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Kori Udovički
PhD
Kori Udovički PhD
Кори Удовички
	Udovički in 2013
Deputy Prime Minister of Government of Serbia
	In office; 27 April 2014 – 11 August 2016
Preceded by	Suzana Grubješić
Succeeded by	Nebojša Stefanović
Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government
	In office; 27 April 2014 – 11 August 2016
Preceded by	Nikola Selaković (Public Administration); Igor Mirović (Local Self-Government)
Succeeded by	Ana Brnabić
Assistant Secretary-General of United Nations, Director of the Regional Bureau of UNDP for Europe and CIS and Assistant Administrator of UNDP
	In office; 1 February 2007 – 22 February 2012
Preceded by	Kalman Mizsei
Succeeded by	Cihan Sultanoğlu
2nd Governor of the National Bank of Serbia
	In office; 22 July 2003 – 1 March 2004
Preceded by	Mlađan Dinkić
Succeeded by	Radovan Jelašić
Minister of Mining and Energy
	In office; 19 June 2002 – 22 July 2003
Preceded by	Goran Novaković
Succeeded by	Radomir Naumov
Personal details
Born	4 December 1961 (age 63); La Paz, Bolivia
Nationality	Serbian, Bolivian
Education	BEcon University of Belgrade, MA and PhD Yale University
Profession	Economist
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Kori Udovički (Serbian Cyrillic: Кори Удовички, Serbian pronunciation: [kôri udoʋǐtʃkiː]; born 4 December 1961) is a Serbian former politician. An independent politician, she previously served as deputy prime minister of Serbia and minister of public administration and local self-government from 2014 to 2016,^[1]^[2] governor of the National Bank of Serbia from 2003 to 2004, and minister of mining and energy from 2002 to 2003.

Prior to that position, she served as an Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Assistant Administrator of the UNDP and Director of the Regional Bureau of UNDP for Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States (RBEC) from 2007 to 2012.^[3]^[4]

Previously she was the founder and the President of the Center for Advanced Economic Studies (CEVES), a Belgrade NGO that works for the advancement of economic research and education in South East Europe. She was also President of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the Advancement of Economics (FREN). CEVES's main publication is Quarterly Monitor of Economic Trends and Policies in Serbia, a publication that systematically monitors macroeconomic, corporate and financial trends and policies in Serbia. It comes out in Serbian and English and is also posted on the CEVES and FREN websites. Kori Udovički was the Editor in Chief until February 2007.

Personal life

Kori was born in La Paz (Bolivia) to a Serbian father and a Bolivian mother.^[5]^[6] She is married and has three children.^[6] Her maternal uncle is former President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada.^[5]^[6] Her father Lazar Udovički [sr] was a politician in SFR Yugoslavia who served as ambassador in Uruguay and volunteer in Spanish Civil War.^[6] Kori is the sister-in-law of actor Rade Šerbedžija as he is married to her sister Lenka.

Education and political career

She graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics in 1984 she obtained an MA (1988) and a PhD (1999) in Economics from Yale University. She researched inter-regional trade and integration between the republics of the former Yugoslavia. More recently, she has studied the sustainability of Serbia's macroeconomic framework. From 1993 to 2001, she worked at the IMF in Washington, D.C., and then returned to Belgrade as Special Advisor to the Serbian Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs. In 2002, she became Minister of Energy and Mining in Serbian Government. She was appointed Governor of the National Bank of Serbia^[7] on July 23, 2003, a position she held until February 25, 2004, when her appointment was annulled due to the illegal use of a proxy vote in the Serbian parliament ^{[citation needed]}.

References

^ New government by August 4, five ministers are out - report B92.net 26 July 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
^ Udovicki: Public policy secretariat to be introduced Archived 2016-09-10 at the Wayback Machine INSerbia.info 28 April 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
^ "Turkish Minister Meets Senior UN Official". Turkish Weekly. 16 April 2010. Archived from the original on 18 April 2010. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
^ "Kori Udovicki joins UNDP as Director of Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States". UNDP Newsroom. 1 February 2007. Archived from the original on 2 December 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Kori Udovički". Istinomer (in Serbian). Retrieved 2023-05-30.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Kori Udovički - Lik i delo - Nedeljnik Vreme". www.vreme.com (in Serbian). 2003-07-24. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
^ "Serbia seeks new top banker". BBC News. 21 July 2003. Retrieved 14 January 2011.

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Political offices
Preceded by Goran Novaković	Minister of Mining and Energy of Serbia 2002–2003	Succeeded by Radomir Naumov
Preceded by Mlađan Dinkić	Governor of the National Bank of Serbia 2003–2004	Succeeded by Radovan Jelašić
Preceded by Nikola Selaković (Public Administration) Igor Mirović (Local Self-Government)	Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government 2014–2016	Succeeded by Ana Brnabić
Preceded by Suzana Grubješić	Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia 2014–2016	Succeeded by Nebojša Stefanović