AI Summit Budapest 2025

Vágujhelyi Ferenc

government commissioner responsible for optimizing the data assets of MÁK and NAV, president of NHIT and NAV

He graduated as a physics teacher in 1994 and as a programming mathematician in 1995 at ELTE.

He started his professional career as a financial system developer and information security expert. From 1999 to 2002, he was the Deputy Director General of the National Pension Insurance Directorate, and from 2003 to 2010, he was the President and CEO of Professzional Informatikai Zrt. Between 2010 and 2013, he was the general director of NAV, and then until 2015 its IT deputy president.

President of the National Communications and Information Technology Council since 2015, President of the Blockchain Coalition since 2018, President of the Communications and Information Technology Association since 2020; Since July 8, 2021, he has been the State Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and the President of the National Tax and Customs Office. From May 27, 2022, he is the government commissioner responsible for optimizing the data assets of the Hungarian State Treasury and the National Tax and Customs Office, and from 2022 he is the deputy president of the Hungarian Financial and Economic Inspectors Association.

He is the author of numerous scientific publications, and his main research area is electronic identification and authenticity, as well as the examination of the application possibilities of blockchain technology in public administration. He holds several patents related to information technology.