CEE architects of transition: András Simor

András Simor became chief executive of Creditanstalt Securities in Budapest in 1989. He was chairman of CA-IB from 1997 to 1998 and head of Deloitte Hungary from 2003 until being appointed governor of the Hungarian central bank in 2007. Since October 2014, he has served as CFO at the EBRD. He will retire from the bank in May this year.

Andy Lane

Andy Lane

THE ARCHITECTS

Architects of transition Viktor Gerashchenko Leszek Balcerowicz Herbert Stepic Petr Aven Grigory Marchenko Andreas Treichl Ivan Miklos Karine Hirn Ilhami Koç

In the early 1990s Budapest was a good place to be for an ambitious investment banker.