Zita Gurmai

Zita Gurmai (born 1 June 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014.

[2] In this capacity, she was the parliament’s co-rapporteur (alongside Alain Lamassoure) on the rules governing the European Citizens' Initiative in 2010.

[4] From 2015 until 2018, Gurmai served as Special Adviser on Gender Policy in Development Cooperation to European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica.

In addition to her role in parliament, Gurmai has been serving as a member of the Hungarian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2018.

When the International Investment Bank announced its move to Hungary in 2019, Gurmai publicly called the bank “Putin’s Trojan horse.”[7] Gurmai was married to Mihály Gulyás.