Recipient of the Hungarian Order of Merit, Middle Cross with Star, and the Deák Ferenc Prize, constitutional lawyer, political scientist, sociologist, university professor, candidate of political science, currently a member of the Prime Minister's Strategic Advisory Board. Between 1998 and 2002, Prof. Dr. Stumpf István served as Deputy Prime Minister, heading the Prime Minister's Office. In 2010, he was elected as a Constitutional Judge by the National Assembly, with his mandate lasting until 2019. Between 2021 and 2022, he served as Government Commissioner responsible for coordinating university model changes. In 1982, he founded and directed the Social Science College, now known as the Bibó István College for Advanced Studies, until 1988. In 1991, he founded the Századvég Political School, leading it for two decades (1991-1998, 2002-2010). Since 1987, he has been a senior research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Political Science. As a university professor, he currently teaches at the Constitutional and Political Science Department of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at Széchenyi István University, and at the Doctoral School of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University. As an emeritus research professor, he participates in the work of the John Lukács Institute at the National University of Public Service. As an author and editor, he has contributed to numerous studies and independent volumes in the fields of political socialization, parties, electoral systems, constitutional systems and government policies, separation of powers, the rule of law, and constitutional identity.