Members of the Board:

István Boros

Chairperson of the Board, economist. He worked at the Hungarian trade representation in Paris as a trade secretary, and then he became the deputy general manager of the country’s leading marketing communication company (Hungexpo). He was involved in the establishment and supervision of several Hungarian-foreign joint ventures /Publicis Hungary, Szonda-Ipsos, Shandwick PR/. He is the founding vice-president of the Hungarian-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He took part in starting and managing the operation of the Cegos Group, now he is the managing partner of Cegos Academy.

Anna Csongor

Teacher, director of the Foundation. After graduating from university, she spent ten years as a social worker taking care of Roma families in a suburban district of Budapest and then she worked as a sociologist researching the educational situation of Roma children for another ten years. She has been working for the Foundation since 1993.

Ferenc Karvalits

Member of the Board of Directors of the Land Credit and Mortgage Bank Ltd. since May 2005, and chairman of the Board since October 2005. After graduating at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences in 1988, he continued his studies at the Columbia University in the United States of America. From 1990 he was the head of the Liquidity and Risk Management Department at Magyar Hitelbank Rt. and became investment manager at Wallis International afterwards. From 1994 he worked for Magyar Hitelbank Rt. as managing director and was appointed to the head of the Bank Department at the National Bank of Hungary in 1996. In 1998 he was promoted to managing director and nominated to the Board of Directors of the National Bank. Between 2001 and 2002 he was deputy CEO of Wallis Rt. and CEO of CIB Central-European International Bank Ltd. afterwards until 2005. He has been lecturer of banking and finance at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences since 1996. He is member of the Board of Trustees at the Autonómia Foundation, chairman of the Supervisory Board of Rádió C Kht. and has been member of the Economic Advisory Board of the Prime Minister since 2004.

Júlia Szalai

Family sociology, childbearing, mobility options of women Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Sociology Research Institute. Academic head contributor, reader. Specialities: social history, socialpolitics, history of socialpolitics. Research fields: 1. Majority-minority relations and the "Roma-question". 2. "Old and new" poverty in East-Central-Europe. 3. The conversion of the system of socialpolitical institute.

Tünde Buzetzky

Civil engineer, Communication Analyst and NGO coordinator for The World Bank.

Péter Szuhay

Ethnographist, museologist and sociologist. Since 1980 he is working at Museum of Ethnography as Head Curator of Roma Collection. Research fields: history of peasants' farming, today's rural society feasts, history of Hungarian Roma's culture and processes of ethnic. More books and films about Roma link to his name.

Members of the Supervision Board:

• Zsuzsa Foltányi
• Ágnes Darvas