Background
Gábor Török was born in Szombathely on August 11, 1971.
Gábor Török was born in Szombathely on August 11, 1971.
He graduated from Nagy Lajos Secondary School, located in Szombathely, in 1989. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy summa cum laude from the Eötvös Loránd University’s Faculty of Law and Political Sciences in 2005.
He received his diplomas from the Eötvös Loránd University (Eötvös Loránd University) in history and political theory, both with distinction. In 1997, he placed first in the National Academic Student Conference. He teaches at the Corvinus University of Budapest since 1997.
Currently, he is the head of the Center for Political Analysis at the universities Institute of Political Science.
He is an Associate Professor since 2009. He was awarded a certificate of merit by the rector of the university in 2005 in appreciation of his teaching and research work.
He is a visiting lecturer at the Zsigmond Király College, the Delta Political School, Századvég Political School as well as the Academy of Drama and Film. Török was elected to the local representative body in Aszófő during the Hungarian local elections in 2010.
He planned to run as an independent candidate in the parliamentary by-election at Veszprém in early 2015, however, following the outbreak of the so-called "Orbán–Simicska media war", stepped down.