Pál comes from a professional and academic background in cross-cultural negotiations, business development, policy planning and enforcement. He has over seventeen years of experience in legal and economic analyses, antitrust, and business consulting. He is also a former European Commission and European Parliament employee.

Pál is an internationally recognized speaker and a media-savvy communicator with a PhD in environmental and competition law and economics. He is active in academia, too, teaching at several universities across the globe.

Pál is fluent in Hungarian, English, Italian, French and Spanish and is conversational in German and Russian.