Mr. Péter Sztáray
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Deputy State Secretary for Security Policy (Political Director)

Place and date of birth

Budapest, 1967.

Education

He graduated in 1993 at the Eötvös Lóránd University Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, then spent a year studying at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.

Employment

He has worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1993. Until 1996 he worked as a NATO desk officer. He worked in Brussels from 1996 until 2000 at the Atlantic Liaison Office of the Republic of Hungary, later at the Permanent Representation of Hungary to NATO. In 2000-2001 he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the Deputy Head of Department responsible for German-speaking countries. In 2002 he was Head of the Americas Department. In 2003-2007 he worked at the Permanent Representation of Hungary to NATO in Brussels. He was Deputy Head of Department, later Head of Department of the MFA Security Policy and Non-proliferation Department.

Public positions held

He managed and coordinated the activities of the MFA Club of Young Diplomats for several years.

Other

Languages spoken: English, German and French.

Married, he has three children.