Radovan Jelašić
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Radovan Jelašić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радован Јелашић; born in 1968 in Baja, Hungary) is Serbian economist. 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. He currently holds the office of the Governor of the National Bank of Serbia.
Jelašić 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 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 implementaton of banking sector restructuring, reform of the banking supervision process, negotiations with the IMF, World Bank and EU on programmes 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 Bank in Belgrade.
On February 25, 2004, the Serbian Parliament appointed Mr. Jelašić Governor of the National Bank of Serbia. He began his term in office on March 1, 2004.
