Diana Dragutinović

Dr. Diana Dragutinović (Serbian: Диана Драгутиновић) (born in Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia on May 6, 1958) is a Serbian politician, and former Minister of Finance in the Government of Serbia.

Dragutinović graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics where she also received an MSc and a PhD and still lectures. From 2001 to 2002, she was special advisor at the Ministry of Finance and Economy, as well as a special advisor at the International Monetary Fund (2002–2004).

From September 1, 2004 she was the Vice Governor of the National Bank of Serbia to Radovan Jelašić, in charge of coordination and management of research and statistics, monetary policy and payment systems.

Her main areas of research are macroeconomics, econometric modelling, financial programming, long-term economic growth theory, convergence analysis, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy, poverty and social policy. Dragutinović was elected to her current seat of Minister for Finance on July 7, 2008. During the reconstruction of Cvetkovic Government on March 14, 2011 she was dismissed from the position of Minister for Finance. After that, she returned to the position of the Vice Governor of the National Bank of Serbia led by Governor Dejan Šoškić.

She is the author of textbooks, ten monographs and over 50 studies, articles and papers.

She is married and a mother of two children.

References

• Diana Dragutinović biography
• Management of the National Bank of Serbia