György Matolcsy has been serving as the Governor of Magyar Nemzeti Bank, the central bank of Hungary, since 2013. Prior to this, he was the country’s Minister of National Eco­no­my from 2010 to 2013 and its Min­ister of Economic Affairs from 2000 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2010 he was a director of the Institute for Growth, and from 1995 to 2000 a director of the Privatisation Research Institute. As a member of the Board of Governors, he represented the Hungarian Government at the Euro­pean Bank for Reconstruction and Develop­ment between 1991 and 1993. In 1990 he served as a political state secretary and as the per­sonal economic advisor to Prime Minister József Antall. He began his career in the Ministry of Finance in 1978, subsequently joining the Financial Research Institute as a scientific researcher in  1985.

He graduated from Budapest’s Karl Marx University of Economics in 1977, obtaining a doctorate in 1984.

György Matolcsy is a frequent lecturer at top foreign and Hungarian universities. An honorary member of the Fudan Development Institute of Fudan University and of the International Advisory Board of Shanghai Forum, he is also an honorary doctor of the University of Debrecen and the University of Kaposvár, and an honorary professor of the John von Neumann University.

György Matolcsy is the author of several hundred articles, studies, and books. His most recent work, On the Edge of Times: The Rerun of the 1940s and the 1970s, was published in 2022.