Boris Vujčić (born 1964) earned his doctorate in economics at the University of Zagreb. He also graduated in economics from the University of Montpellier (France), and as a recipient of the Fulbright scholarship, he attended a pre-doctoral program at Michigan State University. As an intern, he underwent professional training in the European Commission, in the Department for Monetary Affairs. Between 1992 and 1994, he was a guest expert at the Institute of Development Studies, at the University of Sussex in Brighton, a guest lecturer at the University of Freiburg in Germany, and a guest researcher at the University of Kentucky in the United States. From 1994 to 2000, he was an occasional external collaborator for the International Labour Organization (ILO) and an advisor in the European Commission. He joined the Croatian National Bank in 1997, where he worked for three years as the director of the Research Directorate. He was appointed Deputy Governor in 2000 and was re-elected to this position in 2006. In July 2012, the Croatian Parliament appointed him as the Governor of the Croatian National Bank for a term of six years. By the decision of the Croatian Parliament in July 2018, he was appointed for a second term as the Governor of the Croatian National Bank. Boris Vujčić began his academic career in 1989 as an assistant at the Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb, where in 2003 he obtained the title of associate professor and teaches the course Labour Economics. As an external collaborator, he also teaches at the Mathematics Department of the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, and at VERN. From 2005 to 2012, he was the deputy chief negotiator in the negotiations of the Republic of Croatia with the European Union. During the same period, from 2005 to 2012, he was also a member of the Steering Committee of the international organization Global Development Network (GDN). Since 2013, he has been a member of the General Council of the European Central Bank, since 2016 a member of the Steering Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), and since 2016 the chairman of the Steering Committee of the Vienna Initiative II. His areas of specialization are macroeconomics, monetary economics, international finance, and labor economics. He speaks English and French.
