About

Judit Pettkó-Szandtner has worked in Hungary’s banking sector for more than twenty years and currently leads the Hungarian legal department of UniCredit Bank as chief legal counsel. She initially joined the company as head of legal, compliance and corporate affairs but following an internal restructure and having excelled in that role, Pettkó-Szandtner assumed her current position in January 2016. Early on in her career Pettkó-Szandtner gained experience at OTP Bank, Novartis in Switzerland and the Austrian law firm Eiselsberg Natlacen Walderdorf Cancola in Budapest. An individual with a multitude of talents, besides her daily job Pettkó-Szandtner acts as a judge of the Permanent Court of Arbitration of the Money and Capital Markets, she is an employee delegate to the Supervisory Board of UniCredit Bank Hungary and chairs the supervisory board of Arany Pénzügyi Lízing. Amongst her many achievements, Pettkó-Szandtner is also a co-author of the commentary to the Hungarian Act on Investment Service Providers published in 2016. Describing her qualities, one source says, ‘[Pettkó-Szandtner] is a person of common sense, brushing away irrelevant thoughts and getting to the core of what matters, relying primary on her own resources and abilities’.