Tamás László Fellegi (born 7 January 1956) is a Hungarian politician, jurist, political scientist, businessman, who served as Minister of National Development in
Viktor Orbán
Viktor Mihály Orbán (; born 31 May 1963) is a Hungarian politician who has served as prime minister of Hungary since 2010, previously holding the office from 1998 to 2002. He has presided over Fidesz since 1993, with a brief break between 20 ...
's government from May 29, 2010 to December 14, 2011. After that he was a minister without portfolio in Orbán II Cabinet. Between 1996 and 2000 Sectoral Director, then CEE of Legal and Governmental Affairs of
Hungarian Telecom (MATÁV Rt.). Currently, he is Managing Partner of EuroAtlantic Solutions, an international consultancy firm. In 2013, EuroAtlantic Solutions joined the Prime Policy Group consortium and registered as a
foreign agent
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at the
U.S. Department of Justice
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under the
Foreign Agent Registration Act
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's Prime Minister
Viktor Orbán
Viktor Mihály Orbán (; born 31 May 1963) is a Hungarian politician who has served as prime minister of Hungary since 2010, previously holding the office from 1998 to 2002. He has presided over Fidesz since 1993, with a brief break between 20 ...
.
Biography
Fellegi graduated in 1974 from
Ágoston Trefort
Dr. Ágoston Trefort (pronunciation: a:gɔʃtɔn 'trɛfɔrt 7 February 1817 – 22 August 1888) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education from 1872 until his death. He was the President of the Hungarian Acad ...
high school.
In 1976, he was admitted to
Faculty of Law
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of the
Eötvös Loránd University
Eötvös Loránd University ( hu, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in Hung ...
, he graduated in 1981. In 1985 he acquired a scholarship to
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
.
Upon acquiring his legal degree, he worked at the Institute of Social Sciences (Társadalomtudományi Intézet) of the
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
The Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ( hu, Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt, MSZMP) was the ruling Marxist–Leninist party of the Hungarian People's Republic between 1956 and 1989. It was organised from elements of the Hungarian Working Peop ...
. He concurrently held a position of assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of the
Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
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* Ignác Eötvös (born 1763, Kassa), Hungarian politician (1763-1838)
* József Eötvös (1813, Buda - 1871), a Hungarian statesman and author
* Loránd Eötvös (1848 - 1919), a Hungarian ph ...
. Between 1983 and 1987, he taught courses at the College of Social Sciences (HU: Társadalomtudományi Szakkollégium), today Istvan Bibo College(HU: Bibó István Szakkollégium). He was also founding editor of the periodical ''Századvég''.
In 1987, he returned to America to study and teach at the
University of Connecticut
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. He completed Graduate School and acquired a PhD from Political Sciences. Spent a year in Rochester as a researcher. In summer 1988, he taught a course on Eastern European social movements in
New York
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Film and television
* '' ...
's New School. Participated in the 1990 transitional Hungarian elections by accompanying Viktor Orbán, the
Fidesz
Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; hu, Fidesz – Magyar Polgári Szövetség) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Hungary, led by Viktor Orbán.
It was formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young ...
– Hungarian Civic Union candidate for Prime Ministership. In 1993, he returned from the United States and until 1997 ta`ught at the Legal Department of Eötvös Loránd University, as well as at the Political School of Századvég. Between 1993 and 1994 he was the political counsellor of Fidesz's chairman and the Managing Director of DAC Foundation (Democracy After Communism). In 1995, he established his consultancy business by the name of EuroAtlantic Consulting, working for international clients, such as Philip Morris, Mars Inc., RWE, Paks Nuclear Power Plant, MOL, HBO, Microsoft and UPC. Between 1995 és 1996 he was the Managing Director of EuroAtlantic Communications Ltd. Between 1996 and 2000 he was the Sectoral Director of Hungarian Telecom (
MATÁV Rt.), then CEE of legal and governmental issues. From the Summer of 2000 he became the CEO of EuroAtlantic Inc., and between 2007 and 2009 he was the Managing Director of Kapsch Telematic Service
In 2009 he founded
Infocenter.hu Media Investment Inc., as a majority owner, as well as Managing Director. At the same time, Infocenter.hu Inc. is the 100% owner of Hungarian weekly
Heti Válasz
''Heti Válasz'' is a conservative online publication in Hungary.
History and profile
''Heti Válasz'' was established in 2001. It is published weekly on Thursdays and is headquartered in Budapest. The magazine covers news on politics, economy a ...
and of local Hungarian Radio station Lánchíd. Infocenter.hu is a minority owner of Class FM, Hungarian national commercial radio. On 22 April 2010, he sold all his shares (52%) in Infocenter.hu to
Zsolt Nyerges and
István Stumpf
István Stumpf (was born on August 5, 1957) is a Hungarian lawyer, political scientist, sociologist, university professor, political science PhD, former constitutional justice at the Constitutional Court of Hungary (from July 2010 to July 2019). ...
.
