Gábor Baranyai
Director
Centre for Sustainable Development Studies
National University of Public Service, Hungary
Mr Gábor Baranyai (44) graduated in 1997 from the Law Faculty of the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest and earned a Master of Environmental Law degree (LL.M.) in environmental law at the University College London in 1998. Following three years of legal practice at White & Case LLP Budapest, he served as Hungary’s environmental attaché to the European Union in Brussels between 1999 and 2003. Following his return to Hungary he held, until 2008, various positions in the Ministry of Environment and Water of Hungary covering areas ranging from EU decision-making, international affairs to the national enforcement of environmental law. Following a two year stay at the Office of Hungary’s Parliamentary Ombudsman for Future Generations Gábor became Deputy State Secretary for EU Sectoral Policies at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2010. His portfolio covered a broad range of areas including EU environmental policy, climate change, energy policy, agriculture, transport or the internal market. Gábor was in charge of organising the 2013 Budapest Water Summit. Since 2014 he has been the government plenipotentiary for the settlement of the Gabcíkovo-Nagymaros transboundary water dispute with Slovakia. He has headed the Centre for Sustainable Development Studies since 2016. Gábor is the author of several environmental and water law articles. He is fluent in English and French. Gábor is a farther of four little children.
