Ágnes Vadai | |
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Member of the National Assembly | |
Assumed office 15 May 2002 | |
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Born | Karcag, Hungary | 11 February 1974
Nationality | Hungarian |
Political party | MSZP (1999–2011) DK (2011– ) |
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Ágnes Vadai (born 11 February 1974) is a Hungarian politician and international relations scholar. She has been a Member of the National Assembly of Hungary since 2002. In her first several terms she was a representative for the Hungarian Socialist Party. She was a founding member of the Democratic Coalition when it was a faction within the Hungarian Socialist Party, and became its vice president after it became a separate political party. She speaks six languages, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Norwegian and German.
Vadai was born in Karcag in 1974. [1] She graduated from the Katalin Varga Bilingual Grammar School in Szolnok in 1992. [1] She then attended the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, where she graduated in 1997 with a degree in International Relations and European Studies. [1] She then worked as a research fellow in international relations, and studied abroad in Spain and the United States. In 1999 she became a graduate student at the Eötvös Loránd University, earning a doctorate in law in 2003. [1] Beginning in 2000 she was a lecturer at the Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University (which later merged with other colleges to become the National University of Public Service), and in 2007 she was appointed professor there. [1]
In 1999, Vadai became a founding member of the Young Left (hu), the youth wing of the Hungarian Socialist Party. [1] In 2000 she became a member of the Karcag municipal leadership of the Hungarian Socialist Party, and in 2004 she joined its national leadership. [1]
Vadai was first elected to parliament in 2002, and was re-elected in 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018, always affiliated with the Hungarian Socialist party. [2] From July 2007 to April 2009, she was Secretary of State in the Ministry of Defense. [1] In April 2009, she was again appointed Secretary of State in the Ministry of Defense. [1]
Vadai was a founding member of the Democratic Coalition faction of the Hungarian Socialist Party, and after it became an independent political party, she was named its vice president. [3]
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