TAMÁS LAJOS SZALAY

strategic & creative consultant

TAMÁS LAJOS SZALAY

worked as a journalist for more than fifteen years, among others as parliamentary correspondent for the then leading Hungarian political daily Népszabadság. He was a member of the founding team of NOLTv, a pioneer in the production of video content on the online version of the referred daily, which won numerous awards. In addition to his bachelor’s degree in humanities, he holds degrees in Election Analysis and New Media Graphic Design, and is also a qualified graphologist.

He is an accomplished copywriter and an experienced communications, marketing and brand management professional, having completed short studies in the latter fields at the University of Arts in London and at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Tamás is the author of several investigative and documentary reportage books and has also published a political novel.

He constantly develops his skills in the field of visual communication, for example in typography and in creative graphic design; as a result, his design works have been selected for the third time for display on the billboards of the outdoors ARC-exhibition in Budapest.

Several of his design-works have won awards: the visual identity and logo he designed for the company BudaPanda, for instance, was among the awarded works of The Best Brand Award in 2024. For ten years, he has worked as chief of cabinet and political adviser for MEP István Ujhelyi in Brussels.

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