Hungarian bank expert appointed to KBC Group

Júlia Király, a former Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Hungary (NBH) will continue her career at KBC Group as member of the Board of Directors, the Belgian bank has announced. In the Board, she is going to replace Professor Dirk Heremans, KBC said in a statement.

Júlia Király was born in Budapest (Hungary) in 1957. She is a graduate of the Budapest University of Economics (1980), where she went on to gain a Doctorate (1984), and also holds a Ph.D in Economics from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Király started her career as a research economist at the Central Statistical Office (1980-1982), before taking up a similar post at the National Planning Office (1982-1989). In 1989, she became CEO and Dean (Banking strategy, Monetary economics, Risk management in financial institutions) of ITCB Consulting & Training (1989-2007). Ms Király then served as Deputy Governor responsible for Financial Stability at the MNB, the Central Bank of Hungary (2007-2013).  In April this year, she resigned from her Central Bank post in protest against the policy of the new Governor György Matolcsy that, she said, would lead to “less responsible decisions”.

She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Hungarian Credit Bank Ltd. (1995-1996), a member of the Advisory Board of the Supervisory Authority (1997-2000) and a member of the Board of Directors of K&H Bank (1999-2000). She was chairperson of the Postbank and Savings Bank Corporation (2002-2003) and has been a Professor of Finance at the Corvinus University of Budapest since 1993. On October 1, 2013, she was appointed Head of Department at the International Business School of Budapest.