The next US ambassador in Hungary is of Hungarian ancestry

According to Hvg.hu, a Republican-leaning 78 years old businessman might arrive in Budapest who has not yet gotten deep into politics.

David Cornstein might be the new US ambassador in Budapest. There is not much information available on the ambassador. But if it is the same Cornstein (and there are not too many David Cornsteins in the American economic elite and around the Republican party), he explains in a portrait movie from 2013 that he has Russian ancestors on his father’s side and Hungarian on his mother’s.

As Bloomerg’s and New York Law School’s profiles show, Cornstein studied at Lafayette College and New York University and had gained his wealth from operating leased fine jewellery departments in major department stores in the US.

He served as Chairman Emeritus of Finlay Fine Jewelry Corp. since January 1999. In the past, he has served as a member on the New York State Council on State Productivity, Board Member of Battery Park, and as Vice Chairman of the Economic Development Corporation of New York City.