Imre Szabó (born 1 April 1953)[1] is a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Environment and Water between 2008 and 2010.
Between 1983 and 1987, he was responsible for sports, camping, tourism, and environmental and nature conservation at the National Center of the Hungarian Pioneers' Association.
He served as head of department of the State Office of Youth and Sports (ÁISH) from 1 March to 27 November 1987.
[2] After the 2002 national election, he briefly served as president of the Committee of Social Organizations from May to November 2002, then a member until 2006.
[2] After the formation of minority government of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány, when the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) quit the coalition agreement, Szabó was appointed Minister of Environment and Water in May 2008.
His third wife is Krisztina Szabó (born 1979), who worked as a jurist beside the MSZP parliamentary group and was personal assistant of fellow Socialist politician József Tóbiás.
One of his sons, the fifteen-year-old Barnabás died in a car accident in Szentendre on 11 August 2008.