Gabor Rekettye

Gábor Rekettye is a professor emeritus at the Faculty of Business & Economics, Pécs University. He is the honorary professor of University of Szeged. He received his master’s degree at the Budapest University of Economics, and his PhD at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, both in economics. Dr. Rekettye is the author of several textbooks, which are taught at different Universities in Hungary. In addition, he has written over 300 publications in Hungary and abroad. His latest book about pricing published in London in 2018.

In his carrier he was working in the industry, in foreign trade and for five year he has served as commercial counsellor of Hungary in Tokyo, Japan. Between 1993 and 1996 he was the Dean of the Business School. For 16 years, between 1993 and 2009 he was heading the Marketing Department of the School. He has served as Chairman of the Hungary Japan Economic Club, as chairman of the Hungarian Association of Marketing Educators, as chairman of the Editorial Board of the Hungarian Journal of Marketing & Management.

In 2003 Gábor Rekettye received the highest scientific title in Hungary, ‘The Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’. In 2005 he was elected to Chairman of the Committee of Marketing Science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2013 he received the Hungarian Order of Merit Officer Cross from the President of Hungary.