József Ángyán | |
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Member of the National Assembly | |
In office 16 May 2006 – 5 May 2014 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Nagyatád, Hungary |
20 September 1952
Political party | Independent |
Spouse(s) | Ildikó Gött |
Children | 5 |
Profession | agricultural engineer, professor, politician |
József Ángyán (born September 20, 1952) is a Hungarian agriculture engineer, professor and politician who served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Rural Development from June 2, 2010 to February 5, 2012. He was a member of the National Assembly (MP) between 2006 and 2014.
He was born in Nagyatád on 20 September 1952. He finished his secondary school in Siófok, in 1971. He graduated as an agricultural engineer in the Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences in 1977 and he obtained doctor of sciences in 1979 and gained a specialized agricultural research engineer degree in 1980. He obtained his candidature degree in the field of agricultural science in 1993 and habilitated in the field of environment science in 1998. He speaks German and Russian in an intermediate level and English in elementary level.
His career tied to the Agricultural University of Gödöllő and later to the legal successor of this university. He was appointed to be a professor of the university in 1999. From 1991 till 1996 he was working as a founder deputy director and from 1996 as a director of the Institute for Environment and Land Farming. During this period the community of the university was able to establish 10 new university departments. He get the same institute director position for additional 5 years in 2006. He was the first who initiated and founded in cooperation with his colleagues the new course of agricultural engineer of environment management in 1990. He is also one of the founders of the Phd programme of the Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences in the field of environmental science and also head of environment management science field in the University. His activity in research and development is connected to agricultural, environment management, country developing and environmental protection.
He was elected MP of the Pest county regional list (Fidesz) in 2006 elections. He was a member of the Committee on Agriculture until 2010.