JÉG Talk: Bajnai Gordon at Corvinus

Date: 12 November 2026, 19:10—20:40 

Venue: Corvinus University of Budapest, Building C, Lecture Hall XI. 

Language: Hungarian 

Participation requires registration, and the Facebook event is available here. 

Tonight is about the view of Gordon Bajnai — how he sees Hungary, Europe, and the world from where he stands now. A Közgáz graduate, back at his alma mater, in front of the students of Corvinus. Gordon Bajnai in front of the next great generation. 

In 2009, at the very depths of the 2008 global financial crisis, Gordon Bajnai took the helm of the Republic of Hungary. A non-partisan economist, he accepted the office for a single year — for a single forint — for the duration of the crisis, and not a day more. 

In the decade and more since, the former Prime Minister has quietly built a career that commands respect on the world stage: he is the highest-ranking Hungarian corporate executive. He moves in the thick of global financial transactions — a defining face of a $15 trillion market. He is invited into international circles that only a handful of the world’s elite will ever enter.