Tibor Navracsics

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.

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

* [http://www.fidesz.hu Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union]
* [http://www.mkogy.hu The Hungarian Parliament]
* [http://www.jovonk.hu the manifesto]