István Nagy (born 6 October 1967) is a Hungarian agricultural engineer and politician who has served as

Minister of Agriculture An agriculture ministry (also called an) agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister f ...

since 2018.

Profession

Nagy was born in

Újfehértó Újfehértó (Yiddish, german: Ratzfert) is a small town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. History By 1920, the Jewish population had reached 1,303 people, 11% of the total population. On 17 ...

, where he spent his childhood and attended elementary school. He finished his secondary studies at the János Balásházy Agricultural Secondary School in

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in 1986. He attended the Pannon University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in

Mosonmagyaróvár Mosonmagyaróvár (; german: Wieselburg-Ungarisch Altenburg; also known by other alternative names) is a town in Győr-Moson-Sopron County in northwestern Hungary. It lies close to both the Austrian and Slovakian borders and has a population ...

, where earned a degree of agrarian engineer in 1992. He graduated from the Faculty of Natural and Social Sciences of the Budapest University of Technology (BME) as an engineering teacher in 1996. He received a PhD degree at the Imre Ujhelyi Doctoral School of Zoology at the

University of West Hungary The main campus of the University of Sopron ( Soproni Egyetem, abbreviated SOE) is located in Sopron, Hungary. The school traces its roots to 1735.

(NYME) in 2007. Between January 1, 1993, and August 15, 1994, he taught animal husbandry and feeding at the Péter Veres Agricultural Vocational High School. Then he joined the academic staff of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the University of the Pannon University of Agricultural Sciences, then after the 2000 transformations, the University of West Hungary in Mosonmagyaróvár. He taught beekeeping, rabbit and fur animal husbandry and professional methodology.

Political career

Nagy served as deputy mayor of Mosonmagyaróvár from 2006 to 2010. He is a

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(MP) for Mosonmagyaróvár (

Győr-Moson-Sopron County Győr-Moson-Sopron ( hu, Győr-Moson-Sopron megye, ; german: Komitat Raab-Wieselburg-Ödenburg; sk, Rábsko-mošonsko-šopronská župa) is an administrative county (comitatus or '' megye'') in north-western Hungary, on the border with Slovakia ( ...

Constituency IV then V) since 2010. He was elected mayor of Mosonmagyaróvár as the candidate of the

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in the 2010 local elections. He held that position until June 2014, when he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary of State for Agriculture on June 15, 2014. Nagy was a member of the Committee on Audit Office and Budget from May 14, 2010, to May 5, 2014, and of the Committee on Agriculture from September 23, 2013, to June 18, 2014. He was also a vice-chairman of the latter committee for a short time between May and June 2014. Following the 2018 parliamentary election, Nagy was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the

Fourth Orbán Government The fourth Orbán government ( Hungarian: ''negyedik Orbán-kormány'') was the Government of Hungary from 18 May 2018 to 24 May 2022, after the 2018 parliamentary elections, led by Viktor Orbán. Policy Social policy On 2018 October, Orban's g ...

, replacing

Sándor Fazekas Sándor Fazekas (born 3 May 1963) is a Hungarian jurist and politician. He served as Minister of Rural Development, then Minister of Agriculture from 2010 to 2018, in the second and third cabinets of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. He served as ...

. He retained his position in the

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too.

Personal life

He is married to Dr Istvánné Nagy. They have together two children — a daughter, Veronika, and a son, István.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nagy, Istvan 1967 births Living people Hungarian engineers Fidesz politicians Agriculture ministers of Hungary Mayors of places in Hungary Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2014–2018) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2018–2022) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2022–2026) People from Újfehértó Members of the Fourth Orbán Government Members of the fifth Orbán government