Dr. Andrea Magdolna Nagy

Andrea has more than twenty years of experience in the field of consumer protection law. She is aware the views of both the authorities and the Hungarian and multinational companies. She worked for the now defunct National Consumer Protection Authority and built up a consumer protection practice at an international Law firm before joining EY at May 2022.

She worked for the now defunct National Consumer Protection Authority (NCPA) from 2003 to 2011, where she first led the Services Oversight Department, and then was appointed to head the Regulatory and Legal Department, which included three subdepartments with 20 lawyers. She was responsible for the resolutions issued by the HCPA as an appellate-level authority and for the overall management of nationwide audits, inquiries and inspections carried out by county inspectorates. She also led the authority’s Unfair Commercial Practices Department and represented the NCPA in court.

In the summer of 2011, she left the NCPA and accepted an offer from a leading international law firm to create their consumer protection practice, and therefore in the last ten years she has assisted local and international companies as a lawyer in avoiding or mitigating fines, with services such as reviewing their advertising campaigns, general terms and conditions, buy & win contests, sweepstakes, guarantee and quality assurance documents, and commercial communication, in the recall of dangerous products and in investigations by consumer protection and competition authorities.

As part of her academic activities, she was the leader of, and taught courses in, the consumer protection officer training program of an accredited vocational training school and she was a lecturer in the German-language program of the Budapest Business School, where she taught courses in Fundamentals of Law, Consumer Protection Law, Fundamentals of the European Union and Consumer Behaviors for 15 years. She was also a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University and held seminars in English on consumer protection at the Post-Graduate Institute of Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Andrea is often invited to give presentations on consumer law in prestigious conferences and other forums in Hungarian, German and English.