Mr Béla Kardon PhD was born in Budapest on May 2, 1964, studied Physics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, received his MSc in 1989, dr. of Technology in 1995, PhD in 2003. 1989-1997 he worked as a Scientist at the Gödöllő University, 1997-2001 as Attaché for Science & Technology at the Hungarian Embassy in Bonn. In 2001 he joined the Hungarian Ministry of Education as Program Director for International Bi-lateral R&D Cooperation. In 2004 he took office as Head of Unit for Key Technologies, responsible for the National Strategic Reference Frame in the National Office for Research & Technology. In 2007 he became Senior Scientist and Program Manager at Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, in 2009 Senior Scientist and International Expert in the Institute for Applied Telecommunication Technologies of the Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research. 2008-2010 he was invited lecturer of the courses Innovation Management and Hungary and the European Union at the ELTE TTK. In 2010 he became Head of the Department for Science Policy in the new formed Ministry of National Resources. In this position he was responsible for the planning of the higher education development part of the European Structural & Investment Funds in Hungary. Since 2015 Dr Kardon is Chief Scientific Officer at the Regional Centre for Information & Scientific Development Ltd and invited lecturer of the course Higher education and science policy in diplomacy at Károli Gáspár University.