He was appointed to head of the newly formed Ministry of National Development on 29 May 2010, in charge of energy, transport, infocommunication, climate change, EU cohesion and regional development funds. From January to June 2011, he was the President of the European Union's Energy Ministers' Council, Climate Policy Ministers' Council, and Development and Cohesion Funds Council. He also served as Special Government Commissioner for, and Chief Negotiator of Hungarian-Chinese, Hungarian-Russian, and Hungarian-Ukrainian Economic Relations. In December 2011 he was appointed minister without portfolio responsible for negotiations with the
International Monetary Fund
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. He managed the first rounds of the IMF negotiations and left the governmental sector in June 2012. Fellegi was replaced by
Mihály Varga
Mihály Varga (born 26 January 1965) is a Hungarian politician, current Minister of Finance (previously Minister of National Economy) since 2013. He also served as Minister of Finance between 2001 and 2002. He has been a member of Fidesz since t ...
on 2 June 2012.
Rogán to replace Lázár as Fidesz parliamentary leader in larger government shakeup
/ref> He reestablished his international consultancy firm, EuroAtlantic Solutions, he is currently the company’s Managing Partner.
Family
He is married, his wife is Ágnes Szokolszky
Ágnes Szokolszky (6 July 1956) is a Hungarian educator and psychologist, a Habilitation, habilitated associate professor and director of the Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged, Szeged.
Her fields of research are ecological psychology ...
, father of two sons.
Scientific work
T.L.Fellegi: ''Communism abandoned: transition from authoritarian rule in Hungary'', 1985-1990.
The University of Connecticut (Ph.D. thesis, 1993)
Fellegi Tamas Laszló: "Regime Transformation and the Mid-Level Bureaucratic Forces in Hungary" in Peter M.E. Volten (ed.), Bound to Change: Consolidating Democracy in East-Central Europe (New York: Institute for East-West Studies, 1992)
Fellegi Tamás László - Orbán Viktor: "Új hegemónia - Ellenzéki mozgalmak Lengyelországban 1980-81", Századvég 3, 1987
Fellegi Tamás, László: ''Áttekintés az összehasonlító politika fejlődéséről az 50-es évektől napjainkig az amerikai szakirodalomban''
Kézirat, ELTE LJTK. Politológiai Csoport, Budapest, 1986.
Fellegi, Tamás László:''A hegemónia-koncepció Gramsci felfogásában''
(Adalék egy fogalom értelmezéséhez)
Társadalomtudományi Közlemények, 1982. 3. sz. 453. old.
''A forradalom hangja.''
Magyarországi rádióadások 1956. október 23. November 9.
(Szerk. Fellegi Tamás László, Gyekiczki András, Kövér László, Kövér Szilárd, Máté János, Orbán Viktor, Stumpf István, Varga Tamás, Wéber Attila)
Századvé
füzetek 3., A Századvég Kiadó és a Nyilvánosság Klub közös kiadása, Budapest, 1989.
''Az igazság Nagy Imre ügyében''
(Szerk. Fellegi Tamás László, Gyekiczki András, Gyurgyák János, Kövér László
Századvé
Kiadó-Nyilvánosság Klub, Századvég füzetek 2. Budapest, 1989
''Orosz szocializmus Közép-Európában''
(Szerk.: Fellegi Tamás László, Gyekiczki András, Gyurgyák János, Kövér László, Kövér Szilárd)
Századvég füzetek 4., Századvég Kiadó, Budapest 1989.
Az orosz kommunizmus értelme és eredete
Szerzők: Csicskó Mária, Nyikolaj Bergyajev et al.
(Szerk.: Fellegi Tamás László Gyekiczki András Gyurgyák János)
Századvé
Kiadó, Századvég füzetek 5., Budapest, 1989.
''Századvé
1989/1-2.''
A Bibó István Szakkollégium társadalomelméleti folyóirata
Szerzők: Csicskó Mária, Kende Péter, Pető Iván, Simon Róbert
(Szerk.: Fellegi Tamás László, Gyekiczki András, Gyurgyák János)
Századvég, Budapest, 1989.
''Századvé
1990/2.''
Népiek és urbánusok - egy mítosz vége? 2. szám.
Szerzők: Heller Mária, Karády Viktor, Némedi Dénes, Nyikolaj Bergyajev, Rényi Ágnes Szabó Miklós, Szilágyi Ákos)
(Szerk.: Fellegi Tamás László, Gyekiczki András, Gyurgyák János, Kövér László, Kövér Szilárd, Máté János, Orbán Viktor, Sasfi Csaba, Sós Adrienne, Stumpf István, Varga Tamás, Wéber Attila)
Századvég Kiadó, Budapest, 1990.
References
Sources
The webpage of EuroAtlantic Solutions
Fellegi Tamás Linkedin profile
Tamás Fellegi's CV
Press release on selling Infocenter.hu
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1956 births
Living people
Hungarian political scientists
Hungarian jurists
Hungarian businesspeople
Government ministers of Hungary
Politicians from Budapest
University of Connecticut alumni
Ministers without portfolio of Hungary