Marital status: Married, two daughters, one grandson

Education: Karl Marx University of Economics, Budapest, 1968

From 1997 Senior executive officer in the Investor/Interag Group
From 2010 Managing Director Gundel Kft.
From 2000 Chairman of Preventiv Security Zrt.
From 2000 Chairman of ATI Sziget Industrial Park Kft.
From 1997 Chairman, from 2005 Chairman & CEO of ATI Depo Zrt.

1995-1997 Ambassaror to the United Kingdom
1991-1994 Ambassador to Greece
1990-1991 Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1989-1990 Head of Department, MFA
1985-1989 British Desk Officer, MFA
1980-1985 Junior Diplomat in Kuwait
1979-1980 Third Secretary, Arab Desk, MFA
1970-1979 Youth Movement. International Federation of Democratic Youth, Budapest
1968-1970 Shipping Agent, MASPED

Hobbies: Spending time with family, gardening, tennis

1. Where did you grow up?
Budapest, in the city, on Damjanich Street, quite close to Gundel.

2. What brings back fond memories of your childhood?
Football. I fell in love with it while playing in the City Park. Played on the Budapest Építők Team until the age of 18.

3. What would you miss most if you moved away from Hungary?
I’ve had to move three times: Kuwait, Greece and London.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
See as much as they can of the Hungarian countryside, since knowing Budapest is not enough.

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?
Goulash soup and all the sweets they have at Gundel, like the Gundel Pancake and Somlói Sponge Cake, which is the cake of 2010.

6. What is never missing from your kitchen?
Milk. I drink a lot of it. Also, fine sausages, cheese, fresh fruits and vegetables.

7. What is your favourite place in Hungary?
The first place is the Budapest Danube Bank, sitting on the Pest side on a nice summer evening and looking at the Castle. Second is Gundel.

8. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
First I wanted to be a football player, then a surgeon and since then I’ve always followed the approach of a surgeon: spot the problem and solve it, without harming the body.

9. What's a job you would definitely never want?
Foundry man. I hate fire.

10. Where did you spend your last vacation?
Japan, early 2010. I went when the cherry trees are in bloom, but it was a cold spring so no too many flowers could be seen.

11. Where do you hope to spend your next one?
Skiing somewhere with the Grandson.

12. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
Paul Anka, The Beatles and football as a hobby. In my childhood only Russian war films were shown. Interestingly, their machine guns never had to be refilled.

13. What can't you resist?
Temptation and competition. I really like competition.

14. Red wine or white?
Red and also Tokaj Aszú since it is so special.

15. Book or movie?
Tennis.

16. Morning person or night person?
Absolutely morning. I do not like inefficiency.

17. Buda side or Pest side?
Pest.

18. Which achievement in your life are you most pleased about?
When I became Deputy Secretary. It confirmed that effort and the risks you take are worth it and are rewarded.

19. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
Poverty.

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
First thing’s first. Mind your own business.