Vilmos Szabó – Senior State Secretary
Personal data:
Name:	Vilmos Szabó
Date and place of birth:	Sarud, 17 July, 1952
Marital status:	married, three children
Profession:	politician, M. P.
Education:	Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, B. A. in history and German language
Languages:	German, English
Professional experience:
April 21, 2009 -	Senior State Secretary
June 19, 2006 - April 21, 2009	Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Hungarians Abroad in the Parliament
October 4, 2004 - June 8, 2006	Political State Secretary in charge of foreign relations and nation policy at the Prime Minister’s Office
May 27, 2002 - October 3, 2004	Political State Secretary in charge of ethnic and national minorities at the Prime Minister’s Office
February 2001 - March 2002	Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Parliament
From 1998 to the present day	Member of Parliament (Hungarian Socialist Party)
1994 - 1998	Head of International Secretariat, Hungarian Socialist Party, member of the Budapest city council
1990 - 1994	Member of district council (Budapest 11th district)
1989 - 1994	Executive secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Party in Budapest’s 11th district
1988 - 1989	Desk officer at the Scientific and Cultural Department of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party Central Committee
1982 - 1988	Desk officer and secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party at the Budapest 11th district committee
1976 - 1982	Assistant professor at the Budapest University of Technical Sciences
1975 - 1976	Administrative clerk at the “Volán” Transport Trust

 
Other:

1998 - 2002 Member of the Hungarian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Central European Initiative.