Kinga Göncz
| Kinga Göncz | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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In office 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary | |
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In office 9 June 2006 – 14 April 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Ferenc Somogyi |
| Succeeded by | Péter Balázs |
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8 November 1947 Budapest, Hungary |
| Political party | MSZP |
| Children | 2 |
| Profession | psychiatrist, politician |
Kinga Göncz (born 8 November 1947) is a Hungarian academic and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary between 2006 and 2009. In 2009 she headed the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) European election list and was subsequently elected as one of 22 Hungarian Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
Göncz was born on 8 November 1947 in Budapest, Hungary. She is the daughter of Árpád Göncz, former President of Hungary. She graduated from the Semmelweis University of Medicine in Budapest in 1972. In 1978, she specialized in psychiatry, in the second half of the 1980s, specialized in psychotherapy. In 2004 she obtained the diploma in psychotherapy of the European Association for Psychotherapy.
Göncz worked as a psychiatrist between 1972 and 1978. Following this, she became a senior assistant at the National Medical Rehabilitation Institute, and took part in the development of the first social policy educational programs.
Since 1989 she worked as an associate professor at the Social Policy and Social Work Department of the Institute for Sociology of ELTE University, Budapest, teaching among others communication skills development, mediation and organization development. From 1994 to 2002 she worked as the Director of Partners Hungary. The organization is a member of Partners for Democratic Change International an international network, with the goal of the education of the culture of creative conflict management, techniques of democracy, negotiation techniques and change management. Within this, Göncz worked on the establishment of centers for the prevention and management of social conflicts in Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and in the former Yugoslavia.
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