The HEA's International Economy Section elected Tamás Galambos, Managing Director of Kelso Capital Ltd., former Deputy Secretary General of HEA and former Chairman of the Youth Committee, as its President for another three-year term by unanimous vote. At the online election, which ended on Wednesday at noon, the voting members voted for another three-year term [...]

In recognition of her outstanding career based on her extensive professional experience in public administration and her sacrificial work in the field of regional development, Etele Baráth, former Minister of European Affairs, President of the Development Policy Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) and member of the HEA's Board, was awarded the Zoltán Magyary [...]

With the participation of 32 students from the Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, the HEA Heves County Youth Organisation was recently re-established. The organisation of the inaugural meeting and the re-establishment of the youth organisation was coordinated by Ádám Gyurkó, lecturer at the University's Institute of Economics and member of the HEA Heves County Organisation's Board. [...]

Gergely Baksay, Executive Director of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, responsible for economic and fiscal analysis and statistics, was elected President of the Competitiveness Section of the HEA for another three-year term. The voting members also supported the continuation of Katalin Juhász, analyst at the MNB, as Secretary of the Section. According to he members' decision, [...]

The Csongrád-Csanád County Organisation of the HEA elected Tamás Troján, the Auditor General of the State Audit Office of Hungary, as its President for another three-year term by unanimous vote. The voting members also unanimously confirmed Mónika Németh-Farle, tax inspector of the Csongrád-Csanád County Directorate of the National Tax and Customs Administration, as County Secretary. [...]

Ágoston Dudás, a student of ELTE Trefort Ágoston High School, won the 2024 Economics Olympiad on Wednesday at the Corvinus University of Budapest. In the national final of the international competition for secondary school students, 25 students from 14 schools of 8 towns competed in economics. The Economics Olympiad was first organised in the Czech [...]

Attila Borbély, professor emeritus of the University of Debrecen, member of the HOC, Chairman of the board of Magyar Telekom Nyrt., Vice President of the Hungarian Gymnastics Association, was re-elected President of the Sport Economics Section of the Hungarian Economic Association. During the online renewal, the members confirmed Zoltán Bács, university professor, chancellor of the [...]

István Szabó, the founding president of the Innovation Section of the Hungarian Economic Association, was recently appointed Deputy CEO for Strategy and Innovation of the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network. István Szabó holds a PhD in the study of the potential for cooperation between research infrastructures and companies in Hungary. He was Deputy President for Science [...]

Tamás Kozák, President of the Trade Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA), will replace György Vámos as Secretary General of the National Trade Association (NTA) from 23 March. Tamás Kozák, an economist and former civil servant in the state administration, has been involved in the preparation of several pieces of legislation affecting the commercial [...]

The Hungarian Economic Association, together with its organizing partners - the Czech INEV, the Corvinus University of Budapest, the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, the Money Museum, the Pénziránytű Foundation - will organize the 2023-24 academic year of the Economics Olimpiad. The competition will be open to Hungarian students from secondary schools from all over the country, [...]