The Hungarian Olympic Committee has officially established its Budapest 2032 Committee with the mandate to assess the feasibility and explore the possibility of an Olympic Games in the Hungarian capital following LA28.
“In 2021 we arrived to year in which the Hungarian Olympic Committee has to address the tasks preceding candidacy for and hosting the 2032 Olympic Games and has to set up a respective team, otherwise the Hungarian Olympic Committee would not do its job properly,” said HOC President Krisztián Kulcsár.
In order to tackle the issue appropriately the Hungarian Olympic Committee set up an eight-member committee comprising distinguished and acknowledged actors of the Hungarian economy.
The unanimously elected Members of the Budapest 2032 Committee include President Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy, former President of the Budapest Stock Exchange, Gabriella Balogh, Directors Board Member of the Portfolio Group, the leading economic site in Hungary, Gabriella Heiszler, Chief Executive Officer of SPAR Hungary, Csaba Lantos, Chair of the Directors Board of the MET Group, a Swiss-based energy company, Sándor Nyúl, Chair of the Supervisory Board of Gránit Bank, a Hungarian commercial banking institution, Gábor Orbán, Chief Executive Officer of Richter Gedeon, a leading pharmaceutical company in Hungary, Anett Pandurics, Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of Posta Biztosító, the subsidiary insurance company of Hungary Posta and József Váradi, Chief Executive Officer of Wizz Air, while Olympic Champion judoka and Communications Director of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant Antal Kovács will liaise on behalf of the Executive Board of the Hungarian Olympic Committee.
“The exclusive objective of the committee is to thoroughly examine the possibility for Budapest to submit its candidature for the right to host the 2032 Summer Olympic Games. The main task is to create a comprehensive feasibility and macroeconomic impact assessment, a complex task that is estimated to take one and a half years,” explained Budapest 2032 President Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy, great-great-grandson to the first President of the Hungarian Olympic Committee, Albert Berzeviczy.
“Members of the newly founded committee are accomplished captains of industry whose membership guarantees the professional and scrupulous conduct of this study,” added President Kulcsár.
(HOC, photo: Péter Szalmás/HOC)