The chairman of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Orbán began his career as a public servant. He joined various Orbán-linked institutions during the early 2010s: he worked as a researcher at Fidesz’s think tank, the Századvég Foundation, and taught at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, which intends to cultivate future Fidesz cadres. In 2015, the two institutions jointly founded the Migration Research Institute, of which Balázs became the director. After the 2018 elections, he was appointed to the Prime Minister’s office as a State Secretary. He became the Political Director for Orbán in August of 2021.
Orbán joined the parliament in the 2022 elections and since then has played an increasingly central role in the Orban administration, coordinating his political messaging abroad. The Hungarian Institute of Foreign Affairs was brought under Balázs’ influence in 2023.
