 From 1984 to 1989 he worked for the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party in the foreign relations department with Gyula Horn and László Kovács, both architects of the changes in Eastern Europe in 1989.In 2014, Simonyi, along with Nancy Brinker of the Susan G. Komen Foundation and Ambassador David Huebner, the openly gay U.S.Ambassador to New Zealand, started "Ambassadors for Equality," an initiative to support LGBT rights around the world.