Balázs Orbán (politician)

Orbán has taught at various universities and colleges since graduating from university, and since 2015 he has been an assistant professor at the National University of Public Service. He has been teaching at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium since 2015, where he also serves as the chairman of the Board of Trustees.

In 2012, he joined the Századvég Foundation, a conservative think tank, as a regulatory expert. He became the foundation's research director in 2013, managing and coordinating public law and public policy research until 2018.

During these years he was often appeared in the media, and his analyses were published regularly in various daily and weekly newspapers. Between 2016 and 2018, he was a Member of the Board of the Századvég Foundation. In 2015 he became the first director of the Migration Research Institute, a new think tank established by the Századvég Foundation and Mathias Corvinus Collegium. He held this position until his appointment as state secretary in 2018.

From 22 May 2018, Orbán has been deputy minister and parliamentary and strategic state secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister.[2] In addition to parliamentary representation, his responsibilities include the development of government strategy, and incorporating the most important scientific findings of various domestic and foreign research institutes into the processes of government strategy and legislation.

Since 2018, Orbán has been the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the National University of Public Service, where he is also responsible for the development and modernization of the university.

Since 23rd August 2021, Orbán has been serving as political director under Viktor Orbán, advising the Prime Minister on political, social, economic, public policy, and other matters. Additionally, he coordinates the work of the Prime Minister's advisers.[3]

Following his appointment on 25th May 2022, he continued his tenure as political director in the Fifth Orbán Government, expanding his role of assisting the decision-making of the Prime Minister. Orbán is responsible for the preparation of necessary background materials, briefings, and analyses related to the Prime Minister's work, coordinating his international activities, as well as monitoring general political, strategic, foreign policy, and public policy aspects of government decision-making and decision preparation.[4]

Orbán has been serving as MP since the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election.[1]

On 25 April 2023, he was appointed to oversee the Institute of International Affairs think tank, which aims to support the strategic decision-making in the Hungarian foreign policy.[5][6]

• Orbán, Balázs (2020). A magyar stratégiai gondolkodás egyszeregye (in Hungarian). Budapest: Mathias Corvinus Collegium–Tihanyi Alapítvány. ISBN 978-615-6221-01-8.
• Orbán, Balázs; Szalai, Zoltán, eds. (2019). Ezer éve Európa közepén: A magyar állam karaktere (in Hungarian). Translated by Rácz, Katalin. Budapest: Mathias Corvinus Collegium–Tihanyi Alapítvány. ISBN 978-615-80718-6-4.
• Mernyei, Ákos; Orbán, Balázs, eds. (2021). Magyarország, 2020: 50 tanulmány az elmúlt 10 évről (in Hungarian). Budapest: MCC Press Kft. ISBN 978-615-6221-02-5.
• Szalai, Zoltán; Orbán, Balázs, eds. (2021). Der ungarische Staat: Ein interdisziplinärer Überblick (in German). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Springer. ISBN 978-3658276157.
• Orbán, Balázs (2021). The Hungarian Way of Strategy (in Hungarian). Budapest: MCC Press Kft. ISBN 978-615-6351-13-5.