Chikán Attila
Member of the Supervisory Board
Economics
MOL Group
Hungary
Biography
Dr. Attila Chikán is a Member of the Supervisory Board at Molgroup since 30 April, 2004. Since 1968 Professor Chikán has worked for Corvinus University of Budapest and its legal predecessors. Between 1989 and 1998, he was Head of the Business Economics Department. In 1998 and 1999, he held the office of Minister of Economic Affairs in the Hungarian government. Between 2000 and 2002 he was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors of the Prime Minister. Between 2000 and 2003, he was Rector of Budapest University of Economic Sciences. Since then, Dr. Chikán has been a Director of the Competitiveness Research Centre of the University. He is a Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering. He is Honorary Doctor of Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland) and Babes-Bolyai University (Romania). He holds several positions in Hungarian and international professional organizations and membership in Editorial Boards of international journals. He is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Richter Gedeon Plc.
Research Interest
Economics, business management
