Bajnai Gordon

Biography

BAJNAI Gordon(49), economist. Currently Mr. Bajnai is working as Chairman of the Global Advisory Board of Campbell Lutyens. He also serves on the Investment Committee of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) since 01/08 2017. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Meridiam Infrastructure. Between 2014 and 2017 he worked as Group Chief Operating Officer/Directeur Général of Meridiam Infrastucture, the leading global investor and long-term asset manager of greenfield public infrastructure projects. During 2009 and 2010, Mr. Bajnai served as Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary, leading the crisis management government as a non-partisan technocrat. Prior to this, in 2006 he was appointed Government Commissioner in charge of the National Development Plan; then Minister of Local Government and later Minister of National Development and Economic Affairs. Between 2000 and 2006, he was CEO of the Wallis Group, a leading Hungarian diversified investment company Between 1995 and 2000 he was Managing Director and Deputy CEO of Creditanstalt Investment Bank Hungary. During his 16 years of private sector career before joining the government, he was member of the boards/supervisory boards of the following companies: Budapest Airport (Chairman); Zwack Unicum Plc; Danubius Radio (Daily Mail), Graboplast and Rába Plc ; and in 1999 he was a member of the Equinox Private Equity Fund’s Investment Commitee, in cooperation with Advent International. He graduated at the Budapest University of Economics in 1991 and received training at EBRD in project finance in 1993. Mr. Bajnai has been a senior advisor to the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS), and member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and a former adjunct professor at Columbia University SIPA and visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He has also been serving on the Advisory Board of Campbell Lutyens and –until September 2014 - Antin Infrastrucure Partners.

Research Interest

Economics, Business Planning, Management consulting, Management, Business strategy, International Relations.