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