Biographical Note

New Permanent Representative of Hungary Presents Credentials

 

(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service)

Márta Horváth Fekszi, the new Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations, today presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Until her appointment, Ms. Fekszi was Chief of Cabinet in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from April to November 2009, prior to which she held the rank of Senior State Secretary between May 2006 and April 2009.  She served as State Secretary from 2005 to May 2006.

A career diplomat, she earned the rank of ambassador in 2004, while serving as Head of the International Law Department between 2002 and 2005, a period in which she also headed the Legal Service Division (2003-2005).  She had served as Deputy Head of Department from 1992 to 1997.

Ms. Fekszi was Consul General in Los Angeles between 1997 and 2001, and Consul at the Hungarian Embassy in Vienna, Austria, from 1989 to 1991, having served as a senior executive assistant in the Consular Department between 1982 and 1989.

In her first overseas posting, Ms. Fekszi held the post of Consul at Hungary’s Consulate General in Kiev, Ukraine, from 1979 to 1982, prior to which she was a desk officer in the Consular Department, having joined the Foreign Ministry in 1977.

She was previously a lecturer in international and consular law at Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Economics, Budapest, and the Budapest Business School.

Ms. Fekszi is a graduate of Eötvös Loránd University’s Faculty of Law and Political Sciences.

Born in Pécs, Hungary, in 1954, she is married and has one son.

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