Imre Kondor is a retired professor of physics, honorary professor of finance at Corvinus University, Budapest, and professor at the Parmenides Foundation. Before retiring, he was a professor of physics from 1989 to 2011 at Eötvös University, Budapest; from 2002 to 2010 permanent fellow, 2002 to 2008 rector of Collegium Budapest – Institute of Advanced Study.

Imre obtained his MSc from Eötvös University in 1966, the CSc in 1984 and DSc in 1988 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research experience includes the theory of condensed Bose systems, critical phenomena, disordered systems and spin glasses, and, presently, the application of statistical physics methods to problems in economics and finance.