János L. Jelen
Born in 1955, March 29. Budapest
Citizenship: Hungarian
Family status: wife, Márta Lehotzky
Daughters: Dóra (21) & Fruzsi (19)
Home address: Hegedű street 9.
Budapest, Hungary, H-1027
Mobile: +3630 555-4211
E-mail (home): angkor@hu.inter.net
Professional Experience
August 2002 to May 2004
Ministry of Informatics &
Telecommunication
Budapest/Hungary
General Director, Assistant State Secretariat of Information Society
Programmes
July, 1998 to July 2002
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Budapest/Hungary
Department of Culture, Science and Information
March, 1996 to July 1998
Embassy of the Republic of Hungary
Hanoi/Vietnam
Ambassador, Accredited to Cambodia Laos
July, 1995 to August, 1996
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Budapest/Hungary
Member of the Cabinet of the State Secretary.
August, 1994 to July, 1995
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ/USA
Senior Executive Fellow. Fulbright Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson School
July, 1993 to July, 1994
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Budapest, Hungary
Senior Strategic Analyst. Department of Planning, Analysis
Information.
July, 1992 to July, 1993
United Nation Transitional Authority in
Cambodia
Siem Reap, Siem Reap/Cambodia
Vice-Governor. Deputy-Director of the Civil Administration.
May, 1988 to July, 1992
Permanent Mission of the Republic of
Hungary to the United Nations
Vienna/Austria
Alternate Permanent Representative. Deputy-Head of Mission.
November, 1984 to April, 1988
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Budapest/Hungary
Senior Desk Officer. In charge of multilateral disarmament
November, 1983 to February, 1984
Institute of East-West Security Studies
New York, NY/USA
Research Fellow. Studying Confidence Building Measures
February, 1983 to February, 1984
Institute of International Relations,
MFA
Budapest/Hungary
Research Fellow. East South-East Asian countries.
January, 1980 to January, 1983
Embassy of Hungary
Hanoi/Vietnam
Press Attaché. In charge of cultural, scientific and media
relations.
November, 1978 to September, 1979
Ministry of Defense
Budapest/Hungary
Translator, HQ of the Chief of Staff Military trade relations with
Indochina.
Education
1973 to 1978
Moscow State Institute of International
Relations
Moscow, USSR
B.A. M.A. in Political Science, specialized on Indochina SEA
1979
Budapest University of Economics
Budapest, Hungary
M.A. in International Economics
1984 to 1986
Budapest Education Centre
Budapest, Hungary
Post-Graduate Diploma in Aesthetics and Philosophy
1994 to 1995
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ/USA
Diploma, Executive Education Program
1998 to the 2001
Eötvös Loránd
Universitiy
Budapest, Hungary
Ph. D. Program in Archaeology (Thesis: Links between prehistoric and
historic civilizations in Angkor) Remote sensing, GIS & Cultural
Resource Management
Organization
1992 to 1996, 2001 to present
Royal Angkor Foundation
Budapest, Hungary
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Language skills
English, Russian, Vietnamese (read, write, speak fluently), French
(read and speak)
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