Máté Hajba is the director of the Free Market Foundation, which advocates economic
freedom, civil rights and tolerance. He is also the author and co-author of several books. He
served as the Vice President of Civic Platform in Hungary, which runs anti-racist campaigns
and promotes democratic values. He is interested in the relationship between the state and
the individual and in the concept and history of liberty. He writes for international press on
issues such as intolerance in Hungary and international relations. To promote the concept of
individualism, liberty, tolerance and free market, he co-founded a youth organization named
Eötvös Club.