Prof János Martonyi

Prof János Martonyi has finished his second term as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Hungary in 2014. From 1999 to 2009 he was a Professor and Head of the Institute for Private International Law and International Trade Law at the University of Szeged. Between 1994 and 1998 he was teaching at the College of Europe in Brugge and Natolin and the Central European University (Budapest). From 1994 to 1998 as well as from 2002 to 2009 he was managing partner at the law firm Baker & McKenzie, Budapest. He was government commissioner in charge of privatization in 1989-1990; he served as State Secretary in the Ministry of International Economic Relations in 1990-1991, as State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1991-1994, and Foreign Minister in 1998-2002.

He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, is an international arbitrator and member of the Panel of Arbitrators of ICSID (International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes), and author of numerous studies, articles, and essays in the field of international trade law, competition policy and law, European integration and international politics.