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ICMB PUBLIC CONFERENCE
Thursday
09
March
Guverner Boris Vujčić new

Introducing the €uro in Times of Inflation: The Case of Croatia

Mr. Boris Vujčić, Governor - Croatian National Bank
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Auditorium Ivan Pictet, Maison de la paix, Geneva

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In this presentation Governor will speak about the euro adoption process - then and now; about challenges in the context of high inflation and about the benefits of adopting the euro for a small EU Member State.

Boris Vujčić holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Zagreb. He has also received diplomas in Economics from the Montpellier University (France) and was a pre-doctoral PhD Fulbright student at the Michigan State University. He joined the Croatian National Bank in 1996, and was Director of the Research Department before becoming Deputy Governor in 2000, a position to which he was re-appointed in 2006. 

In July 2012, Mr Vujčić became Governor of the Croatian National Bank for a six-year term of office and was re-appointed for another six-year term of office in July 2018. Mr Vujčić has been a Deputy Chief Negotiator in Republic of Croatia’s negotiations with the European Union 2005-2012. He was also a member of the Global Development Network (GDN) Board in the same period, 2005-2012, and a member of the Steering Committee of the ESRB in the period between 2016-2019. 

Mr Vujčić has been an associate professor at the Zagreb Faculty of Economics since 2003. At the Zagreb Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, he has lectured as visiting professor since 2004. Mr Vujčić's fields of expertise and teaching include macro and monetary economics, international finance and labour economics. He is the author of numerous scholarly papers on economic issues.

He has been a Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Vienna Initiative 2.0 since 2016, a member of the General Council of the ECB and a member of the General Board of the ESRB since 2013. Since 1.1.2023. Governor Vujčić is a member of the Governing Council of the ECB
Mr Vujčić won recognitions as the best governor in Central and Eastern Europe by Emerging Markets magazine in 2018, as well as the best world governor by The Banker (Financial Times) in 2019, and in 2021, he was rewarded with the Lamfalussy Award for lifetime achievement in the field of finance. 

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