Radovan Jelašić Jelasity Radován Радован Јелашић |
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3rd Governor of the National Bank of Serbia | |
In office 25 February 2004 – 28 July 2010 |
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Deputy | Bojan Marković, Ana Gligorijević, Mira Erić-Jović and Diana Dragutinović |
Preceded by | Kori Udovički |
Succeeded by | Dejan Šoškić |
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Born |
Baja, Hungary |
19 February 1968
Nationality | Serbian, Hungarian |
Education | BEcon University of Belgrade, MBus University of Illinois |
Profession | Economist |
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Radovan Jelašić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радован Јелашић, Hungarian: Jelasity Radován; born 19 February 1968 in Baja, Hungary) is a Serbian economist who was the Governor of the National Bank of Serbia from 2004 to 2010.
Jelašić completed his secondary education at Serbian school 'Nikola Tesla' in Budapest. In 1992, Jelašić graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics and went on to obtain a Master's degree of Business in Finance at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Jelašić began his banking career with Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, where he worked for four years as a Regional Manager for Central and Eastern Europe. In 1999 he moved to McKinsey & Company 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. Jelašić held the position of Vice-Governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia/Serbia during which time he was in charge of development and implementation of banking sector restructuring, reform of the banking supervision process, negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and European Union on programs 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.