Speakers

Tristan Azbej is the State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Prior to his assignment in 2017 to lead the Government’s unique program dedicated to persecuted Christians, he served as a diplomat a four-year term at the Embassy of Hungary in Tel Aviv, Israel. Besides his foreign service in the Middle East, he has also lived for four years in the US, where he worked towards and received his PhD degree in Geosciences at Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University). Earlier in his career the State Secretary had been an active politician in the youth partner organizations of Fidesz-KDNP and also participated in development projects as a manager. He held various policy advisory positions (political advisor to the Parliamentary Factions of Fidesz-KDNP, political advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office, Head of Department for Parliamentary Affairs at the Ministry of Human Capacities). Azbej is married with three children.