Mr. György MATOLCSY Dr.
(the Governor of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank)
Mr. György MATOLCSY Dr. is the Governor of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (The Central Bank of Hungary) since 4 March 2013. He graduated at Karl Marx University of Economics in 1977, and obtained his Doctorate degree in 1984. His dissertation topic was “Conversion of Hungarian state-owned companies into holdings, possibilities offered by the new corporate organisation concept”.
From 1978 he worked at the Department of Industry at the Ministry of Finance, from 1987 in the Financial Research Institute and in the Financial Research Plc. (Pénzügykutató Rt.) as a theoretical researcher and advisor in the field of capital markets. In 1990 he worked for the Prime Minister’s Office as personal economic advisor to Prime Minister József Antall. After 3 years membership of the Board of Governors in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), he was director of the Privatisation Research Institute, and of its successor organisation, the Institute for Growth. Between 2000 and 2002 he was minister of economic affairs, and between 2010 and 2013 minister for national economy. In 2013 he was appointed Governor of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank for a 6-year term.
