Radovan Jelašić has served as governor of the National Bank of Serbia (the country’s central bank) since 2004; he was vice-governor of the bank (formerly the National Bank of Yugoslavia) from 2000 to 2003, in which post he was in charge of negotiations with the IMF, the World Bank and the EU, as well as overseeing the development and implementation of banking sector restructuring, reform of the banking supervision process and the reorganisation of the bank’s IT department. Mr Jelašić began his banking career with Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, where he worked for four years as a regional manager for central and eastern Europe. In 1999 he joined leading consulting firm McKinsey & Company, for which he worked on banking projects in Germany, Poland and Bulgaria in the fields of credit financing, privatisation, corporate takeover, organisational restructuring and mortgage financing. He graduated from the University of Belgrade’s economics faculty and subsequently obtained an MBA from the University of Illinois in Chicago.