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, and from 2020 has been the chairman of its board of trustees. The talent development workshop provides international-quality training and scholarship programs for thousands of the most talented young Hungarians living throughout the Carpathian Basin, from primary school through to university education.

Leaving his administrative career behind in 2012, Orbán began working at the Századvég Foundation, a conservative think tank, where until 2013 he was a regulatory expert, and from 2013 became director of research at the foundation, where he directed and coordinated public law and public policy research until 2018. As research director, he was a frequent expert analyst on public service programs in the national media, and wrote regularly for various daily and weekly newspapers. Between 2016 and 2018, he was also a board member at the Századvég Foundation.

In 2015 the Századvég Foundation and the Mathias Corvinus Collegium co-founded the Migration Research Institute, of which Orbán became the first director. He held this position until his appointment as state secretary in 2018. The institute considers migration to be one of the most important issues of the 21st century, and in order to gain a more thorough understanding of this topic, it provides research, education, publication and speaking opportunities for experts in various aspects (humanitarian, security, cultural, economic) of migration. During its existence, the institute has organized several professional workshops and international conferences, and its researchers regularly carry out fieldwork in crisis regions and publish in domestic and foreign journals.

From 22 May 2018, Orbán has been deputy minister and parliamentary and strategic state secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister.[1] 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, and thus is also responsible for the development and modernization of the university.

From 20 August 2021, Orbán serves 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.[2]

• 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.