At the General Assembly held at the Corvinus University of Budapest, the members elected Gyula Pleschinger, member of the Monetary Council of the Hungarian National Bank , as President of the HEA for another three-year term. Éva Hegedüs, PChairperson and CEO of GRÁNIT Bank Zrt., will continue to hold the position of Secretary General of the association, which is 129 years old this year and has more than 3,000 members.
The delegates of the 28 sections and 17 county organisations of the HEA elected new presidium members in the persons of Előd Takáts, university professor, Rector of the Corvinus University of Budapest, President of the Monetary Policy Section of the HEA, and Gabriella Soós, assistant professor at ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University), research fellow of BGE (Budapest Business School), secretary of the Heves County Organisation of the HEA and secretary of the Trade Section of the HEA. Dániel Palotai, IMF Executive Director, trustee of the Maecenas Universitatis Corvini Foundation, László Andor, former EU commissioner, associate professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest, secretary general of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies and Ákos Péter Bod, professor emeritus at the Corvinus University of Budapest, DSc of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , were elected Vice Presidents.
The report of the General Assembly is available on the HEA website.