Born in Budapest in 1978, he graduated in 2004 from Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Economics, with a Masters degree in Finance and a Minor in Actuarial Science.
He began his professional career at the Magyar Nemzeti Bank in 2004 as an analyst in the Monetary Strategy Department of the Economics Directorate. Between 2007 and 2010 he served at the European Central Bank as an economist responsible for non-euro area EU member states. From November 2010, he headed the Macroeconomic Policy Department of the Ministry for National Economy and represented Hungary in the European Union’s Economic Policy Committee (EPC).
From 2013 to 2020, he was Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank. During this period, he was also a member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the European Central Bank and a Member of the Economic and Financial Committee (EFC) of the European Union.
In 2015, he was awarded the Sándor Popovics Prize, granted to economists under the age of 45 for outstanding professional achievements.
Between 2020 and 2025, he served in Washington, DC on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), representing the Central and Eastern European Constituency as Executive Director, and from November 2024 as Alternate Executive Director.
As from September 2025, he is Deputy Governor of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, in which capacity he is responsible for international relations.
He is an Honorary Associate Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest and Member of the Board of Trustees of Maecenas Universitatis Corvini Foundation. Since 2017, he is Vice President of the Hungarian Economic Association (MKT). Between 2016 and 2020, he served as Chairman of the Editorial Board of Financial and Economic Review, since 2020 he is Editor-in-Chief. Since 2019, he has also been a member of the Editorial Board of Economic Review.