Qualifications:
· Doctor of Law and Political Sciences (Summa cum Laude, 1967)
· Candidate’s degree in Law and Political Sciences in (1975)
· 1969- Corporate legal counsel
· 1979- Trade secretary in Brussels
· 1984 Head of Section, then Head of Department at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Ministry of Trade
· 1989-1990 Government commissioner for privatisation
· 1990-1991 Administrative State Secretary in the Ministry for International Economic Relations
· 1991-1994 Administrative State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
· 1994-1998 Lawyer, Partner at Baker & McKenzie’s local office, Member of the firm’s European Board of Directors
· 1998-2002 Minister of Foreign Affairs
· 2002-2009 Lawyer, Director of Martonyi and Kajtár, Baker & McKenzie Law Firm
· 2010- Minister of Foreign Affairs
· 1987- Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at ELTE University, Budapest
· 1997- Associate Professor, Head of Department, from 2000 onwards University Professor, later University Professor at the Szeged University of Sciences from 2010.
· 1995-1998 Visiting professor at the College of Europe in Brugge and Natolin (Warsaw).
· 1996 Visiting professor at Central European University
· Member of the Batthyány Circle of Professors and of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
· Published studies and essays on international trade law, competition policy and competition law, European integration and Community (European) law, global regulations, Central-European cooperation as well as international relations.