Former director of McKinsey appointed President of Corvinus University

Anthony Radev, a former director of financial company McKinsey and Co. will be appointed president of Budapest’s Corvinus University, Zsolt Hernádi, the chairman of Corvinus’s Maecenas Foundation who also heads Hungarian oil and gas company MOL, said on Thursday.

Radev worked as a director of the eastern European financial institutions’ working group at McKinsey for 22 years, the university said in a statement. He worked in projects in financial institutions, industrial companies and the services sector, the statement added. He has also worked in education and held lectures at several business schools and universities of economy.

The presidential board comprising the university’s rector, chancellor, and people invited on a permanent or ad-hoc basis will assist the president in his work, the statement said.

According to the new founding charter, the rector, chancellor, and the new president will head the university, with the latter in charge of the university’s operations.