Since 2011, Tibor Tatay has been an associate professor in the Department of Economic Analyses at Széchenyi István University in Hungary. In 1988, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the Janus Pannonius University of Pécs with an economics degree. He was a lecturer at the University of Veszprém and later at the University of West Hungary. His teaching field is finance. His research interests include the functioning of financial institutions and the financial system. He is a member of the Doctoral Council of the Doctoral School of Business and Management Sciences at the Kaposvár Campus of MATE (the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences). He is Vice-Chairman of the Economics Committee of the Veszprém Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Public Finance Quarterly.