Gábor Hargitai is a Hungarian psychologist and academic manager. Hargitai was the person in charge of reforming the stipend system within the 1969 non-conformist ELTE KISZ committee, which he did by focusing on social needs and backgrounds. He was also active in the Studium Generale, which was an unofficial grassroots initiative for helping poor students with learning difficulties, and in unofficial research on Roma in Hungary. Following a long interval working as a psychologist in Hungary’s giant transportation company, Hungarocamion, Hargitai returned to public service as an academic manager in the think-tank institutions of the Ministry of Culture and Education in 1979. He was keen on making links between scholarship and social use or policy making and on using social research for directly tackling social problems such as alcoholism and social deviances. In 2008, he initiated a reunion of former non-conformist activists, which was an important step in setting up the collection of the 1969 Budapest student movement.