As of January 1, 2018, Mr. Andras KOMAR is the Managing Director of the National Deposit Insurance Fund of Hungary (NDIF).

Andras Komar gained MA in Law at Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2004. In 2008 he received his BA in Economics from the Corvinus University of Budapest and became certified public accountant in 2011.

The new head of the NDIF started his professional career at the Financial Services Department at the Ministry of Finance in 2004. Between 2007 and 2013 he worked for the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority, mainly in the fields dealing with money and capital markets. In 2013, he became employee of the Central Bank of Hungary, where he also dealt with the issues of the National Deposit Insurance Fund, the Resolution Fund of Hungary, the Investor Protection Fund as well as the Settlement Fund and from 2016 he headed the Department of Resolution Planning and Reorganization.

András Kómár has been a member of the Board of Directors of NDIF since the beginning of 2017. He participated in the work of several working groups and committees of the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), representing the Central Bank of Hungary. He is currently a lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. He is currently PhD student at the Doctoral School of Pázmány Péter Catholic University. His field of research is the prevenion and management of crisis situations of financial institutions.

Andras Komar succeeded in this position of Andras Fekete-Gyor as Managing Director of the NDIF who has led the institution for 8 years since 2010 and has done a lot to increase NDIF’s international recognition.