Dr Áron Kincses, President of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office handed over this year’s Fényes Elek Prizes, 04/07/2025

Dr Áron Kincses, President of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO) handed over this year’s Fényes Elek Prizes in recognition of outstanding achievements in statistics and IT sciences, to

• Péter Benő Banai, Senior adviser of the Governor of the National Bank of Hungary, in recognition of his many decades long outstanding professional service in governmental financial statistics;
• Dr János Pénzes, associate professor of the University of Debrecen, Faculty of Nature Sciences and Technology, Earth Sciences Institute, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, in recognition for his regional analyses, area researches, as well as for his many years long remarkable support in methodological developments by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office;
• Ferenc Vágujhelyi, under-secretary at the Ministry for National Economy, responsible for the management of the National Tax and Customs Administration, in recognition of his innovative activity and outstanding work in regard to the statistical use of administrative data and in decreasing enterprises’ burden, as well as in supporting artificial intelligence-based solutions.

The prizes have been handed over on 4 July 2025, at a ceremony held in the Fényes Elek Room of the main building of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office.

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