Tamás Fellegi
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Tamás László Fellegi Hungarian politician, jurist, political scientist, businessman. Since 2010 he is Minister of National Development in Viktor Orbán
Viktor Orbán
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's government. Between 1996 and 2000 Sectoral Director, then CEE of Legal and Governmental Affairs of Hungarian Telecom
Magyar Telekom
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 (MATÁV Rt.).

Biography

Graduated in 1974 from Ágoston Trefort
Ágoston Trefort
Dr. Ágoston Trefort was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education from 1872 until his death. He was the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1885.-Family:...

 high school.
In 1976 he was admitted to the Eötvös Loránd University, he graduated in 1981. In 1985 he acquired a scholarship to Harvard University
Harvard University
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.

Upon acquiring his legal degree, he worked at the Institute of Social Sciences (Társadalomtudományi Intézet) of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
The Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party was the ruling Marxist–Leninist party of Hungary between 1956 and 1989. It was organised from elements of the Hungarian Working People's Party during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution...

. He concurrently held a position of assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of the Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem. 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
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
New York
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's New School. Participated in the 1990 transitional Hungarian elections by accompanying Viktor Orbán, FIDESZ
Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union
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's 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 és 1994 he was the political counsellor of FIDESZ's chairman and the Managing Director of DAC Foundation (Democracy After Communism). 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 Services http://www.kapsch.net/hu/hu/Pages/default.aspx. In 2009 he founded Infocenter.hu Media Investment Inc., as a majority owner, as well as Managing Director. At the time Infocenter.hu Inc. is the 100% owner of Hungarian weekly Heti Válasz
Heti Válasz
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 and of local Hungarian Radio 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
István Stumpf is a Hungarian scholar, political scientist and politician. A former member of the ruling Communist Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, he was the last Vice President of National Council of the Patriotic People's Front from 1989 to 1990. He also served as Minister of Prime Minister's...

.

He was appointed to be of head of the newly formed Ministry of National Development on 29 May 2010.

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)
Századvég http://www.szazadveg.hu/ 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
Századvég http://www.szazadveg.hu/ 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)
Századvég http://www.szazadveg.hu/ Kiadó, Századvég füzetek 5., Budapest, 1989.

Századvég http://www.szazadveg.hu/ 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.

Századvég http://www.szazadveg.hu/ 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.

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