Árpád Prandler

Professional experience

• 1962–2014 Various positions at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 1963–1968 Deputy Representative, Permanent Mission of Hungary to the United Nations
• 1963–1970 Member of the Hungarian delegation to United Nations General Assembly
• 1968–1974 Secretary General, Hungarian Lawyers Association.
• 1974–1983 Director, International Law Department.
• 1974–1982 Head of Hungarian delegation to the Third United Nations Conference on Law of the Sea.
• 1975–1982 Member of the Hungarian delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
• 1976–2014 Ambassador.
• 1981–2014 Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
• 1983–1990 Director and Deputy to the Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs at the United Nations.
• 1990 Secretary-General of the Fourth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
• 1993–2014 Alternate Representative of Hungary to the Danube Commission.
• 1994–2004 Member of the Hungarian delegation to United Nations General Assembly.
• 1996–2014 Member of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission.
• 1992–1997 Senior Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 1997–2000 Deputy Director of the International Law Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 1998–2002 Member of Hungarian delegations to preparatory work on the Statute of the International Criminal Court.
• 1999–2002 Head of Hungarian delegation to the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court.
• 2001–2002 Director of the International Law Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 2002–2003 Chairman of the Sixth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly.
• 2003–2014 Senior Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 2003–2014 Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for revising the Belgrade Convention of 1948 regarding the regime of navigation of the Danube.
• 2006–2013 Ad litem judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Education

• 1952 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Faculty of Law – Doctor Juris, Bachelor of Law.
• 1957 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Faculty of History – Bachelor of History
• 1972 Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Candidate of Legal Sciences.
• 1952–2006 Budapest University, Faculty of Law - Senior Lecturer, History of Law - Professor of International Law.
• 1992–2006 Budapest University of Economics, later on Corvinus University - Department of International Relations - Honorary Professor.

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Publications

• Az ENSZ Biztonsági Tanácsa. Budapest: Közgazdasági és Jogi. 1974.
• Nemzetközi szervezetek és intézmények. ed. Prandler, Árpád. Budapest: Aula. 2001.
• Nemzetközi szervezetek és intézmények. ed. Prandler, Árpád. Second edition. Budapest: Aula. 2005.