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The most influential Hungarian women
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The April issue of the Hungarian Forbes magazine is out now, focusing on the country’s most influential women, reports divany.hu. On the cover, Nikolett Blaskó, CEO of ACG alongside Kriszta D. Tóth, founding member and editor in chief of WMN.HU, and Judit Virág, gallery owner can be seen. In the categories of business, public life, media and culture are the women listed. New and some well-known names from 2015 occur on the lists as well.
The list of women in business
Gabriella Balogh, who helps the work of the CEMP-owner Zoltán Spéder, and is the only female member of the Hungarian Football Federation presidency, reached the top again. She is followed by Zsuzsa Beke, director of the PR, governmental relations and communications of Richter. The third place went to Ilona Dávid, president and CEO of MÁV (Hungarian State Railways), who is also the president of GYSEV (Győr-Sopron-Ebenfurth Railways).
Zsófia Bánhegyi, director of group communications of Telekom is on the fifth place. She was not on the list last year. Neither was Judit Zolnay, who is the CEO of MetLife Insurance, and is ranked eighth this year, nor Kamilla Csomai, CEO of MAVIR ranked eleventh, or Gabriella Szentkuti, CEO of Microsoft Hungary placed twelve.
Public life
The first place has not changed since last year, as Anikó Lévai, wife of the PM received the highest rank on the list again. Réka Szemerkényi, Hungarian ambassador of Washington is the second, while Mónika Karas, president of the NMHH (National Media and Infocommunications Authority) is the third on the list. She is followed by Tünde Handó, who is the president of OBH (National Office for the Judiciary) and wife of József Szájer, member of the European Parliament.
Klára Dobrev, wife of the former PM, Ferenc Gyurcsány is ranked seventh. Ráhel Orbán, daughter of the current PM was also added to the list as a “plus one” because of her involvement in tourism, concerning especially the future of the industry, her reaching a place on the cathedra of the Budapest Corvinus University and her husband’s successful procurements, writes divany.hu.