Peter is the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Hungary in Washington, DC where he manages the overall operations of the Hungarian Embassy, negotiates with US government entities, and analyses US foreign policy and US-Hungarian policy and strategy. His most recent assignments in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs include Deputy Director of the Department of the Americas and Deputy Director of the Department of Human Resources. From 2007 until 2011 he served at the Hungarian Embassy in London, United Kingdom where he was responsible for political, press, and public affairs. Peter entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary in 2004 and started his career in the Department for International and European Law. In 2005 he was seconded to the External Relations Directorate General of the European Commission in Brussels as a national expert. In 2006 he joined the cabinet of the State Secretary where he was working as a lawyer until his posting in London.
Peter is a graduate of the London School of Economics where he earned an MSc with merit in International Relations. He also holds a JD in Law and Political Sciences from Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest. He spent a year at the European Institute of the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, Germany specializing in European Law (2001-2002) and studied comparative law at the Université Robert Schuman in Strasbourg, France (2003). He speaks English, German, and Spanish.