The Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) and the Fiscal Council will once again hold their traditional joint autumn conference on Monday, November 2, 2026, starting at 9:30 a.m. at the Lámfalussy Conference Centre of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB), located at 55 Krisztina körút, Budapest. The event will be streamed live on the HEA YouTube channel.
The conference will open with a keynote speech by Éva Hegedüs, President of the HEA and President and CEO of GRÁNIT Bank Nyrt. This will be followed by presentations by Gábor Horváth, President of the Hungarian Fiscal Council; Mojmír Hampl, President of the Czech Fiscal Council (Národní rozpočtová rada); Daniel Dăianu, President of the Romanian Fiscal Council (Consiliul Fiscal România); Ján Tóth, Chairman of the Slovak Council for Budget Responsibility (Rady pre rozpočtovú zodpovednosť); and Sławomir Dudek, President of the Polish Fiscal Council (Rada Fiskalna). The panel discussion of the five fiscal council presidents will be moderated by Gyula Pleschinger, Honorary Life President of the Hungarian Economic Association. The roundtable discussion of the fiscal council presidents will be held in English, with simultaneous interpretation provided at the venue.
As has become customary, the afternoon session of the conference will feature presentations of studies prepared for the Fiscal Council by leading researchers, senior analysts and experts from Hungary’s most renowned economic research institutions. The speakers are scheduled to include Kristóf Lehmann, Chief Economist of the State Audit Office of Hungary; Viktor Várpalotai, Managing Director of the MNB and President of the HEA Competitiveness Section; Tamás Isépy, Head of the Macroeconomic Business Unit at Századvég Gazdaságkutató Zrt.; Pál Belyó, Managing Director of ECO-VISTA Kft.; Éva Palócz, CEO of Kopint-Tárki Zrt. and Vice President of the HEA; Ilona Cserháti, Associate Professor at the Smarter Work for a Better Life Research Centre of Corvinus University of Budapest; Réka Doma, financial markets analyst at Innovatív Közgazdasági Megoldások/OG Research; Dániel Molnár, Senior Analyst at the Centre for Economic Analysis of MGFÜ; Magdolna Csath, University Professor and President of the HEA Innovation Section; Péter Halmai, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and President of the HEA Economic Policy and Economic Theory Section; and László Molnár, Senior Research Fellow at GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. The afternoon session will be chaired by Gábor Horváth, President of the Fiscal Council.
The conference will be streamed live on the HEA YouTube channel. The morning roundtable can be followed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1ifZoS0mw8, while the afternoon presentations will be available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV73SpkyCXw.
In-person attendance at the conference is strictly subject to prior registration. Those interested in attending are kindly requested to indicate their intention to participate by completing the form available at https://forms.gle/YYWV9Yrb8CFrD9RW7 no later than midnight on Monday, October 26.