Ádám Imre Szűcs is a lawyer, diplomat, director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and a research fellow at the MCC School of International Relations. Born in Budapest in 1988, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of ELTE University in 2012, and studied international public and business law in Amsterdam on a scholarship for a semester during his undergraduate studies. After graduation, he worked briefly as a political analyst at the Századvég Foundation and since autumn 2012 she has been a staff member at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He started his career with European Union affairs, where he coordinated the professional preparation of European Council meetings at home, and later served as Deputy Chief of Staff to the State Secretary for Security Policy and Chief Policy Adviser to the Deputy Foreign Minister. For 3 years, he had headed the tied aid crediting unit of the ministry. Since 2019, he has been in charge of the Hungarian Diplomatic Academy and the ministry's foreign policy knowledge centre.Adam's MCC affiliation began in 2004 as a student in the High School Program, and later, during his undergraduate years, he studied at the MCC School of International Relations, in addition to his law studies. From 2016 to 2020, he was the Head of the School of International Relations at MCC, and since 2020 he has been working as a research fellow of the IR School and teacher of the High School Programme. He is a regular guest lecturer at several universities in Hungary.He met his wife as an MCC classmate and they have one son.
