László Szabó (born 1965) is a Hungarian diplomat, physician, businessman and politician, who was Hungarian Ambassador to the United States between 2017 and 2020. Prior to that, he was CEO of the Teva Hungary Ltd. pharmaceutical manufacturing (2010–2014), then Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the Third Orbán Government (2014–2017). He presented his

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on 8 September 2017.

Career

Szabó began his career in 1993 at

Eli Lilly and Company Eli Lilly and Company, Trade name, doing business as Lilly, is an American multinational Medication, pharmaceutical company headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, with offices in 18 countries. Its products are sold in approximately 125 count ...

. He started working as Medical Sales Representatives for one year. Then he was Marketing Coordinator and Product Manager for

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until 1997. In 1998 he worked in

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UK as

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and became HR Associate and

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. Between 1999 and 2000 he was the Country Manager in

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and the South-Pacific. In 2001 he was Director for

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for

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and

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. Before he became Senior Director for Human Resources, Global Medical,

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and

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in 2008, he worked as

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for Hungary from 2003–2007. After that Szabó left Eli Lilly and Company. From 2010–2014 he w as

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of the Teva Hungary Ltd. pharmaceutical manufacturing. From June 2014 – 2017 Szabó was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and since October 2014 Trade in the Third Orbán Government. In July 2017 he was appointed Ambassador of Hungary to the United States. Szabó hopes that the relationship between

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and Hungary will improve under President

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, thus Hungary can be more independent of

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. With effect from 15 April 2020, the Board of Trustees of the

Central European Press and Media Foundation The Central European Press and Media Foundation or CEPMF (, ''KESMA'') is a Hungarian foundation controlling many of the country's media outlets. Its assets consist of cable news channels, radio stations, internet news portals, newspapers and magaz ...

(Kesma) has appointed László Szabó as the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mediaworks Hungary Company Ltd.

References

External links

Kormány.hu
{{DEFAULTSORT:Szabo, Laszlo 1965 births Living people Hungarian chief executives 20th-century Hungarian physicians Ambassadors of Hungary to the United States People from Debrecen