Csaba Varga (1946) sociologist, president of the Institute for Strategic Research.
The author is Dóra Udvari’s grandfather, Virág Varga, Borbála Varga and Dorottya Varga’s father, and Éva Csorba’s husband. He belongs to the Reformed Church. His life has been interconnected with three settlements: Balatonszabadi, Budapest and Nagykovácsi.
He graduated from the Department Sociology of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in the first half of the 1980’s and studied full time at the Institute for Executive Training for two years.

Major occupations: Young Artists’ Club, 1978-1980; Institute for Cultural Education, 1984-1988; Association of Hungarian Writers, 1988; Institute for Strategic Research, 1992-;

His activity in the field of sociology and theory: village and town research (1972-), area structure research (1986-) future research, future strategy (1976-), theory of conservativism (1992-1995), globalisation and localisation (1993-), theory of information society (1993-) knowledge society research, knowledge theory and vision of the age of unity (1995).

His major publications:
- The Wide World Beyond That with Pál Bánlaky (Magveto, Gyorsuló ido, 1997),
- Reform Castle with István Kamarás (Magveto, JAK Booklet, 1984),
- Report Off the Danube,, Selected Essays (Gondolat, 1988),
- Hungary Under the Eaves, Selected Sociographies (Magveto, 1989),
- Tradition and Strategy (Kapu Books, 1998),
- Attempts at Freedom (V-Kiadó,1999),
- Country Development in the Age of Information – The Chances of the Local World (Agroinform, 2000);
- The Very Last Chance, with Endre Kiss (Stratégiakutató Intézet, 2002);
In 1998, he launched and has been coediting two series of books: National Strategy Books until 2020 and Information Society Books. He is editor-in-chief of INCO, an on-line journal on the theory and practice of the age of information. He is the president of the editorial board of eVilág Journal.
From 2002-2003 on, he was gradually going to hand the management of the Institute for Strategic Research over to his colleagues, and commissions them with the management of the knowledge region and intelligent region projects as well. He wishes to dedicate himself entirely to research (and teaching, in part), because he embarked on a scientific project in 2000, which consumes all his time and energy.
The title of the research is The Theory of the Society of Unity, in which he is exploring and creating a synthesised hypothesis of scientific, sociological, religious and spiritual researches.