Péter Ákos Bod | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Order1: | Governor of the Hungarian National Bank |
Term Start1: | 9 December 1991 |
Term End1: | 14 December 1994 |
Predecessor1: | György Surányi |
Successor1: | György Surányi |
Order2: | Minister of Industry and Trade |
Term Start2: | 23 May 1990 |
Term End2: | 9 December 1991 |
Primeminister2: | József Antall |
Predecessor2: | Ferenc Horváth (Industry) Tamás Beck (Trade) |
Successor2: | Iván Szabó |
Order4: | Member of the National Assembly |
Term Start4: | 2 May 1990 |
Term End4: | 9 December 1991 |
Birth Date: | 28 July 1951 |
Birth Place: | Szigetvár, Hungary |
Profession: | politician, economist |
Party: | MDF (1989–1996) MDNP (1996–2001) |
Spouse: | |
Children: | Zsófia Péter Márton |
Péter Ákos Bod (born 28 July 1951) is a Hungarian politician and economist, who served as Minister of Industry and Trade in the cabinet of József Antall from 1990 to 1991 then Governor of the Hungarian National Bank from 1991 to 1994, when he resigned under the pressure of the Socialist Gyula Horn cabinet. He was also a Member of Parliament for the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) from 1990 until his resignation in 1991.[1] In 1996, he joined the Hungarian Democratic People's Party (MDNP) and was elected to its leadership.[2] Before the second round of the 2006 parliamentary election, when MDF made it clear that they would not support Viktor Orbán's Fidesz, Orbán tried to get their support by declaring that he withdrew from Prime Minister candidacy, and sought a compromise candidate, Péter Ákos Bod. However MDF maintains its position and Fidesz lost the election by the ruling left-wing coalition parties.[3]
His ancestor was Péter Bod (1712–1769), a Transylvanian Calvinist pastor, historian, "the greatest Hungarian scientist in the late-Baroque decades."[4]
He married Katalin Monostori in 1974. Their daughter, Zsófia was born in 1977. They divorced in 2006. He remarried in 2008 to Léda Szőnyi with whom he has two sons, Péter (born in 2009) and Márton (born in 2011).[5]