the president

Tamás SULYOK

Born year: 1956

Member of the Constitutional Court since 27 September 2014.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of JATE, Szeged, in 1980. From 1982 to 1991 he was a legal adviser, and from 1991 until his election as a Justice of the Constitutional Court he was an attorney. From 2000 to 2014 he was Honorary Consul of Austria. Since September 2005 he has been a visiting lecturer in Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Szeged. In 2013 he obtained a PhD. degree, his research topic is the constitutional law of the legal profession.

From March 2015 to November 2016, he was Vice-President of the Constitutional Court. He was elected President of the Constitutional Court by the Parliament on 22 November 2016.