Kori Udovički

Kori Udovički PhD
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Deputy Prime Minister of Government of Serbia
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 April 2014
Preceded by	Suzana Grubješić
Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 April 2014
Preceded by	Nikola Selaković (Public Administration) Igor Mirović (Local Self-Government)
Assistant Secretary-General of United Nations, Director of the Regional Bureau of UNDP for Europe and CIS and Assistant Administrator of UNDP
In office 1 February 2007 – 22 February 2012
Preceded by	Kalman Mizsei
Succeeded by	Cihan Sultanoğlu
2nd Governor of the National Bank of Serbia
In office 22 July 2003 – 1 March 2004
Preceded by	Mlađan Dinkić
Succeeded by	Radovan Jelašić
Minister of Mining and Energy
In office 19 June 2002 – 22 July 2003
Preceded by	Goran Novaković
Succeeded by	Radomir Naumov
Personal details
Born	(1961-12-04) 4 December 1961 La Paz, Bolivia
Nationality	Serbian, Bolivian
Education	BEcon University of Belgrade, MA and PhD Yale University
Profession	Economist

Kori Udovički, Ph.D. (Serbian Cyrillic: Кори Удовички) (Serbian pronunciation: [kôri udoʋǐtʃkiː]) (born 4 December 1961 in La Paz, Bolivia) is a Serbian politician and current Deputy Prime Minister, and the Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government in the Government of Serbia.

She was an Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Assistant Administrator of the UNDP and Director of the Regional Bureau of UNDP for Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States (RBEC) from 2007 to 2012.

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 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 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. Her father was a politician of former communist Yugoslavia Lazar Udovički who served as ambassador in Bolivia.

External links

• RBEC (UNDP)
• FREN
• -{Quarterly Monitor of Economic Trends and Policies in Serbia - QM}-

Government offices
Preceded by Goran Novaković	Minister of Mining and Energy of Serbia 2002 – 2003	Succeeded by Radomir Naumov
Preceded by Mlađan Dinkić	Governor of the National Bank of Serbia 2003 – 2004	Succeeded by Radovan Jelašić
Preceded by Nikola Selaković (Public Administration) Igor Mirović (Local Self-Government)	Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government 2014–present	Incumbent
Preceded by Suzana Grubješić	Deputy Prime Minister of Government of Serbia 2014–present	Incumbent