Curriculum Vitae
DR. ATTILA PÉTERFALVI
President of the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information




Personal data
Place and date of birth  Budapest, 29.03.1957

Contact

National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information ,  www.naih.hu
Address:    H-1055 Budapest, Falk Miksa utca 9-11.
phone:       +36 (1) 391-1400
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Education

1971-1975      Veres Pálné High School, Budapest
1976-1981      Budapest, Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Political Science and Law (Diploma cum laude)
1983               Lawyer's examination
1998               Postgraduate specialization in foreign trade law
2014               PhD graduate at the National University of Public Service

Work experience

1981-1983       Department of Administration, Executive Committee Veszprém City Council
1984-1986       Public Roads Directorate Veszprém City Council
1988-2001    Attorney of law, Law Firm of Péterfalvi and Partner (civil cases)


Other positions and appointments

2012-               President of the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information

2008-2011       Head of the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Civil Rights

2001-2007       Parliamentary Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information

1996-2001       Consultant of the Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information

1996-2000       Member of the Court of Arbitration for the Hungarian Artisan Chamber


1987-1988      Invited consultant by the Central Statistical Bureau on the draft of the first privacy bill

1991               NATO scholarship for a project „Freedom of Information, Data Protection and Individual Rights”


1986-  College Docent (Associate Professor), lecturer Budapest Corvinus University, Faculty of Public Administration

2006-  Honorary Professor
Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences

2009-  Guest Professor
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Kyiv University of Law

2021-  Honorary Professor
Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences



Publications
Author of 50 publications in Hungarian and English language (books, articles, university notes, articles and lectures on the institute of the ombudman, data protection, freedom of information, human rights  and civil law)
Language skills

State certificate of proficiency in English

Human rights related activity
2001-2007    Member of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party
Participant of several international human rights (ombudsman) conferences
Initiated and launched several common investigation with the Parliamentary Commissioner for Civil Rights on various human rights-human dignity issues
2007             Acting Commissioner for Civil Rights
2008-2011   Head of the Parliamentary Commissioners’ Office

Social activity
Member of Széchenyi Lions Club, Budapest
Co-founder of Iustitia Regnorum Fundamentum Prize

 


Curriculum Vitae Dr. ATTILA PÉTERFALVI
President of the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (.pdf)