Career
She was also State Secretary within the same ministry from March to November 2014. In 1997, Hegedüs graduated with an economics degree from Babeș-Bolyai University. She had undertaken studies in tourism and business management at Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University.
She has also a 2009 degree in adult education from the University of Pécs.
From 1997 to March 2014, she headed the Transilvania Trust Foundation, meant to preserve buildings in Transylvania. Subsequently, she became a state secretary at the Culture Ministry, and was promoted to minister that November.
She left her cabinet positions the following month when her party quit the government.