Management of the Bank

Governor Radovan Jelašić

RADOVAN JELAŠIC was born in 1968 in Baya, Hungary. In 1992 he graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Economics and went on to take a Master's degree in Business Finance at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.

Mr Jelasic began his banking career with the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, where he worked for four years as a Regional Manager for Central and Eastern Europe. In 1999 he moved to the McKinsey & Company Inc. in Frankfurt, working on banking projects in Germany, Poland and Bulgaria. The projects were related to credit financing, privatization, corporate takeovers, organizational restructuring, corporate financing and preparation of mortgage strategies.

From December 2000 until July 2003 Mr Jelasic held the position of  Vice-Governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia/Serbia during which time he was in charge of development and implementaton of banking sector restructuring, reform of the banking supervision process, negotiations with the IMF, World Bank and EU on programes related to the financial sector, as well as reorganization of the NBS IT Department, founding of the special department to help finance small and medium-size enterprises, and organization of technical help to the National Bank of Serbia.

He was appointed Governor of the National Bank of Serbia on 25 February 2004 by the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and began his term in office on 1 March 2004. Following enactment of the new Constitution and Constitutional Law, on 26 September 2007 he was appointed Governor of the National Bank of Serbia for a new term of five years.

Vice-Governor Bojan Marković

Bojan Markovic was born in 1972 in Belgrade.

He graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Economics in 1997.  Mr Markovic took M.Sc. in International Finance and Banking in 2000 from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, where he also completed his Ph.D. in Economics in 2005 with the thesis on The Credit Channels of the Monetary Transmission Mechanism.

Mr Markovic began his central banking career in 2000 in the Bank of England in London, working in the areas of monetary analysis and financial stability.  He was in charge of the official model for forecasting UK inflation, and represented the Bank of England in Eurosystem working groups.  On behalf of the Bank, he provided technical assistance courses in several developing countries including Serbia, Albania, Botswana, Colombia, Poland, Turkey, and others.

Since 2008, as an executive director in Goldman Sachs in London, he focused on developing investment strategies for the exchange rates, short and long-term interest rates, and equities, mainly in G10 countries.

Mr Markovic began his academic work in 1999 as a teaching assistant in Political Economy at the Belgrade Faculty of Law, and continued teaching Macroeconomics at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.  His areas of expertise include: macroeconomics, monetary policy, dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models, and interlinkages between financial stability and monetary policy.  He published papers in the areas of monetary policy and international economics.

Since October 2009 Bojan Markovic is the Vice Governor of the National Bank of Serbia.

Vice-Governor Ana Gligorijević

Ms Ana Gligorijevic was born in 1961 in Belgrade, Serbia. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. She later attended a specialized course 'Financial Analysis and Planning Technique' at the IMF Institute in Washington. She took her Master’s degree in Economics at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade after completion of a post-graduate course in economics and management, jointly organised with the leading business school – HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales), Paris, France.

She was appointed Vice Governor on March 24, 2004, after having held a responsible position as the Governor's Advisor. Joining the National Bank of Yugoslavia/Serbia as a trainee, since 1987 she has held numerous positions amongst which the most significant are: Special Advisor, Manager of the department in charge of coordination with the IMF and other financial institutions, Deputy General Manager of the FX and International Relations Department and later becoming General Manager of the International Relations Department.

As a representative of the National Bank of Serbia Ms Gligorijevic took part in all negotiations related to the regulation of membership status and financial cooperation with the international organizations and international financial institutions such as EU, WTO, IMF, World Bank Group, EBRD, EIB, etc. She was also a pro-active negotiator in the restructuring of financial liabilities towards commercial banks – members of the London Club and other external creditors as well.

Vice-Governor Mira Erić-Jović

Ms Mira Erić-Jović was born on August 22, 1954 in Jastrebarsko, Croatia. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Belgrade University in 1978. In the last 16,5 years, since September 1989, she has held senior and expert positions in the field of the supervision of banks and other financial organizations, first in the National Bank of Yugoslavia and then in the National Bank of Serbia. Before becoming Vice-Governor, she was general manager of the Insurance Supervision Department.

During her prolific career, she took part in the reform of the Serbian banking system in 2001, the organization of a new prudential regulation in the field of banking and insurance based on EU directives and international standards, the preparation of a new bank supervision function development plan, in activities related to the stabilization of the insurance sector, in lying down fundamentals of the supervision of insurance companies, and in the preparation of the strategic development plan of the insurance supervision sector for the period 2006-2009.

Engaged in numerous activities outside the National Bank, Ms Mira Erić-Jović was a member of the Accounting and Audit Commission of the Serbian Government, member of the Council of the Agency for Deposit Insurance, Rehabilitation, Bankruptcy and Liquidation of Banks since 2003, and member of the Management Board of this Agency since its foundation.