Gábor Szőcs

Mr. Gábor Szőcs is Executive Director responsible for international relations at the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB), the Central Bank of Hungary. From April 2026 he is the delegated member of the central bank in the Economic Policy Committee and the National Council of the OECD.

Graduated from the University of Miskolc in 1996 and obtained degree at Faculty of Economics. He is fluent in English.

He has more than 25 years of banking experience. Started his career at the international financial advisory firm Arthur Andersen and continued as a tax advisor at KPMG. He spent more than 20 years with prestigious institutions in the domestic and international banking sector, first with the Raiffeisen Group, then with the Korea Development Bank, the Hungarian Banking Association and finally with the Hungarian Export-Import Bank. At this latter one, as Chief International Officer, he was mainly focusing on international affairs. His main responsibilities included overseeing EXIM's foreign representative offices, focusing on international business development and strengthening multilateral organisational relations. Between 2015 and 2023 he has been Hungary's contact person to the World Bank (Private Sector Liaison Officer). He was the member of the Management Committee of the Berne Union, the leading global association for the export credit and investment insurance industry for 2 years and also represented Hungary in the export credit working group of the EU and of the OECD for 5 years. Before joining the Central Bank of Hungary, he has served as Deputy State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, responsible for Macroeconomic and European Affairs. He was member both in the EU and the OECD Economic Policy Committees. Furthermore, he was the Chairman of the Hungarian National Contact Point of the OECD.