Ms. Ilona Dávid Earned is a President of the HUNGRAIL Hungarian Railway Association. She completed her diploma in economic sciences at the Budapest College of Finance and Accounting, and then a postgraduate economist degree at the Department of Management and Organisation of the Western Transdanubian University. She started her professional career at SPAR Retail Chain’s Hungarian company and was later appointed as the Director of Finance and Accounting of Dunaferr Danube Ironworks (steel producing factory). Then she worked as the Financial Director of Lukoil Hungary. From 2005 she was the Head of Accounting of the Hungarian State Railways Co. (MÁV). From 2010 she was working as the Chairman-CEO of Győr-Sopron-Ebenfurt Railways Co. (GYSEV). Since May 2012 she has been the Chairman-CEO of MÁV Co., but she retained her position at GYSEV as chairman. As recognition of her eminent performance in strengthening international railway cooperation in 2013 she was awarded with the Golden Chariot Award, which is one of the highest professional awards of the Russian Parliament and the Russian Ministry of Transport. In August 2014, she was awarded with the Knight of Cross from the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic recognising her outstanding and exemplary contribution to the reformation of Hungary’s railway traffic and ensuring its uninterrupted operations. In 2015 she received the Golden Signum Laudis. Since January 2016 she has been the President of Consistory of the University of Dunaújváros, and since July 2016 the President of the HUNGRAIL Hungarian Railway Association. She holds the following positions and memberships in various international organisations: member of the Executive Committee of the Community of European Railway Companies and Infrastructure Operators (CER), member of the European Management Board of the International Union of Railways (UIC), and Vice President of the Coordination Council of Trans-Siberian Transportation (CCTT) between 2013 and 2015.

Finance and Accounting