Piroska Nagy-Mohacsi

Piroska Nagy-Mohacsi is a multitalented professional skilled in academia, macroeconomics, and monetary policy operating internationally out of London, U.K., and Washington, D.C., USA. Throughout her career, she has established herself as a senior expert when it comes to creating global networks and leading regional and global research. 

For nearly six years, Piroska has been working with the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Firoz Lalji Institute. She served as Programme Director for the Institute of Global Affairs for nearly six years, as Interim Director for almost a year, and since June, she has been operating as a Visiting Professor for the School. Previously, she has worked with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Fitch Ratings, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the National Bank of Hungary. 

Piroska Nagy-Mohacsi is a skilled researcher whose work has been published multiple times. Her subjects of expertise and authorship include monetary policy, policy mix, financial resilience, and innovation – she is particularly interested in areas that include the regulation of digital currencies, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), emerging economies, and developing countries. Notably, Piroska is the author of The Meltdown of the Russian State, which is widely considered to be a major account of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent slow rebirth of Russia during the 1990s. She also co-created the Vienna Initiative, a public-private platform operating in the E.U. and emerging Europe and providing regulatory coordination and cross-border financial sector crisis management enterprise.

In her career, Piroska Nagy-Mohacsi is motivated by innovation; she thrives in an environment of creativity, where out-of-the-box thinking is used to solve big challenges in the best interest of key stakeholders. Piroska is an Academic Partner with the Macroeconomic Advisory Group (MAG) in New York who also offers student and diversity mentoring at the workplaces for LSE, EBRD, and IMF. Alongside her experience, she is also a member of the editorial board of the “Finance and Development” journal as well as the BIS Committee on Remittances, where she also co-authored the Committee’s report. 

Piroska Nagy-Mohacsi holds her Master of Science degree in Macroeconomics and Finance from Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. A few years later, she returned to academia when she enrolled at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she completed her postgraduate studies while majoring in Public Finance. Piroska has also been included as a panelist of speaker for a variety of events, including the “Planning for the Post-COVID world: central bank policies in emerging economies” event, which took place in October 2021. Most recently, she was one of the leaders to sign a letter to the G20 leaders regarding the inequitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine.

A polyglot, Piroska is a native Hungarian speaker who is fluent in English, Russian, and French and proficient in Spanish. 

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