He is the president of the Budapest Olympic Movement civil association and co-chairman of the Hungarian Fencing Federation.
[5] The media projected Szalay-Berzeviczy became the front-runner candidate for the post of Minister of Economic Affairs in 2007; however he pulled out of the race, saying he would not take the job.
In 2005, with fifteen companies that play a decisive role in the Hungarian economy and a group of a hundred successful managing directors, media experts, well-known public figures and famous sportsmen, he founded the expressly non-political and non-profit civic organisation Budapest Olympics Movement (BOM).
[6] Szalay-Berzeviczy's goal - whose great-grandfather was the founder and the first president of the Hungarian Olympic Committee between 1895 and 1904 - is to join respected forces who are convinced that the Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games being staged in Hungary would be extremely beneficial to the development and international respect of both the country and the capital, as well as to the lives of the people living there.
Szalay-Berzeviczy's ancestors include Pál Szinyei Merse, Ágoston Trefort and László Szalay.