Mr. Zeljko Rohatinski, PhD, was born in Zagreb on August 3, 1951.

He graduated in 1974, and received his doctor’s degree in 1988, both from the Zagreb Faculty of Economics. He started his professional career in 1974 as a trainee in the Republic Bureau of Planning. He was elected general manager of the Bureau in 1989. A year later, in 1990, he was appointed Head of the Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy Division, Institute of Economics in Zagreb, which he managed till 1998.

After that he became Chief Economist in the Privredna banka Zagreb, which duty he performed till April 2000, when he took up the post of Director for Macroeconomic Analyses at “Agrokor”. Mr. Rohatinski has been awarded several international scholarships (among others the Fulbright grant); he has written a number of scholarly papers on economic issues, the book “ Vremenska dimenzija ekonomske aktivnosti društva” and “A Road to Low Inflation” (as a co-author).

Zeljko Rohatinski was appointed Governor of the Croatian National Bank on July 12, 2000 pursuant to the decision of the Croatian Parliament. On July 7, 2006 the Croatian Parliament  reappointed dr. Rohatinski for a second six-year term of office.

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