Hungary Connects

March 12-13, 2024

Márton UGRÓSDY

Deputy State Secretary, Office of the Prime Minister’s Political Director

Márton Ugrósdy has been serving in the Hungarian government since June 2022 as Deputy State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister of Hungary. In his current role, he is responsible for preparing analytical and background briefing materials pertaining to the most recent developments of geopolitics, the internal dynamics of the European Union, as well as the activities of various key players in foreign affairsBefore joining public service, he was working at the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade from 2015 till 2022. He joined the Institute as a part time research fellow. Then in 2017, he was appointed as one of the deputy directors of IFAT, and in 2018 he assumed the post of director. In these roles, he appeared frequently in the Hungarian and foreign print and broadcast media and spoke at various events from the United States to Japan on Hungarian foreign policy.

Mr. Ugrósdy is a graduate of Eötvös Loránd University, with a major in political science.  After graduation, he was awarded the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fellowship Fund’s grant to work with the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, DC. Later on, Márton earned his PhD from Corvinus University of Budapest in political science, with a specialization in public management.