Name: Szabolcs TAKÁCS
Date and place of birth: Budapest, April 1, 1971
1999-2002 Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Social Sciences, Master of Arts in International Relations
1999-2002 University of Pécs, Hungary, Faculty of Law, major in European Law 1991–1999 University of Pécs, Hungary, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, major in
English and Croatian Language and Literature, major in Political Sciences
1989-1991 University of Zagreb, Croatia, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, major in English Language and Literature
November 23, 2020 – Chief of Mission, Embassy of Hungary in the United States of America
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
July 17, 2019 – December 31, 2020 Ministerial Commissioner for BREXIT
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
May 22, 2018 – July 16, 2019 Minister of State for EU Policies and Coordination
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Prime Minister’s Office
December 8, 2014 – May 22, 2018 State Secretary for European Union Affairs
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Prime Minister’s Office
June 6, 2014 – December 5, 2014 Deputy State Secretary for Security Policy – Political
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
July 1, 2013 – June 5, 2014 Deputy State Secretary for Security Policy– Political
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 16, 2012 – June 30, 2013 Deputy State Secretary for Global Affairs
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 1, 2011– July 15, 2012 Director General, Department of Asia-Pacific
August 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011 Deputy Director General, Department of Asia-Pacific
May 2010 – August 2010 Director, Office of the Deputy State Secretary in charge
of Global Affairs
July 2009 – May 2010 Director, Office of the Deputy State Secretary in charge
of bilateral relations with non-European countries and International Development Cooperation
July 2005 – July 2009 Embassy of Hungary in Doha, State of Qatar
Deputy Head of Mission Cultural and Press Affairs Head of Trade Section
First Secretary, (as of January 2009)
April 2002 – June 2005 Department of Asia-Pacific
Desk Officer of Southeast Asia, Australia and New- Zealand
Desk Officer of the People’s Republic of China Desk Officer of India
Desk Officer of the Republic of Korea and the DPRK ASEM coordinator and MFA contact point
Desk Officer of regional and inter-regional organisations
April 22, 2002 – Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary
9 March 2016 – Head of the Hungarian IHRA delegation
5 November, 2018 – 19 October, 2020 Commissioner General of Hungary in the Bureau
International des Expositions (BIE) and of the Dubai World Expo 2020
9 March, 2015 – 8 March, 2016 Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance
Alliance (IHRA)
May, 2014 Representative of Hungary in the board of governors of the European Peace Institute (EIP) in Brussels, Belgium
February 2014 Organizer of the EU-Kazakhstan Forum
July 1, 2013 – Afghanistan / Pakistan Special Envoy of the Foreign Minister of Hungary
Hungarian Representative of the International Contact Group (ICG) dealing with Afghanistan
June 2013 Organizer of the Budapest Africa Forum
October 2012 Organizer of the ASEAN Awareness Forum
July 2011 – July 2012 ASEM Senior Official of Hungary
June 2012 Organizer of the ASEM Sustainable Development Dialogue, Seminar on the Role of Water in Sustainable Regional Development Strategies
April 2012 Organizer of the China – Central and Eastern Europe Symposium
June 2011 Deputy Head of Task Force organising the 10thASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Gödöllő, Hungary on June 6-7, 2011
March 2011 Organizer of the EU – Japan Symposium
The Implementation of Hungary’s Asia-policy during the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
(EU Presidency Publications, 2011)
EU-Japan Symposium (Editor)
Languages: English, French, Croatian Married with three children.
July 2, 2021 at the Virtual Discussion