István Józsa (born 7 September 1953) is a Hungarian mechanical engineer and politician,

member of the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the represen ...

(MP) from the

Hungarian Socialist Party The Hungarian Socialist Party (, ), commonly known by its acronym MSZP (), is a centre-left to left-wing social-democratic and pro-European political party in Hungary. It was founded on 7 October 1989 as a post-communist evolution and one of t ...

from 2002 to 2018.

Work experience

Józsa earned a degree of mechanical engineer at the Budapest University of Technology (BME) in 1978. He also obtained a degree of machine construction engineer there in 1982. He became a doctor of technology in 1987. He earned a level of economic manager at the Oxford Polytechnic (present-day

Oxford Brookes University Oxford Brookes University (OBU; formerly known as Oxford Polytechnic) is a public university, public university in Oxford, England. It is a new university, having received university status through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. Th ...

) in 1990. He started his professional career at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology. He was an employee of the Olajterv Ltd. (today OT Industries), in various positions from 1980 to 1995. He became a technical director of Gépkar, Ltd. a private power engineering and construction company in 1995. He worked for the company until 2002.

Political career

Józsa participated in the foundation of the

Újbuda Újbuda (lit. ''New Buda'') is the 11th district of Budapest (), Hungary. It is the most populous district of Budapest with 137,426 inhabitants (2008). Until the 1890s, Újbuda's present territory was a field south of the historical town of Buda. ...

(

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, 11th district) branch of the

(MSZP) in 1989. He chaired the organization between 1989 and 1994. He served as a member of the local representative body of the municipality from 1994 to 2002, and led the MSZP caucus in this capacity. He was elected a Member of Parliament for Újbuda (Budapest Constituency XVII) in the 2002 parliamentary election. He was a member of the Economic Committee and the Committee on the Environment from 2002 to 2006, he was appointed vice-chairman of the latter parliamentary committee in September 2004. Józsa is a founding member and vice-president of the Hungarian-Chinese Chamber of Economy (ChinaCham) since 2003. Józsa was re-elected MP for Újbuda in the 2006 parliamentary election. He became a member, then vice-chairman of the Committee on Economic and Information Technology. He retained that position after the 2010 parliamentary election, when he was elected MP via his party's regional list of Budapest. He was elected MP from national list in the 2014 parliamentary election. He functioned as member of the Committee on European Affairs and vice-chairman of the Committee on Immunity.

References

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