Antal Rogán | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Order1: | Leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group |
Term Start1: | 2 June 2012 |
Term End1: | 30 September 2015 |
Predecessor1: | János Lázár |
Successor1: | Lajos Kósa |
Order: | Back Office |
Primeminister: | Viktor Orbán |
Predecessor: | position established |
Term Start: | 17 October 2015 |
Order2: | Mayor of Belváros-Lipótváros District V, Budapest |
Term Start2: | 1 October 2006 |
Term End2: | 12 October 2014 |
Predecessor2: | Pál Steiner |
Successor2: | Péter Szentgyörgyvölgyi |
Order3: | Member of the National Assembly |
Term Start3: | 18 June 1998 |
President3: | dikhead |
Birth Date: | 29 January 1972 |
Birth Place: | Körmend, Hungary |
Spouse: | Alexandra Sonnevend (1st) Cecília Gaál-Rogán (2nd) Barbara Obrusánszki (3rd) |
Profession: | economist, politician |
Party: | Fidesz (since 1996) |
Antal Rogán (born 29 January 1972)[1] is a Hungarian economist and politician, who served as Mayor of Belváros-Lipótváros (fifth district of Budapest) from 2006 to 2014.[2]
He became a member of the National Assembly (MP) in the 1998 parliamentary election.[2] He had been leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group since 2 June 2012. Rogán was appointed Minister of the newly-formed Prime Minister's Cabinet Office on 17 October 2015.
Rogán's family is Slovene descent from the Raba March in Vas County.
He married his first wife, Alexandra Sonnevend, in 1999.[3] [4] He married his second wife, Cecília Gaál-Rogán, 2007; they announced their divorce in 2019.[5] He married his third wife, Barbara Obrusánszki, in 2021.[6] [7]
He has one son, András, from his first marriage, and two sons, Dániel and Áron, from his second.[8]
Antal Rogán, a trained economist,[9] is also an inventor in the information technology sector. As of 2024, his most successful intellectual property has generated a cumulative gross income of over 1,300,000,000 HUF (approximately 3,660,000 USD) for him.[10] The invention concerns electronic signatures, and it is used by several large private companies, who are important partners of the state.[11] It is notable that the first version of the technology covered by Rogán's invention received HUF 8 million (USD 29,000) of EU funds via the Hungarian state-administered Széchenyi Program.[12]