Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Ernő KÁLLAI, Deputy-Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, responsible for the Rights of Nationalities

 

 

 

Studies

 

2008                Ph.D. degree in legal theory and legal sociology at the Deák Ferenc Doctoral School of Law and Political Sciences, University of Miskolc

1997 - 2002     Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law and Political Sciences - lawyer

1994 - 1998     Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Arts - secondary school teacher of history

1990 - 1994     Eszterházy Károly Teacher Training College - teacher specialised in history and music

1994 - 1995     Journalism School - certified journalist

1995                Hungarian Radio - news editor and radio journalist

 

Employment

 

2010                Eszterházy Károly College, Faculty of Teacher Training and Knowledge Technology - head of department

2009                University of Debrecen, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Department of Constitutional Law - guest professor

2008                Corvinus University of Budapest, Post-graduate specialist training programme in equality and minority issues - mentor and guest professor

2007                Parliamentary Commissioner for National and Ethnic Minority Rights

2002 - 2010     Apor Vilmos Catholic College, Institute of Romology and Applied Social Sciences - head of institute, college professor

1998                Hungarian Academy of Sciences Ethnic and National Minority Research Institute - Head of research group on Romology

1999 - 2002     Miskolc University, Department of Sociology, professor

1996 - 1998     member of staff of the Roma Civil Rights Foundation

1988 - 1997     teacher at various educational institutions

 

Scholarships

 

2000 - 2002     Civic Education Project

1997 - 1999     Soros Foundation

1998 - 2002     European Roma Rights Centre

1997 - 1999     Roma Civil Rights Foundation, „Invisible College" for Roma students

 

Public and professional activities

 

2007 -              Member of the Equal Treatment Professional Advisory Board

2002- 2005      Member of the board of trustees of the Autonomy Foundation

1998- 2004      Member of the board of trustees of the Gandhi Public Foundation

 

Membership of professional organisations

 

Hungarian Sociological Society - member of the Presidential Board

Hungarian Academy of Science - member of the Public Body

Hungarian Association of Lawyers

Hungarian Society of Political Sciences

Hungarian Ethnographical Society

 

Awards

 

2006                Award for Minorities

2005                honoured by the National Gypsy Self-Government for excellence in research

 

Main areas of research using empirical data survey in the past years

 

  • Emergence of cultural rights of the minority communities'
  • The new paradigms of handling of ethnic data
  • Roma entrepreneurs in Hungary
  • Research on local Gypsy minority self-governments
  • The past and present of Gypsy musicians
  • The social history of the Hungarian Roma in the 20th century
  • Equal opportunities of Roma in Hungary. Self-governance, positive discrimination, and the role of education in improving the situation of the Roma - theoretical and practical models
  • The theoretical models and practice in Hungary of local Gypsy minority self-governments
  • The cultural autonomy of minorities

null Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary Visits the Hungarian-Romanian Border

Based on the decision of the EU member states, as of January 1, 2025, personal checks have been abolished at the internal land border crossings between Bulgaria and Romania, as well as at their common borders.


In light of the abolition of border control between Hungary and Romania, and to gather information on the implementation of related tasks, Dr. Ákos Kozma, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary, conducted visits to the border crossings along the Hungarian-Romanian border between January 15 and 22, 2025, accompanied by Dr. Domonkos Wildner, Director General for Police Complaints at the Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary. The Commissioner and his colleagues visited, among others, the border crossing points at Csanádpalota, Gyula, Csengersima, and Ártánd.


 

At the visited locations, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary and his colleagues held consultations with Brigadier General Dr. Zsolt Polyák, Police Commissioner of the Csongrád-Csanád County Police Headquarters; Brigadier General Ferenc Vörös, Police Commissioner of the Békés County Police Headquarters; Brigadier General József Farkas, Police Commissioner of the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Police Headquarters; Brigadier General Dr. József Gyurosovics, Police Commissioner of the Police of Hajdú-Bihar County Police Headquarters, as well as other senior officials from the respective county police headquarters.

During the visits, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary received information on the implementation of border policing tasks related to Romania's accession to the Schengen area, as well as on the traffic situation affecting the border section.

 

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