Péter Medgyes (6 August 1945, Budapest) is a professor emeritus at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University.

[2] After teaching 15 years at secondary level, he received a position at the Department of English of the Eötvös Loránd University.

After the end of communism in Hungary, he established the Centre for English Teacher Training (CETT) at the ELTE.

In 1991, his book entitled 'When in Britain', co-written with Rob Nolasco, was published by Oxford University Press.

[6] He founded the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language-Hungary in 1990 and he has been the patron of the organisation for many years.