Lajos András Bokros (born 26 June 1954) is a Hungarian economist, who served as Minister of Finance from 1995 to 1996.
He is a full professor (Department of Public Policy) and former chief operating officer of the Central European University.
He is best known for the so-called "Bokros package"; a string of austerity measures implemented during his term as Finance Minister.
There, together with Stjn Claessens, Simeon Djankov, and Gerhard Pohl he worked on enterprise restructuring in Georgia, Moldova, and Romania.
[1] With MP András Csáky's quit, the Hungarian Democratic Forum's parliamentary group defunct according to the house rules in March 2009.
[2] He was the MDF's candidate for the position of Prime Minister of Hungary on the 2010 Hungarian parliamentary election.
[3] On the national election, MDF came to the fifth place and received only 2.67% of the votes, thus shut out of the legislature altogether for the first time since the transition to democracy, after twenty years.