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Dusan Vujovic



Country:

United States

WAAS Designation:

Fellow

Primary Position & Institution:

Chairman, Research (Scientific) Council, NALED (National Alliance for Local Economic Development), Belgrade

Short Bio:

Professor of Economics at FEFA (Faculty of Economics, Finance, and Administration), Belgrade, and World Bank consultant in the areas of fiscal and macroeconomic policy, public sector and governance reform, and R&D for innovation. Minister of Finance of the Republic of Serbia 2014 – 2018. Past career includes various positions at the World Bank including Country Manager for Ukraine, Co-Director of the Joint Vienna Comprehensive program for government officials from the transition economies, and Lead Economist in the World Bank and Independent Evaluation Group. Before joining the World Bank in 1979 and during the 1983-1992 period he was a professor at the Department of Economics, University of Belgrade; Director of the Macro-modeling project for the Federal Government of Former Yugoslavia, and visiting scholar and researcher at the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley, USA. During his 45 years long career authored and co-authored a large number of publications on macroeconomic policy, development, institutional reforms, and key transition issues published as papers in international and domestic journals, and independent chapters in books published by The World Bank, Oxford University Press, North-Holland, Edward Elgar, etc.