Background
SZENT-IVANYI, Istvàn was born on November 12, 1958 in Kecskemét, Hungary. Parents: Istvàn Szent-Ivànyi and Ilona Szent-Ivànyi (née Gâcsék).
Member of the National Assembly
SZENT-IVANYI, Istvàn was born on November 12, 1958 in Kecskemét, Hungary. Parents: Istvàn Szent-Ivànyi and Ilona Szent-Ivànyi (née Gâcsék).
University of Budapest, Master of Arts, anthropology, 1984, PhD., anthropology, 1990. Spoken languages: Hungarian, English, German.
Previously, he served four terms as Member of Parliament in the Hungarian National Assembly (1990-2004) being chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (1997-2002) and the Committee on European Integration (2002-2004). He was Secretary of State (deputy minister) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1997. He joined the Master of Fine Arts of Hungary in 2009 and from January 2010 until January 2015 served as the Ambassador of Hungary to Slovenia.
Szent-Iványi joined the Hungarian Liberal Party in 2015.
Unitarian
He has been awarded with the Commemorative Medal of 13 January for his courage and dedication to defending Lithuania"s freedom and independence in 1992.
He was full member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Vice-Chairman of the Delegation for Relations with the Korean Peninsula. He is founding member of the Alliance of Free Democrats (1988), was twice its Group leader in the National Assembly (1997-1998, 2000-2002), and he has been for years a member of its Executive Board. He was elected to the European Parliament in June 2004 and served as an Member of the European Parliament until 2009 and was head of the Hungarian liberal delegation and member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe political group in the European Parliament.
He has been a member of the AFET and BUDG Committee and Vice-chair of the Kore Peninsula Delegation.
Spouse Marianne Szent-Ivànyi (née Csâky), 1984.