- Kori Udovički
Infobox Officeholder | name =Kori Udovički
nationality =Serbian, Bolivian
caption = Kori Udovički
order =Governor of theNational Bank of Serbia
term_start =July 23 2003
term_end =February 25 2004
deputy =
predecessor =Mlađan Dinkić
successor =Radovan Jelašić
nominated by =National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
birth_date =birth date and age|1961|12|4
birth_place =La Paz ,Bolivia
education =BEconUniversity of Belgrade , MA and PhDYale University
death_date =
death_place =
spouse =
profession =Economist|Kori Udovički, Ph.D. ( _sr. Кори Удовички) is
Serbia n politician. She was born in1961 inLa Paz ,Bolivia . She is an Assistant Secretary-General ofUnited Nations , Assistant Administrator of UNDP and Director of the Regional Bureau of UNDP for Europe andCommonwealth of Independent States (RBEC).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.
Education and political career
She graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the
University of Belgrade in1984 she obtained an MA (1988 ) and a PhD (1999 ) in Economics fromYale University . She researched inter-regional trade and integration between the republics of the formerYugoslavia . More recently, she has studied the sustainability of Serbia's macroeconomic framework. From1993 to2001 , she worked at the IMF inWashington, D.C. and then returned to Belgrade as Special Advisor to the Serbian Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs. In2002 , she became Minister of Energy and Mining in Serbian Government. She was appointed Governor of theNational Bank of Serbia onJuly 23 2003 , a position she held untilFebruary 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 .External links
* [http://europeandcis.undp.org/ RBEC (UNDP)]
* [http://www.ceves.org.yu/ CEVES]
* [http://www.fren.org.yu/ FREN]
* [http://www.ceves.org.yu/english// Quarterly Monitor of Economic Trends and Policies in Serbia - QM]
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