József Ángyán

József Ángyán
Member of the National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 May 2006
Personal details
Born	(1952-09-20) 20 September 1952 Nagyatád, Hungary
Political party	Independent (supported by Fidesz)
Profession	agricultural engineer, professor, politician

The native form of this personal name is Ángyán József. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

József Ángyán (born September 20, 1952) is a Hungarian agriculture engineer, professor and politician who served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Rural Development from June 2, 2010 to January 24, 2012. He is a member of the National Assembly (MP) since 2006.

Biography

He was born in Nagyatád on 20 September 1952. He finished his secondary school in Siófok, in 1971. He graduated as an agricultural engineer in the Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences in 1977 and he obtained doctor of sciences in 1979 and gained a specialized agricultural research engineer degree in 1980. He obtained his candidature degree in the field of agricultural science in 1993 and habilitated in the field of environment science in 1998. He speaks German and Russian in an intermediate level and English in elementary level.

His career tied to the Agricultural University of Gödöllő and later to the legal successor of this uviversity. He was pointed to be a professor of the university in 1999. From 1991 till 1996 he was working as a founder deputy director and from 1996 as a director of the Institute for Environment and Land Farming. During this period the community of the unoversity was able to establish 10 new university departments. He get the same institute director position for additionla 5 years in 2006. He was the first who initiated and founded in cooperation with his colleauges the new curse of agricultural engineer of environment management in 1990. The curse began based on his tematic in 1992 and he is still the head of this program. He is also one of the founders of the Phd programme of the Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences in the field of environmental science and also head of environment management science field int he University. His activity in research and development is connected to agricultural, environmen management, country developing and environmental protection. He was elected MP of the Pest county regional list in 2006 elections. He was a member of the Committee on Agriculture until 2010.

He was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Rural Development on June 2, 2010. He resigned on January 24, 2012.

Selected publications

• Ángyán J. (szerk.) (1987): Agroökológiai hatások a kukoricatermesztésben. (Az agroökológiai körzetek és a területi fejlesztés) Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, Bp., 210 p.
• Ángyán J. - Menyhért, Z. (1988): Integrált, alkalmazkodó növénytermesztés (Ésszerû környezetgazdálkodás), Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, Bp., 163 p.
• Ángyán J. - Kiss J. - Menyhért Z. - Szalai T. - Podmaniczky L. (1994): Alternative agricultural strategies and their feasibility in relation to the Hungarian conditions. In: Van Lier, H. N. - Jaarsma, C. F. - Jurgens, C. R. - Debuck, A. J. (edit): Sustainable land use planning, Elsevier Science B. V., Amsterdam - London - New York - Tokyo, 360 p., 69-78. p.
• Ángyán J. (1995): Sustainability as a Possible Basic Concept of Agricultural Transition in Hungary. Hungarian Agricultural Research, Budapest, Vol. 4, No. 4, 9-15.p.
• Ángyán J. – Menyhért Z. (szerk.) (1997): Alkalmazkodó növénytermesztés, ésszerû környezetgazdálkodás, Mezõgazdasági Szaktudás Kiadó, Bp., 414 p.
• Ángyán J. (1999): Nachhaltigkeit – Strategie für die ungarische Landwirtschaft (In: Scheiber E. – Larndorfer G. (Red.): Zukunft der Nachhaltigkeit, Ökosoziales Forum Österreich, Wien, 176 p.), 104-107. p.
• Ángyán J. (2001): Az európai agrármodell, a magyar útkeresés és a környezetgazdálkodás, Agroinform Kiadóház, Budapest, 308 p.
• Ángyán J. – Tardy J. – Vajnáné Madarassy A. (szerk.) (2003): Védett és érzékeny természeti területek mezõgazdálkodásának alapjai, Mezõgazda Kiadó, Budapest, 625 p.
• Ángyán J. – Balázs K. – Podmaniczky L. – Skutai J. (2003): Integrated land use zonation system in Hungary as a terrriorial base for agri-environmental programs (In: Helming K. – Wiggering H. (ed.): Sustainable development of multifunktional landscapes, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 286 p.), 125-141. p.
• Ángyán J. – Menyhért Z. (szerk.) (2004): Alkalmazkodó növénytermesztés, környezet- és tájgazdálkodás; Szaktudás Kiadóház, Budapest, 560 p.

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