Kinga GÖNCZ

LIBECommittee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

DSEEDelegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo

EMPLCommittee on Employment and Social Affairs
PETICommittee on Petitions
DASEDelegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

• Graduate of the Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest (1972). Diploma in psychotherapy from the European Association for Psychotherapy (2004).
• Practising psychiatrist (1972-1978). Associate professor at the National Medical Rehabilitation Institute, involved in the early development of social-policy education programmes (1978-1989). Associate professor at the Social Policy and Social Work Department of the Institute for Sociology, ELTE University, Budapest (1989-1994). Director of Partners Hungary, a member of an international network of organisations involved in teaching creative conflict management and the techniques of democracy, negotiation and change management (1994-2002). Lecturer in the social psychology of prejudice at the Human Rights Department of the Central European University, Budapest (1998-2003).
• Parliamentary under-secretary, Ministry of Health, Social and Family Affairs (2002-2004). Minister for Equal Opportunities (June-October 2004). Minister of Youth, Family and Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (2004-2006). First female Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006-2009).