Gergely Böszörményi Nagy

Böszörményi-Nagy studied International relations at Corvinus University of Budapest. He pursued a Master of Business Administration at Central European University and participated at the Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship of Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is currently pursuing his Master of Science in urbanism at the London School of Economics.

From 2010 to 2012, Böszörményi-Nagy was head of EU communication for the Government of Hungary, leading the public outreach of Hungary's first Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

In 2012 Böszörményi-Nagy joined Design Terminal, the government agency responsible for design and innovation as strategic director, where he was subsequently promoted to general director in January, 2014. During his leadership, the company launched an extensive portfolio of early stage, non-equity incubation services for innovative enterprises, for which Design Terminal was awarded the European Enterprise Promotion Awards by the European Commission in 2014,[2] and was also named the "best startup accelerator in Hungary" two years later.[3][4][5] In 2015, UNESCO selected Budapest for its global Creative Cities network,[6] mostly in recognition of the services and projects of Design Terminal.[7] In 2016, Böszörményi-Nagy and his team was appointed to prepare the country's official startup strategy, the government's legislative package to stimulate the innovation ecosystem by incentives for entrepreneurial education, business incubation and angel investment.[8] Later in 2016, following an extensive restructuring in the Hungarian public administration, Design Terminal made a transition to the private sector, and expanded its operations to a regional scale while relying on public grants and business revenues.[9][10][11]

In June 2020, Böszörményi-Nagy was appointed as President of the Board of Trustees of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Hungary's major educational institution for the creative industries.[12]

In June, 2015 Böszörményi-Nagy founded Brain Bar, a global festival focused on the future.[13] The annual event revolves around a two-day concentration of interactive talks and debates on business, social, cultural, technological and political trends,[14] and attracts thousands of visitors per year with past speakers including PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Canadian psychologist Jordan B. Peterson,[15][16] historian Niall Ferguson, three Michelin star restaurateur Massimo Bottura, WPP plc founder Sir Martin Sorrell, EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager, best-selling futurist Kevin Kelly, Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde, technology critic Evgeny Morozov, geopolitical analyst George Friedman, sociologist Philip Zimbardo, astronaut and former International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield, Sea Shepherd captain Peter Hammarstedt, supermodel Maye Musk [17] and the world's first humanoid robot citizen, Sophia.[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] With WIRED as media partner,[28] Brain Bar's strategic partners include Vodafone, MOL, BMW, and Deloitte.[29] As part of its social impact policy, Brain Bar is free to attend for a group of outstanding teachers and students based on pre-selection. Brain Bar operates as a private enterprise co-owned by Böszörményi-Nagy and a group of business angels.[30][31]

Google, the Financial Times and the International Visegrad Fund named Böszörményi-Nagy among 'New Europe 100', the list of Central Europe's key figures in the digital economy.[32]

• Promoting intellectual capital from Central Europe, Visegrad Insight (2016).
• Hungry for Innovation: Budapest is a New Terminal for Startups, The Huffington Post (2013).