After graduating from the College of Foreign Trade in Budapest, he obtained his master’s degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science of the University of London in 1993. During his career he has worked at various fields of international relations; for close to 15 years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and for more than 10 years in higher education. As a diplomat, he was posted abroad twice: he served as the deputy head of mission at the Embassy of Hungary in Dublin between 2002 and 2006 and as ambassador to The Hague between 2011 and 2014. During his tenure in the Netherlands, besides being accredited to the Dutch Government, he also represented Hungary in international organisations having their seat in The Hague. Between 2007 and 2010, he worked as the director of international relations at Semmelweis University. He held the same position at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary between 2015 and June 2021.