Kemal Kozarić is the current governor of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Education
He completed his elementary and high school education in Sarajevo, as well as graduating from the Faculty of Economics of University of Sarajevo in 1981, at the Marketing Department. At the same Faculty he defended Doctoral Dissertation on the subject "Impact of Cr Growth on the Economic Development of Transitional Countries", and thereby he acquired the academic degree of the Doctor of Philosophy in Economics on 11 February 2009.
Career
Thesis "Perspectives of the Monetary Policy Model of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Path Towards the European Union" in September 2006, which promoted him into Master in Economics. He worked for 15 years in banking, and from 1996 until beginning of 2000, he was the Minister of Finance in Sarajevo Canton Government. After that he was appointed Vice Governor of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As of 1 January 2005, Kozarić became Governor of the CBBH and Chairman of the CBBH Governing Board replacing Peter Nicholl.
He has been re-appointed to the CBBH Governing Board by the BH Presidency on 10 June 2009, and the Governing Board of the CBBH has re-appointed him for the Governor for the second mandate. Kozarić was elected Deputy Chairman of the Governors’ Club of Central Banks of Central Asia, Black Sea Region, and the Balkans’ Countries for the period 2007–2008.
In 2007 he has been appointed to the chairman position of the BH Deposit Insurance Agency Governing Board. Since 2005, Kemal Kozarić, Doctor of Philosophy, has delivered many lectures at various faculties and academic gatherings and presented a number of papers at conferences abroad and in the country.
In this period he has published a number of texts on actual subjects from the banking area and on modern trends in economy of BH and the region, published in professional magazines.
He is also a co-author, together with Nikola Fabris, of a book titled "Monetary-cr policy".
Views
He successfully defended his Master of Arts
Membership
Based on the decision of the BH Presidency dated 20 May 2003, he was appointed member of the Governing Board of the CBBH, while continue to perform his duties of the CBBH Vice Governor.