György Hajnal is a Professor hab. at Corvinus University, Budapest, where he is the Head of the Economics and Public Policy Department at the Faculty of Economics. He received his PhD in economics in 2005. Since 2011, he has been working as a Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Political Science. His research interest lies in governance, public policy and administration, about which he published several articles and book chapters.