MFA
Position: State Secretary, Political Director
Office telephone: (00361) 458-2213
Internet website: www.mfa.gov.hu
E-mail address: szatpolit@kum.hu
Postal address: 1027 Budapest, Bem tér 4.
Education:
Graduated from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences, 1975
Language skills:
English, with some Spanish and Russian
Work experience:
2007- State Secretary, Political Director, MFA
2004-2007 Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary to the Netherlands
2002-2004 Deputy State Secretary, MFA, responsible for the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Middle-East and Africa Departments, for International Development Cooperation, International Information and Cultural and Scientific Cooperation
1997-2002 Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary to the United Kingdom
1994-1997 Spokesman and from 1995 also Director-General for the Press and International Information Department of the MFA
1996 Received the title of Ambassador
1991-1994 Managing Director of Burson-Marsteller’s Budapest office (public relations)
1986-1991 Posted in Washington; First Secretary, later Counsellor - Spokesman for the Embassy
1982-1985 Served at the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1976-1981 Posted in Baghdad
1975 Joined the Foreign Service
Decorations, awards:
Middle Cross, Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
Officer, Order of Prince Henry the Navigator (Portugal)
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
Grand Cross of Merit (Chile)
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Oranje-Nassau (Netherlands)
Other functions:
Member of the Hungarian Foreign Affairs Society and the Hungarian Atlantic Council.