He was born in 1967 in Budapest and graduated from the Faculty of Law of ELTE University in 1993. He joined the Hungarian diplomatic service in 1993 and between 1993 and 1994 he studied at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna.
From 1994 on he held various positions in Budapest and in Brussels with a special focus on NATO and security policy. From 1996 to 2000 he served as a diplomat at the Hungarian Mission, later Delegation to NATO. From 2000, he was Deputy Head of the Western Europe Department for two years, and in 2002 he was appointed Head of the Department for the Americas. Between 2003 and 2007 he served as Deputy Permanent Representative at the Hungarian NATO Delegation. From 2009 he served as Director of Security Policy and in 2010 he was appointed Political Director in the rank of Deputy State Secretary. Between 2013 and 2018 he served as Hungary’s Permanent Representative to NATO. Since 2018 he has been in the position of State Secretary for Security Policy and Energy Security at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Budapest.
