Biography

Born on 6 September 1970, Kolozsvár (Romania)

European Parliament, Member
- Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats
- Fidesz-Magyar Polgári Szövetség, Hungary
- Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Vice-Chair since 2007

- Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo, Member
- Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Member
- Committee on Foreign Affairs, Substitute
- Subcommittee on Human Rights, Member

- Delegation for relations with India, Substitute

- Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, Substitute

Education:
- Institute for Comparative Human Rights, Strasbourg, Diploma of International Human Rights (1993);
- Eötvös Loránd University, Political Science and Law Department (1994);

Professional experience:
- Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania - advisor (1991-1994);
- Government Office for Hungarian Minorities Abroad - analyst (1995), Vice-Chairman (2001-2002);
- Teleki Foundation - researcher (1996);
- European Centre for Minority Issues - international legal expert (1997-2000, Flensburg, Germany);
- Chief advisor to the President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2003-2004).

Publications:
- Minority Governance at the Threshold of the 21st Century (ed.), ECMI, Flensburg - Open Society Institute, Budapest, October 2002
- Staatsangehörigkeit in Ungarn heute,in: Osteuropa, Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens, 52.Jg., 6/2002, Deutsche Verlags -Anstalt Stuttgart, 2002
- Aktuelle Autonomiekonzepte ungarischer Minderheiten in Ostmitteleuropa, in: Adriányi, Glassl, Völkl, Borbándi, Brunner, Ungarn-Jahrbuch, Zeitschrift für die Kunde Ungarns und verwandte Gebiete, München, 2002
- Legal and Political Aspects of Protecting Minorities in Southeastern Europe in the Context of European Enlargement, in:Wim van Meurs, Beyond EU Enlargement, Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers, Gütersloh, 2001
- Legal and Political Aspects of Protecting Minorities in Southeastern Europe in the Context of European Enlargement, in: Wim van Meurs, Beyond EU Enlargement, Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers, Gütersloh, 2001
- Innere Selbstbestimmung - Aktuelle Autonomiekonzepte der Minderheiten in Rumanien, in: Löwe, Tontsch und Troebst, Minderheiten, Regionalbewusstsein und Zentralismus in Ostmitteleuropa,Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar Wien, 2000
- Minoritätenprobleme in Ungarn und Rumänien, in: Neuss, Beate, Peter Jurczek and Wolfram Hilz (eds.) Transformationsprozesse im suedlichen Mitteleuropa - Ungarn und Rumänien
- Beiträge zu einem politik- und regional-wissenschaftlichen Symposium an der TU Chemnitz. Occasional papers no. 20
- Tuebingen: Europäisches Zentrum für Föderalismus- Forschung, pp. 31-41, 1999
- The role of the bilateral treaties in the protection of national minorities in Central and Eastern Europe,' Helsinki Monitor, Quarterly on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Volume 10 No.3, pp. 73-90, 1999
- 'Implementing the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities' (Co-author: María Amor Martín Estébanez), Flensburg, Germany, 12-14 June 1998. ECMI Report # 3, pp. 96, August 1999
- 'Bilateral Agreements in Central and Eastern Europe: A New Inter-State Framework for Minority Protection?' ECMI Working Paper # 4, pp 22, May 1999
- Kisebbségvédelem a nemzetközi jogban, Magyar Kisebbség-, II évfolyam, 1-2 szám, Kolozsvár, 1996
- Önrendelkezés és önkormányzatiság Kossuth felfogásában, 1861, Pro Minoritate, Budapest, 1991

Languages:
Mother tongue: Hungarian
Fluent: English, German, Romanian
Intermediate: French

Marital status:
Married with four children