Radovan Jelašić ( sr-cyr, Радован Јелашић; hu, Jelasity Radován; born 19 February 1968) is a Hungarian-Serbian economist who served as the

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of the

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from 2004 to 2010. He has been the CEO of

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Hungary since June 2011 and is also the chairman of the Hungarian Banking Association.

Biography

Jelašić completed his secondary education at Serbian school 'Nikola Tesla' in

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. In 1992, Jelašić graduated from the

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and went on to obtain a master's degree of Business in Finance at the

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. Jelašić began his banking career with

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in Frankfurt, where he worked for four years as a Regional Manager for Central and Eastern Europe. In 1999 he moved to

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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 and was in charge of development and implementation of banking sector restructuring, reform of the banking supervision process, negotiations with the

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and

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on programs related to the financial sector, as well as reorganization of the NBS IT Department. He also worked on the 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 banka in

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. On 25 February 2004, the

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appointed Jelašić Governor of the National Bank of Serbia. He began his term in office on 1 March 2004. In the first part of 2005, Jelašić became a subject of controversy in regards to his claim that he bought his 180m² villa together with the surrounding 15.5ar of land in the elite

neighbourhood of

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for only

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380,000. The story was pursued throughout 2005 by the daily tabloid ''

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'', which quoted various experts who appraised the estate's worth to at least €1.5 million. He resigned on 23 March 2010, however his resignation was adopted by

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on 28 July 2010. In 2011, Jelašić was included as one of the subjects in the book "Serbia: Faces & Places". He is currently occupying the position of CEO at Erste Bank in Budapest, Hungary.

References

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