XpatLoop Interview: Dániel Jávor, Spokesperson, BMW Group Hungary

  • 24 Apr 2013 12:00 PM
XpatLoop Interview: Dániel Jávor, Spokesperson, BMW Group Hungary
Dániel Jávor (33) has graduated at Pázmány Péter Catholic University after studying English, Communication and Sociology. Already during his final years he started to work at the agency Café PR to handle the communication of brands and projects like BMW, MINI, Rover and the government’s campaign for the successful EU referendum.



He was also responsible for PR in the communications team of the movie Kontroll. The campaign of the movie directed by Nimród Antal was awarded with the Platinum EFFIE for the most succesful campaign in 2003.

In 2007 he was invited to join BMW Group Hungary as its Corporate Communications Manager and Spokesperson.


1. Where did you grow up?
In the very downtown of Budapest. I used to bike with my small BMX at the age of 6-7 up and down Váci utca alone or with my fellow brandmates. Since then I have only changed one letter in the vehicle I am using and promoting. X turned to W. But I live in the downtown again.

2. If you could be an expat anywhere in the world, where would you choose?
I would not hesitate at all to move to Berlin any time. But some other cities starting with letter B I could imagine as well, like Boston, Barcelona or even Bécs that is Vienna.

3. What would you miss most if you moved away from Hungary?
My family and friends. And again the places and things starting with B: Budapest, Balaton, borok (wines) and those fantastic desserts made in oven pans: Aranygaluska, Máglyarakás, Vargabéles...

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
I regularly answer this question to my foreign friends or colleagues. And I tend to answer that they should visit one of the baths, the ruin pub district, Kádár étkezde, Café Gerlóczy, Borkonyha, the Serbian church at Veres Pálné utca, Dunakorzó, the Synagoge, Mai Manó house and Gresham Palace. They should also eat a Lángos at one of the smaller markets, run around Margitsziget, use metro line 1 (Földalatti) and visit a concert at the Palace of Arts (from October this year at Zeneakadémia).”

5. What is your favourite food?
Harcsapaprikás túrós csuszával

6. What is your favourite sport / form of exercise?
Tennis and biking. So actually I do not know why I do run marathons...

7. What is your favourite place in Hungary?
The small and relaxing Surány. And the Balaton of course especially Földvár and the Káli basin.

8. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
I used to be an actor as a child so in the theatre I am sometimes feeling nostalgic. But in few years time we will rock the stage of Wembley with my RR group, no doubt. Moreover, my other major was sociology and it would be great to work on that field somehow.

9. What’s a job you would definitely never want?
Road...

10. Where did you spend your last vacation?
Istanbul. Fabulous it was.

11. Where do you hope to spend your next one?
Toscany. Fabolous it will be.

12. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
Well, let’s see. As a band I really liked Pearl Jam and Kispál és a Borz, of course. There were also some Európa Kiadó and Manu Chao years.Regarding films I still remember when I saw Pulp Fiction or The Big Lebowsky in the cinema. Also Blow-up or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas were among my favourites. Best hobbies as a teen? Girls, movies, parties and riding my mountain bike the day after.

13. Apart of temptation what can’t you resist?
Why should I?

14. Red wine or white?
White. Then red.

15. Book or movie?
Book. Then a movie.

16. Morning person or night person?
I am a night person. So I really don’t know how I manage to wake up 2-3 times a week to play tennis or run from 6 in the morning...

17. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
Racism, stereotypes, poverty and the way people tend to feel really sorry or depressed by their status in Hungary even if they could be much happier or at least do something against it.

18. Buda or Pest side?
Pest. Then Buda by foot across Lánchíd.

19. Which achievement in your life are you most pleased about?
Besides my band and my own marathons, it was such a pleasure to prepare journalists for completing the marathon by my self-invented project BMW Media Marathon

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
“What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” (Bob Dylan)

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