prof. Miklós Szócska, MBA, MD

Professor Miklós Szócska graduated at the Semmelweis University (SU) of Medicine in 1989. He holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1998), and a Ph.D. from the SU in the field of change management (2008). After his graduation at the SU he and his colleagues initiated the creation of the Health Services Management Training Centre where he was serving in various leadership positions, at present as its director. Between 2019-2025 he was Dean of the Faculty of Health and Public Administration at Semmelweis University. Between 2010-2014 Dr. Szócska served as the Minister of State for Health of the Hungarian Government. In 2016 he was nominated by the Hungarian Government for the DG position of the WHO. Since 2021 he has been serving as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Foundation for Health Care and Medical Education at Semmelweis University. Since 2022 he has also been Head of Data-Driven Health Division of National Laboratory for Health Security. For the 2024/25 and the 2025/26 academic years, he was appointed as a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.