Tibor Navracsics

The native form of this personal name is Navracsics Tibor. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Tibor Navracsics
Official portrait, 2023
Minister for Regional Development and Public Administration
Incumbent
Assumed office
24 May 2022
Prime MinisterViktor Orbán
Preceded byOffice established
European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport
In office
1 November 2014 – 30 November 2019
PresidentJean-Claude Juncker
Preceded byAndroulla Vassiliou
Succeeded byMariya Gabriel
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade
In office
6 June 2014 – 23 September 2014
Prime MinisterViktor Orbán
Preceded byJános Martonyi
Succeeded byPéter Szijjártó
Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary
In office
2 June 2010 – 6 June 2014
Served alongside Zsolt Semjén
Prime MinisterViktor Orbán
Preceded byPéter Kiss
Succeeded byZsolt Semjén
Minister of Public Administration and Justice
In office
29 May 2010 – 6 June 2014
Prime MinisterViktor Orbán
Preceded byImre Forgács
Succeeded byLászló Trócsányi
Member of the National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 May 2022
In office
16 May 2006 – 31 October 2014
Personal details
Born (1966-06-13) 13 June 1966 (age 58)
Veszprém, Hungary
Political partyKDNP (2022–present)
Other political
affiliations		Fidesz (1994–2022)
SpouseAnikó Prevoz
Children2
Alma materEötvös Loránd University

Tibor Navracsics (born 13 June 1966) is a Hungarian lawyer and politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade from June to September 2014. He previously served as Minister of Administration and Justice between 2010 and 2014. He is a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party and was the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport in the Juncker Commission. Since 2022, he has been the Minister of Regional Development of Hungary.

Education

Navracsics holds a degree in law (Eötvös Loránd University 1990) and a higher degree as judge (1992). He also received a PhD in political science at the Faculty of Law of the Eötvös Loránd University in 1999.[1]

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 Lecturer;
  • 1997–1999: Department of Political Sciences – Senior Lecturer
  • 1999–2001: 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;[1]
  • 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;[2][3]
  • 2004– : Leader of the program-creating team, referred to as "Civic Governance";
  • 2006– : Member of Parliament
  • 2001– : Department of Political Sciences Eötvös Loránd University – Senior Associate Professor
  • 2006–2010: Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union – Leader of the Fraction[4]
  • The Congress of Fidesz in May, 2007, has accepted his (Navracsics's) polemical essay "Our Future";
  • Member of the Political Sciences Association
  • 2010–2014: Minister of Public Administration and Justice
  • 2014: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade[5]
  • 2014–2019: European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport[2]
  • 2022–2024: Minister for Regional Development[6]
  • 2024: Minister for Public Administration and Regional Development[7]

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 Political Sciences – Lecturer;
  • 1992–1993: Periodical Comitatus – Editor;
  • 1997–2000: Secretary General of the Hungarian Association of Political Scientists;[1]
  • 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

Publications

  • Európai belpolitika (Internal Politics in the European Union). Budapest: Korona, 1998
  • Political Analysis of the European Union, Bp., Korona, 1998
  • 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.[8] Because he speaks Serbo-Croatian,[5] 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 debates 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.[8]
  • On 6 October 2014, the European Parliament proposed to reject him as EU commissioner-designate since he was found unsuitable for the post related to citizenship.[9] Instead he was given the portfolio for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Curriculum Vitae of Tibor Navracsics, Dr" (PDF). www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  2. ^ a b "Tibor Navracsics". POLITICO. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  3. ^ "Government - Prime Minister's Office - Deputy Prime Ministers - Tibor Navracsics, Dr". 2010-2014.kormany.hu. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  4. ^ Origo. "Navracsics Tibor a KDNP frakciójában folytatja". www.origo.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  5. ^ a b "Navracsics named as Hungary's European commissioner". POLITICO. 2014-07-31. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  6. ^ "Press corner". European Commission - European Commission. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  7. ^ Leitner, Attila (2023-11-21). "Navracsics to head new public administration ministry". The Budapest Times. Retrieved 2024-04-26.
  8. ^ a b "Symposium on youth participation in a digitalised world". www.coe.int. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  9. ^ "MEPs reject Hungary's Navracsics for top EU culture job". Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  10. ^ "Juncker's team". POLITICO. 2014-10-26. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
National Assembly of Hungary
Preceded by Leader of Fidesz in the National Assembly
2006–2010 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary
2010–2014
Served alongside: Zsolt Semjén 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Public Administration and Justice
2010–2014 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of National Development
Acting
2011 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade
2014 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Hungarian European Commissioner
2014–2019 		Succeeded by
Preceded byas European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport
2014–2019 		Succeeded byas European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth
Preceded by
Office established
 Minister of Regional Development
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incumbent