Colonel János Pölöskei

Director, Transformation Command, Doctrine & Regulation Development Directorate Hungarian Defence Force

Col János Pölöskei is currently the Director of the Hungarian Defence Forces, Transformation Command, Doctrine and Regulation Development Directorate, where he is responsible for all doctrine development activities, terminology harmonisation and standardization tasks of HDF. He started his career in 1987 and graduated as an artillery officer from the military college in 1990. Before starting with doctrine development, he spent several years in tactical level positions from platoon to brigade level. After a successful career in tactical positions, he became an operations planner at operational and strategic level, where he participated in several NATO and national planning activities. After spending several years in CIS capability development and capability procurement, he was assigned as deputy director, later acting director of the HDF General Staff CIS (J6) directorate. Col Pölöskei went for missions to Kosovo in 2003 and 2017, and to Afghanistan in 2005 and 2006, spent three years at SHAPE from 2012 to 2015, where he got valuable experiences. He enjoys spinracing and running in his free time. He likes testing Linux distributions for home use as well. He is married with Andrea and is a proud father of his sons, Dávid and Kristóf.