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Health economics: with a new secretary

Health economics: with a new secretary

The Hungarian Economic Association's  Health and Health Economics Section held its renewal meeting. The members voted for another three-year term of office for the current chair of the Section, Marta Péntek, professor at the Centre for Health Economics at the...

Election held in the Startup Section of HEA

Election held in the Startup Section of HEA

The members of the Hungarian Economic Association's Startup Section voted for the renewal of the current president, Tamás Turcsán, startup consultant and founder of POZI.io, for another three years. The voting members elected Péter Bagó, startup consultant and...

New President of the Economic Policy Section

New President of the Economic Policy Section

Péter Halmai, Széchenyi Prize-winning academician and professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and the National University of Public Service, has been elected as the new president of the Economic Policy and Theory Section of the Hungarian...

New HEA President in Tolna County

New HEA President in Tolna County

Tamás Mellár, economist, statistician, university professor, doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, former president of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, former president of the Economic Policy and Economic Theory Section of the Hungarian Economic...

Cooperation agreement signed in Szolnok

Cooperation agreement signed in Szolnok

The Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) and the National Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers (VOSZ) signed a cooperation agreement in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county. The aim of the cooperation between the two organisations at county level is to support the...

Prof. Mária Illés passed away

Prof. Mária Illés passed away

Mária Illés, professor emerita of the Institute of Business Administration of the University of Miskolc, former president of the Industrial Section of the Hungarian Economic Society, former member of our national board, passed away on 1 March, after a short and...

Elections at the Labour Section

Elections at the Labour Section

The Labour Section of the Hungarian Economic Association re-elected József Bagó, Senior Advisor to the Government of the Ministry of the Interior's Department of Public Employment Strategy and Coordination, editor and columnist of MunkaügyiSzemle.hu, as its President....

A visit to the British Ambassador

A visit to the British Ambassador

The UK Ambassador in Budapest, H. E. Paul Fox, hosted some members of the Presidium of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) - our President, Gyula Pleschinger; our Honorary President, Árpád Kovács; our Vice-Presidents, Éva Palócz and László Wolf; and our Board...

Agricultural section: the same president & new board

Agricultural section: the same president & new board

Attila Zöldréti, a lecturer at Milton Friedman University, NKE and MATE, and former President of the SAPARD Office, will serve as President of the Hungarian Economic Association's (HEA) Section for Agriculture and Food Industry for another three years. During the...

HEA’s Innovation Section was formed

HEA’s Innovation Section was formed

The Innovation Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) was established on Friday 3 February. The founding members - 23 in number - elected István Szabó, Deputy President of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, as the Section's...