István Szent-Iványi (born 12 November 1958,
Kecskemét
Kecskemét ( ) is a city with county rights in central Hungary. It is the List of cities and towns of Hungary, eighth-largest city in the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun County, Bács-Kiskun.
Kecskemét lies halfway between the ca ...
, Hungary) is a
Hungarian politician, Hungarian Ambassador to
Slovenia
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, founding member of the
Alliance of Free Democrats political party, and former
Member of the European Parliament
A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.
When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ...
(MEP) for the
Alliance of Free Democrats, part of the
European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. Szent-Iványi has been chief foreign policy advisor to the
Hungarian Liberal Party between October 2015 and April 2018. Since 2021, Szent-Iványi is the foreign-political advisor of the
UVNP.
Career
He was full member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and vice-chairman of the Delegation for Relations with the Korean Peninsula. Previously, he served four terms as MP in the Hungarian National Assembly (1990-2004) being chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (1997-2002) and the Committee on European Integration (2002–04).
He is founding member of the Alliance of Free Democrats (1988), was twice its Group leader in the National Assembly (1997-1998, 2000–2002), and he has been for years a member of its executive board. He was Secretary of State (deputy minister) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1997. He was elected to the European Parliament in June 2004 and served as an MEP until 2009 and was head of the Hungarian liberal delegation and member of the Bureau of the
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe political group in the European Parliament.
He has been a member of the AFET and BUDG Committee and vice-chair of the Korea Peninsula Delegation. Since September 2009 he is vice-president of the Hungarian Atlantic Council. He joined the MFA of Hungary in 2009 and from January 2010 until January 2015 served as the Ambassador of Hungary to Slovenia. He has been awarded with the Commemorative Medal of 13 January for his courage and dedication to defending Lithuania's freedom and independence in 1992.
He published a book titled Quo vadis Hungaria ? on the Hungarian foreign policy in 2018
In 2021 He joined the liberal conservative
New World People's Party.
Personal life
He married Marianne Csáky in 1984.
References
External links
MEP profile on the homepage of the European Parliament
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1958 births
Living people
People from Kecskemét
Alliance of Free Democrats politicians
Alliance of Free Democrats MEPs
MEPs for Hungary 2004–2009
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1990–1994)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1994–1998)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1998–2002)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2002–2006)
Ambassadors of Hungary to Slovenia
Hungarian Liberal Party politicians