Tibor Navracsics

Education

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 Professor;
• 1997– 2001: Department of Political Sciences – Associate Professor
• 1998–1999: Prime Minister's Office, Communications Department – Head of Department, ;
• 1999–2002: Prime Minister's Office, Department for Press and Information – Head of Department;
• 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;
• 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– : Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union – Leader of the Fraction
• The Congress of Fidesz in May, 2007, has accepted his 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

  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;
• 1998–2000: Secretary General of the Hungarian Association of Political Scientists;
• 1996– : Vice-President, Association of the Hungarian Institute for Political Science;
• 1999– : Member of the Editorial Board, Politikatudományi Szemle ;
• 2001– : Member of the Presidency, Hungarian Association of Political Science

  Publications

• Európai belpolitika. Budapest: Korona, 1998
• Political Analysis of the European Union, Bp., Korona, 1998
• Political Communication, 2004

  Field of research

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.
• 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. Instead he was given the portfolio for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport.