Fulbright Day Program
April 2 (Tuesday)
4:30 - 6:00 pm: Fulbright Day Reception at Honors College Forum
- Welcome Remarks by Associate Provost, Dr. Bill Stanley
- Introduction of Dr. Károly Jókay by Dr. John Barns
- Fulbright Celebration Remarks by Dr. Károly Jókay
- Introduction of Fulbright visiting scholars/students by Dr. Bill Stanley
- Recognition of the 2024-2025 Fulbright Recipients by Dr. Bill Stanley
- Remarks from the New Mexico Fulbright Association by Association President, Dr. Cleophas Muneri
- With Dr. Károly Jókay, Executive Director of Fulbright Commission in Hungary
Dr. Károly Jókay has been full-time Executive Director of the Fulbright Commission in Hungary since November 1, 2012. An expert in municipal finance and bankruptcy, Jókay taught municipal finance, public budgeting and public management in the Department of Public Policy at Central European University in Budapest between 2005 and 2017. He currently teaches Public Policy and Budgeting courses at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest. Jókay has extensive consulting experience in Central and Eastern European countries, including Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia, completing projects on municipal bond disclosure standards, as well as municipal debt regulation. He was born in Chicago to Hungarian refugee parents, earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan (1984) and has an M.A. and Ph.D. (1990) in Political Science from the University of Illinois. Jókay moved to Hungary in 1994, is active in several civil society organizations, established a family foundation in 1993 to support the education of mostly first generation, rural children in the High School of the Reformed Church in Pápa (est. 1531).
