András Balatoni

András Balatoni was graduated at the University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics. He participated in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program between 2021 and 2023. András started his professional carrier at the ECOSTAT Governmental Institute for Strategic Research as an analyst in 2007. Thereafter he joined Századvég Economic Research Ltd. in 2010 as a senior analyst, in June 2011 he became research director. He worked as a senior macroeconomic analyst at the ING Bank’s Hungary Branch between 2013 and 2016. Currently he is the director of the Directorate Economic forecast and analysis at the National Bank of Hungary, the member of the Board of directors at the Hungarian Mint Ltd., member of the presidium, Economic Policy and Economic Theory Section of the Hungarian Economic Association, the macroeconomic editor of the Hungarian Economic Review, member of the Advisory Board of the University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics, where he is also a Executive Fellow. His main research areas include cyclical patterns of the economies, the macroeconomics of convergence, innovation, and entrepreneurship.