Kori Udovički

Kori Udovički
Kori Udovički
Assistant Secretary-General of United Nations, Director of the Regional Bureau of UNDP for Europe and CIS and Assistant Administrator of UNDP
Incumbent
Assumed office
February 1, 2007
Preceded by Kalman Mizsei
2nd Governor of the National Bank of Serbia
In office
July 23, 2003 – February 25, 2004
Preceded by Mlađan Dinkić
Succeeded by Radovan Jelašić
Minister of Energy and Mining
In office
June 2002 – July 2003
Preceded by Goran Novaković
Succeeded by Radomir Naumov
Personal details
Born December 4, 1961 (1961-12-04) (age 50)
La Paz, Bolivia
Nationality Serbian, Bolivian
Profession Economist

Kori Udovički, Ph.D. (Serbian: Кори Удовички) is a former Serbian politician. She was born in 1961 in La Paz, Bolivia. She is an Assistant Secretary-General of United Nations, Assistant Administrator of UNDP and Director of the Regional Bureau of UNDP for Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States (RBEC).[1]

Previously she was the founder and the President of the Center for Advanced Economic Studies (CEVES), a Belgrade NGO that works for the advancement of economic research and education in South East Europe. She was also President of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the Advancement of Economics (FREN). CEVES's main publication is Quarterly Monitor of Economic Trends and Policies in Serbia , a publication that systematically monitors macroeconomic, corporate and financial trends and policies in Serbia. It comes out in Serbian and English and is also posted on the CEVES and FREN websites. Kori Udovički was the Editor in Chief until February 2007.

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Education and political career

She graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics in 1984 she obtained an MA (1988) and a PhD (1999) in Economics from Yale University. She researched inter-regional trade and integration between the republics of the former Yugoslavia. More recently, she has studied the sustainability of Serbia's macroeconomic framework. From 1993 to 2001, she worked at the IMF in Washington, D.C. and then returned to Belgrade as Special Advisor to the Serbian Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs. In 2002, she became Minister of Energy and Mining in Serbian Government. She was appointed Governor of the National Bank of Serbia[2] on July 23, 2003, a position she held until February 25, 2004, when her appointment was annulled due to the illegal use of a proxy vote in the Serbian parliament .

Personal and trivia

She is married and has three children. Her uncle is the former Bolivian president, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada.

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Preceded by
Goran Novaković
Minister of Energy and Mining
2002 – 2003
Succeeded by
Radomir Naumov
Preceded by
Mlađan Dinkić
Governor of the National Bank of Serbia
July 23, 2003 – February 25, 2004
Succeeded by
Radovan Jelašić