The annual conference of our sister organisation south of Hungary’s border, the Association of Hungarian Economists in Vojvodina, was held on 18 March 2019 in the beautiful boardroom of the town hall of Subotica (Serbia). The organisation had been established in 2009 with active contribution by the Association of Hungarian Economists in Romania. This year’s [...]

The General Assembly of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) held its 125th anniversary celebration. During the event the highest honour of the HEA, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Economics was received by Miklós Pulai, former Secretary General of the Hungarian Banking Association. The preparations for this year’s Itinerant Conference of Economists were also discussed; the [...]

On Tuesday the General Assembly of the Budapest Stock Exchange elected Mihály Patai, Vice President of the HEA as the new Chairman of the BSE. Richárd Végh, President of the Responsible Corporate Governance Section of the HEA will retain his post as Chief Executive Officer of the BSE. On the occasion of his appointment Mihály [...]

A life course interview with Academic Béla Kádár, lifetime Honorary President of the HEA was conducted for the portrait series of Radio Kossuth ‘The Greats’ by Edit Szentgáli. During the interview Béla Kádár recalled his career and extremely eventful life course on the occasion of receiving the Széchenyi Prize on 15 March. The interview was [...]

Minister of Finance Mihály Varga appointed György Barcza, Chief Executive Officer of the Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK), President of the Public Finance Section of the HEA to serve as member of the Board of Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Accepting his appointment, György Barcza will take up his post on [...]