Dr. Imre Molnár
Botschaft von Ungarn

Address: Unter den Linden 76, Berlin, 10117 Germany
E-mail: ILMolnar@kum.hu
Tel: +49 30 203 10 189
Fax: +49 30 224 87 207

Education:

• 1975-1980: Budapest University of Technology, Master of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
  
• 1980-1982: Budapest University of Technology, Master of Research and Development
  
• 1983: Promotion, Dr.-Univ.2001: Certified Information Systems Auditor
  

Professional career:

• 1980-1986: Development Engineer, VIDEOTON Training Centre, Budapest
  
• 1986-1990: Hungarian Embassy Berlin, Foreign Trade Delegate, Complex IT Solutions
  
• 1990-1995: Senior Developer, later Managing Director, VTSOFT Ltd.
  
• 1995-2005: Managing Director, Computer Associates (CA) Hungary
  
• 2001-2006: Lecturer, later honorary professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  
• 2007- Counsellor, Attaché for Science &Technology, Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, Berlin
  

Ágnes Reiter
Permanent Representation of Hungary to the EU

Address: Rue de Treves 92-98, Brussels, 1040 Belgium
E-mail: agnes.reiter@mfa.gov.hu
Tel: +32 2 2341 392
Fax: +32 2 2341 325

Education and professional qualification:

• 2009: College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium
  Master of Arts in European Economic Studies with the specialisation in European Law and Economic Analysis
  
• 2005: University of Pécs, Faculty of Business and Economics, Pécs, Hungary
  Economist MSc Degree in Economic and European Studies
  

Professional experience:

• 2007 – 2010: State Aid Monitoring Office, Ministry of National Development, Budapest, Hungary, Economist
  
• 2009 – 2010: European Commission, DG Competition, State Aid Policy and Scrutiny, Trainee
  
• 2007: International Factors Group, Brussels, Belgium, Assistant
  
• 2006: European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD), Brussels, Belgium, Trainee
  
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Unkarin suurlahetiystö

Address: Kuusisaarenkuja 6., 00340 Helsinki, Finland
E-mail:
Tel: +358 9 484 144
Fax: +358 9 480 497

Embassy of Hungary

Address: 35 Eaton Place, London, SW1X 8BZ
E-mail:
Tel: +44 20 72 01 34 56
Fax: +44 20 78 23 13 48

Dr. Árpád Erdélyi
Embassy of Hungary - Posolstvo Vengrii

Address: ul. Mosfilmovskaya 62. Moskva 119285, Russia
E-mail: EArpad@mfa.gov.hu  
Tel: +7 495 796 93 70
Fax: +7 495 796 93 80

Higher education:

• 1973-1978: Azerbaijan Institute of Oil- and Chemistry, Baku (Now: Azerbaijan State Oil Academy)
  Qualification: Geologist-mining engineer (Exploration and production of oil and gas deposits)
  
• 1998-2000: Budapest Business School (BGF), College of International Management and Business Studies
  Qualification: Economist
  

Scientific qualification:

• „Candidate of Earth Sciences” (1990)
  

Working experience:

• 1978-1981: Hungarian Geological Survey, Budapest (research assistant);
  
• 1981-1982: National Geological Exploration Co. (geologist);
  
• 1982-1984: Oil and Gas Mining Co. (geologist);
  
• 1984-1987: ELTE University, Budapest, Institute of Applied end Engineering Geology (PhD student);
  
• 1987-1992: Hungarian Geological Survey, Budapest (research fellow);
  
• 1992-1998: MOLTRADE – Mineralimpex, Budapest (prime associate);
  
• 1998-2002: MOL Hungarian Oil- and Gas Plc. (expert);
  
• 2002-2006: Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow Embassy, counsellor, S&T attaché;
  
• 2006-2011: National Innovation Office, Budapest, advisor;
  
• 2011- : Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow Embassy, counsellor, S&T attaché.
  

Dr. Norbert Somogyi
Attache pour la science et la technologie Ambassade de Hongrie

Address: 5bis, square de l'avenue Fochr, 75116 Paris, France
E-mail: sciences.par@kum.hu
Tel: +33 1 45 00 94 41
Fax: +33 1 44 05 07 37

Education:

• Agr. Ing (Keszthely,Hungary)1991
  
• Dr. Univ.Sc. Agr. (Keszthely, Hungary) 1995
  
• Dip. Plt. Breeder.(Gödöllö, Hungary) 1997
  
• PhD degree (Pannon University, Georgikon Faculty) 2010.
  

Professional carreer:

• 2006- Part-time teacher in the College of Horticulture at Gyöngyös (seed production of vegetable plants)
  
• 2005- Principal counsellor in the Ministry of Agriculture, Dept. of Research & Education with a serious responsibility to organize and manage the bilateral co-operation on agricultural research and education with French institutions and to increase the partnership between Hungary and the CGIAR
  
• 2001-2005 Second/first secretary at the Hungarian Embassy in Paris, France – agricultural affairs
  
• 2000-2001 Ministry of Agricultural Affairs
  
• 2000- Part-time scientific and breeding activity at the Szeged Research Unit of Pepper Research & Development Ltd.
  
