László Andor

Who is László Andor?

László Andor is a Hungarian economist. He is Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion in the Barroso II administration of the European Commission. From 2005 until 2010 he was a Member of the Board of Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, representing the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia.

He studied economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest, and later became associate professor of economic policy at the same institution. He also studied at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and in 1993 earned a master's degree in development economics at the University of Manchester. Since 1993 he has been editor of a progressive Hungarian quarterly social science journal, Eszmélet. Since 2003 he has been a Member of the Board of the Economic Section of the Hungarian Socialist Party.