Vladimir Stipetić (27 January 1928 – 23 July 2017) was a Croatian

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, former university professor and rector of the

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. Stipetić was born in

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. He graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Economics in 1951 and earned a

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at the same institution in 1956. Between 1951 and 1960 he worked at

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, the Zagreb Institute of Economics and the Federal Institute for Economic Planning ( Croatian ''Savezni zavod za privredno planiranje''). Between 1970 and 1971 he served as dean of the Faculty of Economy and then as rector of the University of Zagreb for three years from 1986 to 1989. He also held posts in various governmental bodies of

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and

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. Stipetić became a member of the

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in 1973 and in 2000 he was made an honorary ''professor emeritus'' of the University of Zagreb. Stipetić also published some 30 books dealing with Yugoslav economics and agrarian economy.

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