AI Summit 2025 Budapest

Dr. Orsolya Ferencz

Ministerial Commissioner for Space Research, Member of Parliament
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Dr. Orsolya Ferencz was born in Budapest in 1970. She is the mother of four children. She is an electrical engineer and space researcher by training, but in recent years she has also entered politics. She graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1993 and continued her studies at the Institute of High Frequency Technology and Electronics in Karlsruhe. In 2000, she obtained her PhD from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Since 1996, she has been a senior research fellow at the Department of Geophysics and Space Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University. Between 2013 and 2015, he worked as a researcher at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Research Center for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics. In 2018, he was appointed Ministerial Commissioner for Space Research at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and is the implementer of the HUNOR – Hungarian Astronaut Program. From 2018 to 2024, he led the Hungarian delegation to the European Space Agency. In 2020, he was awarded the title of extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador. Since 2023, he has been a member of the National Assembly, founder of the National Assembly's Space Policy Working Group, and member of the Fidesz parliamentary group.