Jorgovanka Tabaković

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Jorgovanka Tabaković

Jorgovanka Tabaković (born March 20, 1960 ) is a Serbian politician and manager. Since 2012 she has been the governor of the National Bank of Serbia .

Career

Tabaković studied economics at the University of Prishtina until 1981 and then taught until 1989 before she worked for a trading company for two years. From 1992 she sat for the Radical Party in the parliament of the newly founded Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . At the same time she worked for the local branch of Beogradska Banka based in Prishtina . After the Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milošević instigated a new formation in 1998 under the leadership of the Socialist Party of Serbia in a coalition of the Radical Party and the Yugoslav Left , she was appointed Minister for Property and Economic Transition . After the 2000 election, she handed over her office to Oskar Kovač in October of that year , and she also lost her mandate.

After Tabaković obtained a master’s degree from the University of Prishtina in 1999, she switched to Telekom Srbij . In 2007 she was elected to the Serbian parliament for the first time. After the Radical Party split in autumn that year due to internal quarrels, it joined the newly founded Progress Party in 2008 . In the same year she completed her doctorate . Since August 2012, she has succeeded Dejan Šoškić , who was governor of the National Bank of Serbia following the passage of a law that gave the Serbian government more influence over the central bank's policies. As a result, she resigned her parliamentary mandate. In August 2018 she was confirmed for a further six-year term.

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