Željko Rohatinski
Croatian economist (1951–2019)
Željko Rohatinski (3 August 1951 – 12 December 2019) was a Croatian economist who served as Governor of the Croatian National Bank from 2000 to 2012.
Early life
Rohatinski graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Economics in 1974, where he also received his doctorate in 1988 with a thesis titled Vremenska dimenzija ekonomske aktivnosti društva (lit. 'The Dimension of Time in Society's Economic Activities').
Career
He started his professional career in 1974 as an intern at Croatia's Republic Bureau of Planning, and was appointed general manager of the Bureau in 1989. In 1990 he was appointed Head of the Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy Division at the Zagreb Institute of Economics, which he managed until 1998, when he became Chief Economist at Privredna banka Zagreb, where he worked until April 2000 when he took up the post of Director for Macroeconomic Analyses at Agrokor, working closely with Ivica Todorić. He left that post only three months later, in July, upon being appointed Governor of the Croatian National Bank by decree of the Croatian Parliament on 12 July to serve a six-year term. On 7 July 2006, he was reappointed for his second six-year term at the post. In 2012, after his mandate had finished, he returned to Agrokor as an macroeconomic analyst.
Rohatinski was a Fulbright Program fellow, and he authored a number of research papers, a book edition of his thesis titled Vremenska dimenzija ekonomske aktivnosti društva (The Dimension of Time in Society's Economic Activities), and he also co-authored the book A Road to Low Inflation (published in English by the Croatian Government in 1995, ISBN 953-6430-00-2).
In December 2008, Jutarnji list, a national Croatian daily newspaper, selected Rohatinski as Person of the Year, crediting him with the stability of Croatia's financial system during the 2008 financial crisis. In January 2009, The Banker, an international financial monthly published by the Financial Times, bestowed two awards on Rohatinski in their annual banking awards.
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