Mr Attila MESTERHÁZY (Hungary)
President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
Attila Mesterházy has been a member of the
Hungarian parliament since 2004 and is currently the
vice-president of its Foreign Affairs Committee. In
2010-2014, he was the Chairman of the Hungarian
Socialist Party and the
party’s
candidate for the office
of Prime Minister in the 2010 and 2014 elections. From
2016 to 2018, he chaired the
parliament’s
Budgetary
Committee.
Prior to becoming MP, he worked as University
lecturer, Head of Department in the
Prime Minister’s
Cabinet and in the private sector as a PR and
communications project director. He also served as
State Secretary at the Ministry of Children, Youth and Sport (later - Youth, Family and
Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities).
Attila Mesterházy wrote a doctoral dissertation (summa
cum laude)
at the University of
Economics and Public Administration, Budapest,
examining the EU’s regional and trade
policies.
He also has a master’s degree
in economics (with honours) from the same
university, and studied at the universities of Valladolid, Spain, and Groningen,
Netherlands, as well as at the Diplomat Academy in Vienna, Austria.
Attila Mesterházy has been a member of the NATO PA since 2006 and was elected as
Vice-President of the Assembly in 2019. Previously, he also served as Chairman of the
Defence and Security Committee’s
Sub-Committee on Transatlantic Defence and
Security Cooperation. He has also held rapporteur positions on the Economics and
Security Committee and the Defense and Security Committee.
Attila Mesterházy was appointed as acting President of the NATO PA in December
2019.