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:

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.