Szebeny appointed at PostEurop

PostEurop has appointed Botond Szebeny as the new secretary general for PostEurop. Dr. Botond comes from Magyar Posta, Hungary, in which he held the post of executive director of international business, with the overall responsibility for the international business and international relations of Magyar Posta since 2003.

In addition, he was also a member of the Executive Committee.

During this time, he has contributed to the renewing of the company’s international service portfolio, development of international sales activities, as well as to the significant increase of quality of international postal services of Magyar Posta recognised in 2008 by the most prestigious Certificate of Excellence of the industry.

In the last few years, Botond has lead various initiatives including the Universal Postal Union’s Financial Committee and participated directly in the preparation of the new EU postal directive as postal expert of EU’s European Economic & Social Committee.

Recently, Botond was elected to the Management Board of PostEurop with the responsibility of chairing the European Affairs Committee of the Association.

Botond was born in Brasov, Romania. He has a degree in Economics from Budapest University of Economics as well as a degree in Law from Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Faculty of Law.

Botond will take on his new position from 15 October onwards and will manage PostEurop with the support of the core team as well as their members.