Tibor Navracsics

Tibor Navracsics
Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 June 2010
Minister of Public Administration and Justice of Hungary
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 May 2010
Preceded by	Imre Forgács (Minister of Justice and Law Enforcement)
Personal details
Born	(1966-06-13)13 June 1966 Veszprém, People's Republic of Hungary
Political party	Fidesz
Profession	politician, jurist, politologist

The native form of this personal name is Navracsics Tibor. This article uses the Western name order.

Tibor Navracsics (Veszprém, Hungary, 13 June 1966 -) lawyer and political scientist. He is married with two daughters.

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)

Language skills

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

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)

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

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

Current occupation

• 2001- : Department of Political Sciences Eötvös Loránd University – Senior Associate Professor
• 2006- : Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union – Leader of the Fraction
• The Congress of Fidesz in May, 2007, has accepted his (Navracsics’s) polemical essay "Our Future";
• Member of the Political Sciences Association

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

Navracsics courses at the University ELTE

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

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)

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.

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.

External links

• Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union
• The Hungarian Parliament
• the manifesto

National Assembly of Hungary
Preceded by János Áder	Leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group 2006–2010	Succeeded by János Lázár
Political offices
Preceded by Imre Forgács	Minister of Administration and Justice 2010–	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Tamás Fellegi	Minister of National Development Acting 2011	Succeeded by Zsuzsanna Németh