Speakers

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. On July 2024 he was re-appointed for his third term of office. Mr Vujčić was a deputy chief negotiator in the Republic of Croatia’s negotiations with the European Union between 2005 and 2012. He was also a member of the Global Development Network (GDN) Board in the same period, and a member of the steering committee of the ESRB in the period between 2016 and 2019. Mr Vujčić 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 January 1st, 2023 Governor Vujčić has been a member of the governing council of the European Central Bank. 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. Boris Vujčić holds a PhD in economics from the University of Zagreb. He 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 a visiting professor since 2004.