Dejan Šoškić is Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Belgrade (EFB).  Born 1967 in Belgrade he graduated in 1989 (EFB) and was awarded as the best student of the generation by the University of Belgrade. He holds a M.A. in Monetary Economics and Banking (1993, EFB) and a Ph.D. in Finance (1999, EFB). He worked at the Economics Institute Belgrade in 1991, and joined EFB in 1993. He Teaches undergraduate courses at EFB: Financial Markets, Securities Investments, Economic Statistics and graduate courses: Portfolio Risk Analyses, and Derivatives.

He has been president of the Commission for Graduate Studies in Foreign Languages at EFB, president of the Commission for Foreign Graduate Validation at EFB, and Vice-Dean for Research at EFB (2004-2006).

He headed a research project financed by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Serbia on the “Development of financial markets in the Transition of the Economy of Serbia”.

He has been teaching courses in the field of Banking and Finance on undergraduate and graduate level at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, USA (2002), the Summer University of Wirtschaftsuniversität, Wien (2008-2010), and a Master in Banking and Entrepreneurship organized by Unicredito Group , Italy (2005-2013). He has been a member of several PhD defense committees of foreign Universities (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona, Stockholm University).

In 2002, as a Fulbright scholar, he held a series of guest lectures at the University of New Heaven, the University of Rhode Island, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Other posts: Executive Director and Privatization Consultant in Stockbroker A.D. – Brokerage and Consulting firm – (1997-2001); Special Advisor for Financial Markets at the National bank of Yugoslavia (2000 – 2002); Long term Advisor in Policy, Legal Advice Center of the EU in Serbia (2002 – 2003); Member of the Council of the National Bank of Serbia (2003-2004); Executive Director and Risk Management Consultant at the Center for Investments and Finance – Consulting and Risk Management Software Development firm – (2005-2010); Member of the Economic Council of the Prime Minister of Serbia (2009 – 2010); President of the Council of the National Bank of Serbia (2009 -2010); Governor of the National Bank of Serbia (2010-2012); Member of the Board of Scientific Association of Serbian Economists (2006-2010 and 2014-); Member of the Board of Serbian Association of Economists (2013-).

He is the author of the book “Securities: Portfolio Management and Mutual Funds”. He has coauthored the books “Financial Markets and Institutions”, “Economic Statistics” and “Stock Exchange Lexicon”. He has published more than 70 papers in the fields of Banking, Monetary Economics, Financial Markets and Transition.