Oversight bodies
ZOLTÁN NAGY – CHAIR
He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Marx Károly University of Economics (currently Corvinus University) in 1983. He also received a PhD in 1988. In 1990-91 he attended postgraduate training at Amsterdam University. Between 1983 and 1985, he worked at the Institute of Industrial Economics and between 1985 and 1990 as a researcher at the Institute of Economic Planning. After that until 1994, he worked as a Chief of Cabinet of the Ministry of Finance and then the State Secretary for Public Administration. Between 1994 and 1996, he served as Chief Executive Officer of the Garancia Insurance Company, and in 1997-98 he was the Director of the State Audit Office. Between September 1998 and November 2010served as the President of the Hungarian Competition Authority, in 2011-2012 he was Director of MÁV Compliance and Ethics. He is currently working in his own consulting firm.
ÁGNES URBÁN – BOARD MEMBER
She is an Associate Professor, Head of Department at the Department of Info communications at Corvinus University of Budapest. She graduated from the Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration in 1998 and gained her PhD from the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2006 with a summa cum laude qualification. Her main field of research is the change of business models, the transformation of media consumption habits, the development of the Hungarian media market and the market questions of media policy. She is a part of the research Institute for Media Policy Think Tank Research of the Measured Media Analysis. Ágnes Urbán has authored about 50 domestic and international publications on media and information communication topics, including books, book articles, periodicals and conference presentations in both Hungarian and English.
VIKTOR VADÁSZ – BOARD MEMBER
Former criminal judge, specialist in economic criminal law and in European human rights law. In 2003, he graduated from the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University of Budapest. He served as a judge at the Pest Central District Court, and from 2012, he was seconded to the National Office for the Judiciary (OBH). From 2015, he was a judge of the Budapest Metropolitan Court and also the head of the International Relations Department, later the acting head of the Criminal Chamber. From January 2018 till the end of 2021, he was a member and spokesperson of the National Judicial Council of Hungary (OBT). Following his resignation from the judicial office, he is acting as the deputy director and Director of Programmes at the Academy of European Law (ERA) based in Germany.
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SUPERVISORY BOARD
PÉTER ÁKOS BOD, CHAIR
Dr. Bod is professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He completed his diploma in economics in 1975, went into policy research until 1990, meanwhile he also served as a guest lecturer in Hungarian, American and Western European universities, worked as UNDP advisor in Ghana. After the democratic regime change, he became a member of parliament and later Minister of Industry and Trade. He served as president of the Hungarian National Bank between 1991 and 1994, then joined the Board of Directors at EBRD, London, between 1995 and 1997. After that he returned to academia. He is active in editorial boards of professional journals, a non-executive board director of Akadémia Publishing, and a vice president of the Hungarian Economic Association.
KRISZTINA ARATÓ
Krisztina Arató is a political scientist, a university professor, deputy director of the Institute of Political Science of ELTE AJK, currently president of the Hungarian Political Science Association. She studied at the the Eötvös Loránd University (History and Russian), the Victoria University of Machester (European Politics) and the Corvinus University of Budapest (International Relations Ph.D.). Her field of research is the European Union (history of European integration, analysis of the discourses and the myths of the European Union) and European and Hungarian civil society.
JÚLIA KIRÁLY
Julia Kiraly is an economist and habilitated professor of International Business School, Budapest. She joined the International Training Center for Bankers in 1988, in the year of its establishment, and served as its CEO between 1999 and 2007. She was the director of Postabank at the time of its successful privatization, in 2003. Between 2007 and 2013 she served as Deputy Governor responsible for financial stability at the Central Bank of Hungary. Since November 2013, she has been a board member of KBC Group Belgium. She is an honorary professor of ELTE and Corvinus University of Budapest. She is an external researcher at MTA KRTK, the Institute of World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her main areas of research are financial risk management, financial markets, financial stability and monetary policies.
