László Andor

Dr. László Andor is a Member-Economic Section Board of Hungarian Socialist Party and a Senior Research Fellow at Hans Böckler Stiftung.
Dr. László Andor is a Member-Economic the Section Board of the Hungarian Socialist Party and a Senior Research Fellow at Hans Böckler Stiftung.
Since 1998, he has been a member of the trustees of the European Studies Foundation in Budapest.
He was EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion in the Barroso II Commission (2010-14).
From 2005 until 2010, he was a Member of the Board of Directors of the EBRD (London), representing the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, and Slovakia.
After stepping down from the Commission, he became head of the department of economic policy at Corvinus University (Budapest).
He has been involved in lecturing and research in other leading academic institutions as a Senior Fellow at Hertie School of Governance (Berlin) and as Visiting Professor at ULB (Brussels) and Sciences Po (Paris).
He also became a Policy Fellow at IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn), a Senior Fellow at EPC, a member of RAND Europe’s Council of Advisors, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Friends of Europe, and member of the Board of Directors of Notre Europe (Paris).
Between 1991 and 2005, he taught political science and economic policy in Budapest, and he was editor of the social science journal Eszmélet.
He was also a regular columnist for the weekly business magazine Figyelo and the daily Népszava.
He was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa at Sofia University of National and World Economy in May 2014 and the Legion of Honor by the French President in August 2014.