Radovan Jelašić

Infobox Officeholder | name =Radovan Jelašić
nationality =Serbian


imagesize =100px
caption = Radovan Jelašić
order =Governor of the National Bank of Serbia
term_start =March 1, 2004
term_end =
deputy = Ana Gligorijević and Mira Erić-Jović
predecessor =Kori Udovički
successor ="incumbent"
nominated by = National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
birth_date =birth date and age|1968|2|19
birth_place =Baja, Hungary
education =BEcon University of Belgrade, MBus University of Illinois
death_date =
death_place =
spouse =
profession =Economist|

Radovan Jelašić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радован Јелашић; born in 1968 in Baja, Hungary) is a Serbian economist. He currently holds the office of the Serbian National Bank's governor.

In 1992, he graduated from the University of Belgrade's 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 IMF, World Bank and EU 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.

Jelašić briefly accepted an engagement with the HVB banka in Belgrade.

On February 25, 2004, the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia appointed Radovan Jelašić Governor of the National Bank of Serbia. He began his term in office on March 1, 2004.

In the first part of 2005, Jelašić became a subject of controversy in regards to his claim that he bought his 180m² villa together with the surrounding 15.5ar of land in the elite Belgrade neighbourhood of Dedinje for only €380,000. The story was pursued throughout 2005 by the daily tabloid "Kurir", which quoted various experts who appraised the estate's worth to at least €1.5 million. [ [http://arhiva.kurir-info.co.yu/Arhiva/2005/jun/09/V-03-09062005.shtml "Afera Jelašića vila"] ]

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