Minister of Defence Dr Csaba Hende appointed Colonel József Padányi DSc, Vice President of Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University as head of ZMNDU from March 25.

Colonel József Padányi DSc served as Chief Engineer, Chief of Staff, and as Deputy Commander of the SFOR Hungarian Engineer Contingent in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the nineties. The university's new head is a Doctor of Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Science and a Candidate of Sciences. His mandate runs until December 31, 2011.

(kormany.hu, HM Press office)