Janos Tisovszky was appointed director of the United Nations Information Service in Vienna in March 2012. Mr. Tisovszky formerly served as deputy director of the United Nations Regional Information Centre in Brussels. He was acting director of the Information Centre in Islamabad in the summer of 2009, and before that he worked in the Peace and Security Section of the United Nations Department of Public Information in New York, where his primary duties focused on the organization's counter-terrorism efforts. From 2007 to 2008, he served as spokesman for the President of the sixty-second session of the General Assembly. Prior to joining the Department of Public Information in New York in 2005, he worked at the Vienna offices of the United Nations (UN). During his career with the United Nations, Mr. Tisovszky has lectured extensively on issues relating to the UN. He has also written studies on reform of the world body and on peacekeeping matters. Before joining the UN in 1990, Mr. Tisovszky worked as a journalist in both the print and broadcast media in his native Hungary. He earned degrees in international relations and economics from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences as well as a post-graduate diploma in journalism.