Ivo Perišin (4 July 1925 – 30 October 2008) was a

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n economist, politician and academician. He held various senior governmental posts in the

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in the 1970s and was mayor of

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from 1965 to 1967. In 1949, Perišin graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Economics. He continued studies at the

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, and defended his doctoral thesis at the Belgrade Faculty of Economics in 1959. From 1956 he was a professor of economics at the

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. From 1965 to 1967 he was the Mayor of

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. He served as the governor of the

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from 1 November 1969 to 31 December 1971. He was President of the Assembly of SR Croatia from 1974 to 1978. He was admitted as full member of the

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(today Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts) on 17 May 1990.

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