Board of Trustees

Professor Vizi an internationally recognized researcher in drug therapy and neuroscience. He has taught at Semmelweis University of Medicine and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, among others. He holds honorary doctorates from several foreign universities and is a member of several foreign academies and scientific societies. Professor Vizi was vice president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1996 and 2002, and then its president until 2008. From 2011 to 2024, he was the chairman of the board of trustees of the Friends of Hungary Foundation. He is currently the honorary chairman of the Scientific Dissemination Society, the chairman of the Hungarian Corvin Chain Board, and a member of the board of trustees of the Blue Planet Climate Protection Foundation, and from 2020, he is the honorary chairman of the Hungarian Atlantic Council. The author or co-author of more than 450 scientific articles and the author of several books, Professor Vizi is known for his significant scientific outreach activities.

Dr. Árpád Kovács began his career as a design engineer in 1971, obtained his technical doctorate in 1989 related to the organization of road investments, and then obtained a PhD in economics in 2001. From 1989 he gained an internship at the US Office of the Auditor General, then at the EU Commission in 1994.

Since 1990 he has been one of the specialized directors of the newly established State Audit Office, since 1997 he has been the president of the board. During his twelve-year term of office, he has worked in various leading positions at the highest-level international financial audit institution, INTOSAI, and also held the position of president of the world organization for three years. Since 2009, professor at the University of Szeged, honorary doctor of several universities. From 2012, President of the Fiscal Council until 2024. His work was recognized with the Commander's Cross with the Star of the Hungarian Order of Merit. From 2024, Chief Advisor to the President of the SAO. Between 2008 and 2017, President of the Hungarian Economic Society, and subsequently its perpetual honorary president.

Enikő Győri graduated from the Budapest University of Economics and Business Administration in International Relations and then obtained a doctorate. Between 1999 and 2003, she was the Ambassador of Hungary to Rome, and between 2014 and 2019, she was the Ambassador of Hungary to Madrid. In 2009, she was elected as a Member of the European Parliament. Between 2010 and 2014, Győri was the State Secretary for European Union Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 2011, she was the successful leader of the first Hungarian EU Presidency. In 2019, she will be a Member of the European Parliament again, and was re-elected in 2024. Enikő Győri is the coordinator of Fidesz's professional work in the European Parliament, and primarily handles economic and trade issues. She is a research fellow at the Department of European Studies at the National University of Public Service. President of the Hungarian Civic Cooperation Association. She is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Hungarian Institute of Foreign Affairs and the Board of Trustees of the Friends of Hungary Foundation. She is married and the mother of two children.

Károly Kocsis is the Director of the Institute of Geography of the HUN-REN Astronomy and Earth Science Research Center, head of the ethno-political geography and migration research group. The focus of his scientific (ethnic geographical, cartographic) research and science policy activities is the Hungarians of the Carpathian Basin and the Hungarian diaspora.

Kocsis is a professor since 2002, and later the Director of the Institute of Geography and Geoinformatics of the University of Miskolc. Member of the national policy apparatus of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, chairman of the Presidential Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Abroad since 2011. Editor-in-chief of the National Atlas of Hungary, chairman of the editorial board. Holder of the Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (2014), honorary member of numerous domestic and foreign scientific societies.

Founder of the Hungarian company of Ericsson in 1991, CEO until 2002, then president until 2008. President of the Hungarian section of the IEEE, the world organization of engineers, between 1998 and 2000. One of the founders and then president of the Hungarian-European Business Council (HEBC), member of the EU Research Advisory Board between 2004 and 2007. Member of the four-member Council of Wise Men invited by former the President of the Republic, László Sólyom. Member and president of the Economic Council of ELTE and then SOTE. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Budapest City Management Center from 2010 to October 2012. Advisor to the Rector of Semmelweis University between 2012 and 2015 and later Advisor to Óbuda University. Ministerial advisor from 2018 to 2022. Co-founder of the Széll Kálmán Foundation, then chairman of the board of trustees from 2005 to 2011. In 2018, he was awarded the Middle Cross with Star of the Hungarian Order of Merit.

János Martonyi taught at the Faculty of Political and Legal Sciences of ELTE since 1987. From 1990 to 1991 he was the administrative state secretary at the Ministry of International Economic Relations, and from December 1991 to June 1994, the administrative state secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 1994 to 1998, he was a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and Natolin. From 2000 to 2009, he was the head of the Department of Private International Law and International Economic Law at the University of Szeged and he is currently a professor emeritus.  Martonyi was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary between 1998-2002 and 2010-2014. He is the author of numerous books, studies and articles in the fields of international trade law, private international law, European integration and European law, Central European cooperation, global regulations and international relations, Hungarian national politics and geopolitics.