Curriculum Vitae

BENEDEK JÁVOR

Member of the European Parliament

Greens / European Free Alliance

Vice- chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety; Substitute member of the European Parliament’s Committe on Budgetary Control Substitute member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy; Substitute member of the delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentry Cooperation Committee Substitute the Delegation to the Euornest Parliamentary Assembly

                   

Political Activites

2014 –               Member of the European Parliament

2013 –  2014    Co-president of the Dialogue for Hungary Party

2012                 Leader of the LMP Parliamentary Group

2010 –              Member of the Hungarian National Assembly chair of the Sustainability Committe Hungarian World Heritage National Committee;

Parliamentary Inquiery Committee for the  Inspection of the Red Sludge Disaster at Kolontár Village;

Parliamentary Inquiery Committee for the Monitoring of the Financial Situtation of MÁV Ltd (Hungarian State Railways),

2010                  LMP candidate for the mayor of Budapest

2010                  2nd place on the national list, LMP

2009 –  2010    LMP – Politics Can Be Different, Member of theBoard

2009 –  2010    LMP – Politics Can Be Different spokesperson

2009                 LMP- Founding member

 

Other relevant memberships: Nuclear Transpareny Watch

 

Education

1998                Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

2005                Ph.D. in Zoology, ELTE University

1997                M.Sc. in Biology / Ecology, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary

1995-96          Human Ecology, ELTE University

1994-95          Cultural Anthropology, ELTE University

 

Professional Experience

2009 –  2014    Scientific advisor, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law

2003 –  2008    Assistant Professor, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law

2003-   2006    Hungarian University of Applied Arts

2001 –               ELTE Postgradual Legal Training Institute,

2001 – 2004    University of San Francisco – Péter Pázmány Catholic University Collaborative M.Sc. in Environmental Management Program

2000 –  2001    Ferenc Deák Postgradual Legal Training Institute

1998 –  2003    Teaching Assistant, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law

 

Other relevant experiences

2000 –  2003    Future Generations’ Ombudsman Network, secretary

2000 – 2008     Védegylet – Protect the Future! environmental NGO, member of the Organizing Committee, program coordinator, spokesperson 2003-2008

 

Important recent publications

Jávor, B.: “Vallási identitás és környezeti attitűdök Magyarországon” (Religious identities and environmental attitudes in Hungary), Vallástudományi Szemle, 2009/4, pp. 191-211

Jávor, B., Scheiring, G.: “Elméletet az ökopolitikának?” (Theory for ecopolitics?), in: Scheiring, G., Jávor, B. (ed.): Oikosz és Polisz –Zöld politikai filozófiai szöveggyűjtemény (Oikos and Polis – Reader in green political philosophy), L’Harmattan, Budapest, 2009. p. 15-31

Jávor, B.: “A speechless mass behind sustainability”, in: Zsolnai, L. – Boda, Zs. – Fekete, L. (szerk): Ethical Prospects: Society, Economy and Environment, Springer, 2009

Jávor B., Németh K.: „A reformok, megszorítások és a környezetvédelem hatósági rendszere”, (Reforms, restrictions and the authority system of the environment) Politikatudományi Szemle, 17 (3), 2008, pp. 35-60

Gosseries, A. – Jávor, B.: „Ein Ombudsmann für zukunftige Generationen”, Journal für Generationengerechtigkeit Vol.8. No.3. 3/2008, pp. 54-55

Jávor, B.: Representing Future Generations – a Question of Democracy for Europe, Mechanism of Economic Regulation, 2008/1, pp. 110-114

Jávor B., Németh K.: „Kisebb állam, nagyobb baj? – Beszámoló a zöldhatósági rendszer kialakításának értékeléséről” (Smaller state – a reform failed? – Report on the reforms of the environmental authorities), Társadalomkutatás, 25 (4), 2007, pp. 487-511

Jávor, B.: „A proposal on the representation of future generations in Hungary – The ombudsman bill of Protect the Future!”, in: Jávor B. – Rácz J. (szerk.): Do we owe them a future? – Jávor, B.: The opportunities of a representation for future generations in Europe, Védegylet, Budapest, 2006, pp. 114-130

Jávor, B.: „Institutional Protection of Succeeding Generations – Ombudsman for Future Generations in Hungary”, in: Tremmel J. Generational Justice Handbook, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2006

Jávor, B.: „Helyünk a teremtett világban. Katolicizmus és ökológia” (Our place in a created world. Catholicism and Ecology), Vigilia, 71., March 2006

Jávor B. – Várady T. – Toma G.: Mielőtt odaláncolod magad – Útmutató a városi zöldterületek és fák védelméhez, (Before you lock yourself there – A guide for the protection of urban trees and green areas), Védegylet, Budapest, 2006

Scheiring, G. – Jávor, B. (ed.): Oikosz és Polisz –Zöld politikai filozófiai szöveggyűjtemény (Oikos and Polis – Reader in green political philosophy), L’Harmattan, Budapest, 2009.

Lányi, A. – Jávor, B.(ed.): Környezet és etika (Environment and Ethics), L’Harmattan, Budapest, 2005

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