Orbán Balázs

A Miniszterelnök Politikai Igazgatója

ILLYÉS Tibor

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Credo

I personally believe that this characteristically Hungarian attitude, the inspiring burden of uniqueness, is a gift that equips Hungarians to successfully face the 21st century. If I can play my role in this fight, it will already have been worth it. As my grandmother said a million times – and since then I have never heard a more expressive credo – ‘I do my bit.’

1986

Personal information

Born in Budapest, February 13 1986 Married, father of two children

1998

High-school studies

Between 1998 and 2004 he was a student at ELTE Apáczai Csere János High School and College in Budapest.

2004

University studies

Between 2004 and 2012, he studied at the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Government and Law, and graduated in law and political science.

2009

First steps in public administration

Between 2009 and 2012, he was a legal expert at the Ministry of Justice.

2012

Years at the Századvég Foundation

In 2012 he became an employee of the Századvég Foundation (a conservative think tank), where he was a regulatory expert until 2013, then the Foundation's research director from 2013. Until 2018, he managed and coordinated public law and public policy research at the Foundation. Between 2016 and 2018, he was a member of the board of trustees of the Századvég Foundation.

2015

Head of the Migration Research Institute

Between 2015 and 2019, he was the first director of the Migration Research Institute jointly founded by Századvég and the Mathias Corvinus Collegium.

2015

Hungarian youth in the service of the nation

From 2015 he was an assistant professor at the University of Public Service. Since 2018 he has been the chairman of the Advisory Board, and is responsible, among other things, for the development and modernization of the university.

2018

Government role

Between 2018 and 2022, he was Deputy Minister and Parliamentary and Strategic State Secretary to the Prime Minister's Office.

2020

Talent management as a national strategic issue

Since 2020 he has been chairman of the board of trustees at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium.

2021

The Prime Minister’s Political Director

Since August 23, 2021 he has been Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's political director

2022

Member of Parliament

Since 2022 he has been a Member of Parliament for Fidesz.

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Memorable Moments

With Pope Francis in the Vatican

In Kötcse, at a meeting of conservative civic society

In Florida, the freest state in the USA, at the National Conservatism conference

As director of the Migration Research Institute, on the front line in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraqi Kurdistan

With Tucker Carlson, the American Fox News commentator, at Hungary's southern border fence

Discussion on the book The Hungarian Way of Strategy at the invitation of the Scruton café and bookshop

On a visit to the eastern border

With former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, an long-time friend of Hungary

At the Warsaw launch of The Hungarian Way of Strategy

Meeting in Tokyo with Takaya Imai and Tomohiko Taniguchi, close colleagues of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe

At an exciting round table discussion in Tusványos on the new conservatism of the 21st century

With Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the Organization of Turkic States summit in Samarkand

At the graduation ceremony for graduates of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Public Service

At the Bled Strategic Forum

Meeting with American conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro

At the 2020 launch of The Hungarian Way of Strategy, which has since been published in English and Polish

At the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow

We go forwards, not backwards! – at the opening of the new bicycle route in Nyírgelse

Meeting with US President Donald J. Trump

Conversation with three-time Olympic champion Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszú at the Prime Minister's Office’s event series at

Meeting with Dennis Prager, one of the best-known conservative political commentators in the United States, co-founder of the internet platform PragerU, at MCC Feszt

Minutes before a cabinet meeting

Meeting with Arthur Schneier, Chief Rabbi of New York's Park East Synagogue, at the Carmelite Monastery

In the American capital of music, Nashville, with ourgood friend Kid Rock

Discussion with former British ambassador Iain Lindsayat the Brain Bar future festival atthe House of Music in Hungary

At the Brussels launch of The Hungarian Way of Strategy

In a refugee camp in Bangladesh

With Patrick J. Deneen, American political scientist and author of the bestselling book Why Liberalism Failed

Tusványos 2022: Some things are eternal!

At the Italian Conservatism conference in Rome

With political commentator Michael Knowles, bestselling author of Reasons to Vote For Democrats

At the launch of The Hungarian Way of Strategy at the fifth Polish-Hungarian Summer University

With Matteo Salvini, leader of the Italian right-wing party Lega

At the Highlights of Hungary award ceremony

MCC Feszt 2022

World-famous Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson visits Hungary

At the Washington launch of The Hungarian Way of Strategy

In a Christian village near Mosul, liberated from ISIS

With Hungarian water polo player Dénes Kemény, the ‘golden captain’

At the launch of Rod Dreher's book The Benedict Option, with close friends of Hungary

Lecture for the 2022 class of the Hungarian Public Administration Scholarship Program

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Niall Ferguson at the opening of the academic year at Mathias Corvinus Collegium

Campaign tour in the Hungarian countryside – Hungary comes first!

At a panel discussion with writer Rod Dreher and philosopher Peter Boghossian at the MCC Budapest Summit conference

With German historian Andreas Rödder at the Hungarian launch of his book Conservative 21.0: An Agenda for Germany

With the speakers and guests of the 2022 CPAC Hungary

Speaking at CPAC in Tokyo

Meeting a Yazidi family in an Iraqi refugee camp with historian Tamás Dezső

World-famous American political scientist John Mearsheimer visits the Carmelite monastery

In Budapest, at the Hungarian-Austrian-Serbian summit, the main topic of which was joint action against illegal migration.

The Gidrán, the coolest armored vehicle in the world!

Both Minister Gergely Gulyás and I were delighted with the victory.

At the Stipendium Peregrinum Scholarship Program’s camp

At the Hungary–France European Championship football match

In the newly opened building of Ludovika Collegium, the talent development program of the University of Public Service

Selfie with the students of Mathias Corvinus Collegium

In a Nigerian refugee camp located in a region affected by the activities of Boko Haram

Interviews

Die Weltwoche interview

Guancha Exclusive Interview

Xinhua News: Hungarian official sees promising future for BRI

Publications

Press release - Change is needed in Brussels

The Critic: Financial strain in the EU

Baku Dialogues: A Model for Connectivity Hungary’s Strong Bond with the Turkic World

Public appearances

01

Launch of the French edition of 'The Hungarian Way of Strategy' in Paris

02

Italian Conservativism Conference Keynote Speech - 2023

03

Athens Democracy Forum 2023

Books

Politics

Hussar Cut: The Hungarian Strategy for Connectivity

Politics

The Hungarian Way of Strategy

Politics

Der ungarische Staat