Ambassador Tibor Toth

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Ambassador Tibor Tóth assumed the function of Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) on 1 August 2005. Mr Tóth is a Hungarian career diplomat with a long experience in the field of arms control and disarmament.<br /> Before taking up the position as Executive Secretary of the CTBTO Preparatory Commission, Mr Tóth served as Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva and the Conference on Disarmament since 2003, a position he had also held from 1990 to 1993. In the years from 2001 to 2003, he was Ambassador-at-Large for Non-proliferation and Critical Technologies with the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1997 to 2001, Mr Tóth was the Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna. Prior to that, he served as Ambassador-at-Large for Non-proliferation. From 1994 to 1996, Mr Tóth was the Hungarian Deputy State Secretary of Defense in charge of international affairs. Prior to that, he served as Permanent Representative of Hungary to the Preparatory Commission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague.<br /> Throughout his diplomatic career, Mr Tóth has been actively involved in a number of organizations, conferences and fora dealing with arms control and disarmament. He was an active participant in the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva during his two terms in Geneva as the Hungarian Permanent Representative. In the period from 1997 to 2001, Mr Tóth served as Governor on the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He participated in all follow-up conferences of the Biological Weapons Convention and in Review Conferences of the Non-Proliferation Treaty in the years 1980, 1985, 1990 and 2005. From 1982 to 1992, Mr Tóth took part in the negotiations of the Chemical Weapons Convention and played a crucial role in the Preparatory Commission for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from 1993 to 1997.<br /> Mr Tóth's involvement with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) dates back to 1982 and 1983, when he participated in the Conference on Disarmament Ad Hoc Committee on a CTBT. Since the establishment of the Preparatory Commission for the CTBT in November 1996 and through 2004, Mr Tóth was the Chairperson of Working Group A, the subsidiary body of the Commission responsible for budgetary and administrative matters. In this function, he has been leading efforts of States Signatories to build-up the budgetary, financial, administrative and legal infrastructure of the organization.<br /> Mr Tóth holds a degree from the University of International Relations in Moscow. He is married and has two daughters from a previous marriage.