• 1991-2000 R&D engineer (plant breeder) at Department of Condiment Paprika Research of the Red Pepper Research & Development Ltd.
  
• 1999/2002 Co-tutor of a gradual student working on comparison of several open-pollinated and experimental hybrid paprika varieties with classical methods and tests in molecular biology.
  
• 1999/2001 Hungarian project leader of the Luso-Hungarian Bilateral Mobility and Research Program on the studying of paprika production in Portugal and Hungary
  
• 1999 Co-lead organizer and –manager of the 1st International Conference on Alternative & Traditional Use of Paprika (Szeged, Hungary)
  
• 1998/99 Visiting Academic Scientist at University of Sydney PBI (1998-99) with the help of Australian Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation (RIRDC, providing a travel grant and a living allowance while in Australia), ASAS Pty. Limited and The University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute.
  Expert in the PHARE-HU 9606-02-01-32 project on the Biotechnological research and breeding on paprika (contracted by West Midland Enterprises Ltd).
  Participant in the PHARE-HU 9606-02-01-34 project on the development of paprika seed production technology (contracted by West Midland Enterprises Ltd)
  
• 1998 One month fellowship in Portugal at Instituto Politecnico de Bragança
  
• 1997/98 Co-tutor of a gradual student working on herbicide tolerance of different paprika varieties
  
• 1996/97 Several trips to Spain to study the Spanish condiment paprika production, breeding and processing.
  Hungarian project leader of the Hungarian-Spanish Bilateral Mobility and Research Program on the paprika production and breeding in Hungary and Spain.
  
• 1986/87 Assistant at the Cereal Research Institute, Szeged.
  

Cecília Szilas
Embassy of Hungary

Address: No.10 Dong Zhi Men Wai street, San Li Tun, Peking/ Beijing, 100600, PRC
E-mail: cszilas@kum.hu
Tel: +86 10 653 214 31/219 extension
Fax: +86 10 653 250 53

Education:

• 2005-2006 Tsinghua University, Faculty of Arts, Beijing
  
• 2005 Capital Normal University, International Studies, Beijing
  
• 2002-2003 Universität Hamburg, Sinology, Hamburg
  
• 2001-2009 Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Sinology
  
• 1995-2000 Budapest Business School, College of Commerce, Catering and Tourism
  

Professional carreer:

• 2000-2008 East Orient Consulting Ltd., project manager
  

Ambasciata di Ungheria

Address: Via dei Villini 12-16, Rome, 00161 Italy
E-mail:
Tel1: +39 06 440 2032/208
Tel2: +39 06 440 30598
Fax: +39 06 440 3270

László Korányi
Embassy of Hungary

Address: 18 Pinkas Street, Tel-Aviv, 62661 Israel
E-mail: lkoranyi@kum.hu
Tel1: +972 3 545 6661
Tel2: +972 3 546 6981
Fax: +972 3 546 7018

Education:

• 1972-1976 Technical University of Budapest, Electrical Engineering, MSc
  
• 1976-1978 Technical University of Budapest, Postgraduate Training: Biomedical Engineering
  
• 1981-83 Karl Marx University of Economics, Economist BA
  
• 1984 Ashridge Management College (UK)
  

Professional carreer:

• 1978-1981 Medicor Works Budapest, Biomedical R&D engineer
  
• 1978-1983 Technical University of Budapest, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, lecturer
  
• 1981-1986 Medicor Works, head of IT department
  
• 1986-1992 Medicor Medorg IT Ltd., head of department, later CEO
  
• 1992-1999 Onyx Software Ltd., CEO
  
• 2000-2006 Magic (Onyx) Software Enterprises Hungary Ltd. (Hungarian-Israeli joint Venture) CEO
  
• 2007 January-May, National Office for Research and development, MFA
  
• 2007 May – to present Science and Technology Counselor at the Embassy of the Hungarian Republic in Tel Aviv
  

Attila Erdős
Embassy of Hungary

Address: Minato-ku, Mita 2-17-14, Tokyo, 108-0073 Japan
E-mail: ErdosAttila@kum.hu
Tel: +81 3 3798 8801
Fax: +81 3 3798 8812

Education:

• 1994 - 1999 : Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
  Department of Japanese Language and Literature (1999)
  
• Postgraduate education:
  October of 1999 – March of 2001: Economic Research Institute of Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
  as a researcher of the Japanese Ministry of Education
  
• April of 2001 – March of 2003: Economic Research Institute of Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
  Scholarship student of the Japanese Ministry of Education (MA diploma)
  

Professional carreer:

• Ryowa Hungary Ltd.General Manager (June of 2003- July of 2008)
  

Embassy of Hungary

Address: 3910 Shoemaker St. NW, Washington DC 20008 USA
E-mail:
Tel: +1 202 36 48 270
Fax: +1 202 966 81 35