Siniša Mali

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Siniša Mali ( Cyrillic Синиша Мали; born August 25, 1972 in Belgrade , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian politician and economist. He is a member of the Serbian Progress Party . He was Mayor of Belgrade from April 24, 2014 to May 2018 . He has been the Minister of Finance of Serbia since May 29, 2018.

Life

Mali was born on August 25, 1972 in Belgrade. He attended elementary and middle school in Belgrade. He graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in economics . He received his MA from Washington University in St. Louis and in 2013 he successfully completed his PhD in the Faculty of Organizational Sciences.

Before he got into politics, Mali worked for four years (two years each in Prague and Belgrade) as a manager for Deloitte & Touche , one of the four largest consulting firms, where he dealt with privatization, buying and selling companies and restructuring and consolidation, business analysis. Mali then worked for Credit Suisse First Boston , one of the world's strongest investment banks, in New York .

In February 2001 he was appointed Deputy Minister for Privatization in the Ministry of Economy and Privatization of the Government of Serbia. With the establishment of the Agency for Privatization on July 17, 2001, all operational activities related to the privatization of the Ministry went to the Agency. At the same time, Mali moved to this agency and became the director of the privatization center. After the privatization center was abolished, he became director of the tendering center. He stayed in this position until the end of 2003.

He then founded his consulting firm, which deals with advice on buying and selling companies, financial restructuring, business consolidation and management consulting.

In 2012 he was appointed Finance and Economic Advisor to the first Vice-President of the Serbian Government, Aleksandar Vučić . By resolution of the Serbian government, Mali was appointed a candidate for the Serbian Progressive Party as president of the interim body of Belgrade on November 18, 2013 and remained there until the election on March 16, 2014. On April 24, 2014, he was elected mayor of Belgrade.

After the former finance minister resigned for personal reasons, Siniša Mali was appointed finance minister on May 29, 2018 at the suggestion of Prime Minister Ana Brnabić.

Controversy

In July 2014, Mali made inglorious headlines. Like many Serbian politicians, Mali is also accused of plagiarism. Rasa Karapandza, a finance professor from Serbia who teaches at the EBS University of Economics and Law in Wiesbaden, says that Mali's dissertation is the worst plagiarism he has seen so far. Mali is said to have copied more than a third of its 220-page doctoral thesis without any labeling.

On November 21, 2019, the Ethics Committee of the University of Belgrade decided that Mali's dissertation was plagiarism. As a result, the Commission submitted a request to the University of Belgrade Council to cancel the title.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siniša Mali's biography Istonomer; accessed on March 12, 2018
  2. ↑ Siniša Mali gradonačelnik Beograda (de: Siniša Mali is mayor of Belgrade) RTS; April 24, 2014; accessed on March 12, 2018
  3. ^ Siniša Mali. Retrieved May 14, 2019 (Serbian).
  4. ^ Plagiarism affair in Serbia Doctorate degree secretly Spiegel Online; Thomas Brey; August 8, 2014; accessed on March 12, 2018
  5. ↑ Sinisa Mali's PhD to be annulled. In: Serbian Monitor. November 22, 2019. Retrieved November 27, 2019 (American English).

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personal data
SURNAME Mali, Siniša
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мали, Синиша (Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian politician and economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade , Socialist Republic of Serbia , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia