Balázs Orbán (politician)

Orbán has taught at various universities and colleges since graduating from university, and from 2016 he was an assistant professor at the National University of Public Service. He has been teaching at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium since 2015.

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 20 August 2021, Orbán has been serving as a political director under Viktor Orbán, advising the Prime Minister on his activities and on the preparation of his decisions on political, social, economic and public policy and other issues, and coordinating the work of the Prime Minister's advisers.[3] Following his appointment on 25 may 2022, he continued his tenure as a political director in the Fifth Orbán Government helping the decision making of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet too, on an even wider range of issues, including on general political questions, foreign, economic, social and public policy.[4]

Orbán was elected as MP in the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election.[1]

• Balázs, Orbán (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.
• Ákos, Mernyei; Balázs, Orbán, eds. (2021). Magyarország, 2020: 50 tanulmány az elmúlt 10 évről (in Hungarian). Budapest: MCC Press Kft. ISBN 978-615-6221-02-5.
• Zoltán, Szalai; Balázs, Orbán, eds. (2021). Der ungarische Staat: Ein interdisziplinärer Überblick (in German). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Springer. ISBN 978-3658276157.