Background
Szatmáry was born to a tradesman and craftsman family, his parents were involved in the food trade from the 1980s.
Szatmáry was born to a tradesman and craftsman family, his parents were involved in the food trade from the 1980s.
After he passed the secondary school final examinations he attended and graduated at the faculty of geography and the faculty of political science of Eötvös Loránd University.
He participated in the family business from the age sixteen. Parallel to his university education he was a contributor in Századvég Foundation. In 1998 he founded a public opinion and market research company with his colleauges.
From 2000 to 2002 he worked as a civil servant and gained a short but valuable experience there.
He worked for the parliamentary department of the Ministry of Economy. From 2000 he was a secretary and from 2002 was head of department and also successfully took the special public administration examination.
After the years in the ministry he came back to family business as a managing director Theirs company gives work for approximately 30 people, they are in the catering industry and hotel business.
He participated in the work of the General Assembly of District XVI, Budapest.
He has been President of the National Board of Entrepreneurs" Party since October 2005. He was re-elected Member of Parliament in the 2010 parliamentary election. He served as Vice Chairman of the Economic and Information Technology Committee from 14 May 2010 to 14 February 2011.
He was appointed Secretary of State for Domestic Economy in February 2011.
He was elected President of the Organization of Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BKIK). He also served as President of the Hungarian Table Tennis Association between 2010 and 2011.
He was replaced by art collector Imre Pákh. Szatmáry was elected Member of Parliament for District XVI, Budapest in 2014.
As candidate of Fidesz, he became a member of the National Assembly (Member of Parliament) in the 2006 parliamentary election. He joined Fidesz in 1993. In the parliamentary election held in 2006, he was elected from the Fidesz Budapest Regional List.
Since 2002 he was elected member of the presidium of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of District XVI in the spring of 2004 and then general vice president of the organization in October. He was appointed a member of the Economic and Information Technology Committee on 30 May 2006.