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BSSwmBBBHBM Biogvaphy János Fekete is a banker and economist. He was born in 1918 and graduated from the University of Economics in Budapest. He started his career in 1936 at the National Savings Bank in Szarvas, a small town in south-eastern Hungary. In 1948 he moved to Budapest and joined the National Bank of Hungary. He soon became Head of the Foreign Exchange Department of the Ministry of Fináncé, and later Section Chief for Economics and Fináncé at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He rejoined the National Bank of Hungary as Chief of the Foreign Exchange Department in 1953. He is now First Deputy President of the National Bank, responsible for all of its international affairs. He participated in the preparation of the economic reform of 1968 and has been working on its perfection ever since. Mr. Fekete is Chairman of the Hungárián International Bank Limited in London and Deputy Chairman of the Central-European International Bank Limited, the first international off-shore bank... Tovább

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BSSwmBBBHBM Biogvaphy János Fekete is a banker and economist. He was born in 1918 and graduated from the University of Economics in Budapest. He started his career in 1936 at the National Savings Bank in Szarvas, a small town in south-eastern Hungary. In 1948 he moved to Budapest and joined the National Bank of Hungary. He soon became Head of the Foreign Exchange Department of the Ministry of Fináncé, and later Section Chief for Economics and Fináncé at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He rejoined the National Bank of Hungary as Chief of the Foreign Exchange Department in 1953. He is now First Deputy President of the National Bank, responsible for all of its international affairs. He participated in the preparation of the economic reform of 1968 and has been working on its perfection ever since. Mr. Fekete is Chairman of the Hungárián International Bank Limited in London and Deputy Chairman of the Central-European International Bank Limited, the first international off-shore bank established in Budapest. He is a member of the Boards of the Central Wechsel- und Kreditbank A.G. Niederlassung Wien,Vienna,of the Hungárián Foreign Trade Bank Limited, Budapest, as well as of the two international banks of the CMEA, the International Bank for Economic Co-operation and the International Investment Bank in Moscow. Mr. Fekete has been an active member of the International Conference of Commercial Bank Economists since 1969, and of the Consultative Group on International Economic and Monetary Affairs - better known as the Group of Thirty - since its foundation. Mr. Fekete's writings are regularly published in Hungárián and international economic and financial periodicals. He often lectures at universities abroad (Uppsala University, Universitát Basel, etc.), and at home, and addresses various scientific institutions and organizations (American Fináncé Association, Council on Foreign Relations, Per Jacobsson Foundation, Financial Times-World Banking Conference, Federation of International Traders, Schweizerisches Institut für Auslandforschung, Stanford Research Institute, National Foreign Trade Convention, Centre des Recherches sur les Institutions Internationales, Donaueuropáisches Institut, etc.). János Fekete has received many Hungárián honours; among them he has been awarded the State Prize of the Hungárián People's Republic, the highest recognition that can be given to an economist in Hungary. Vissza