Radovan Jelašić was born in 1968 in Baya, Hungary. In 1992 he graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Economics and went on to take a Master's degree in Business Finance at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. Jelasic began his banking career with the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, where he worked for four years as a Regional Manager for Central and Eastern Europe.

In 1999 he moved to the McKinsey & Company Inc. in Frankfurt, working on banking projects in Germany, Poland and Bulgaria. The projects were related to credit financing, privatization, corporate takeovers, organizational restructuring, corporate financing and preparation of mortgage strategies.

From December 2000 until July 2003 he held the position of Vice-Governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia/Serbia during which time he was in charge of development and implementaton of banking sector restructuring, reform of the banking supervision process, negotiations with the IMF, World Bank and EU on programes related to the financial sector, as well as reorganization of the NBS IT Department, founding of the special department to help finance small and medium-size enterprises, and organization of technical help to the National Bank of Serbia.
He was appointed Governor of the National Bank of Serbia on 25 February 2004 by the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and began his term in office on 1 March 2004. Following enactment of the new Constitution and Constitutional Law, on September 26, 2007 he was appointed Governor of the National Bank of Serbia for a new term of five years.

Ardian Fullani graduated from Faculty of Economy & Finance and from the Faculty of Law, University of Tirana, respectively in 1977 and 1991. He has extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of the banking sector in Albania and abroad. He started working at the State Bank of Albania in 1985 and in 1987 was appointed Deputy Director of the Foreign Department and worked in this capacity until 1990. From 1990-1992 he was Head of the Foreign Department at Albanian Commercial Bank.
Ardian Fullani joined the Bank of Albania in 1992, in the capacity of the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Albania and from 1993-1996 he was appointed as Director of the Foreign Department. During his activity in this sector, he has rendered his valuable contribution to establishing a modern central bank in Albania, preparing its regulatory framework, especially regarding foreign exchange market operation, foreign reserve management policies, and designing and coordinating the Bank of Albania strategies for intermediation and cooperation with the IMF, WB, EBRD and with other international financial institutions.

Mr. Fullani has been the coordinator of foreign financed investment projects in Albania (including FEFAD, Foundation for Enterprise Finance and Development, and KFW, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau). He has been the Albanian coordinator for the establishment and licensing of first joint-stock commercial banks (the Italian Albanian Bank and the Arab Albanian Islamic Bank); coordinator and participant in the Albanian External Debt Committee with the Paris Club and the Advisory Committee of 40 crediting banks, for reconciliation and rescheduling of Albania’s debts in arrears. From 1996-1997, Mr. Fullani focused his career on consultancy in national and international development projects, such as German-Albanian projects on: financing small and medium-size enterprises in agriculture and agro-industry; foreign exchange market restructuring and institutionalization and capital market development in Albania; capital market analysis in Albania.

Mr. Fullani is a co-author of a research on risks and consequences of formalization, restructuring and transformation of pyramid schemes in Albania. His experience with the Italian-Albanian Bank includes the period 1997-2004, initially as Deputy General Manager and Head of the Financial Department (1997-2000) and later on as General Manager (2000-2004). He has been also working in the capacity of the President of the Albanian Association of Banks, Chairman of the Institute of Banking Studies and Assistance, as well as Commissioner of the Albanian Securities Commission.

He has also written many articles and scientific papers on economic and financial issues. He is fluent in three foreign languages: English, Italian and German. Ardian Fullani is the Governor of the Bank of Albania and Member of its Supervisory Council since October 2004. Governor Fullani was awarded the title " Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella della solidarietà italiana / Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity”, by the President of the Republic of Italy.

Igor Lukšić was born on June 14, 1976 in Bar, Montenegro, where he finished elementary and high school. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Podgorica, on June 10, 1998 with a major in entrepreneurship. At the same Faculty he obtained a Master’s Degree on October 3, 2002, the topic "Spontaneous Order and Transition” and a Ph.D. on September 10, 2005-topic "Transition - Process of Achieving Economic and Political Freedoms."

In the period June 1998 - February 2000, he worked as the assistant on implementation of assistance programmes of the European Commission "Obnova" in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro. From February 2000 to January 2001, he worked as an advisor for international relations in the DPS (Democratic Part of Socialists). In the period from January - May 2001, he performed duties of the Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From March 2003 to June 2006, he was a parliament member in the Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro.

He was elected four times as a member of the Parliament of Montenegro (in 2001, 2002, 2006 and 2008).

In the period from January to April 2003, he was the advisor to the Prime Minister for Public Relations. From March 2003 to February 2004, he served as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro. Since February 2004, he was elected to the position of Finance Minister four times, and since December 2008, as the Deputy Prime Minister twice.

During his mandate, he initiated a series of legal solutions and projects with the objective of further reforming the public finance and tax system, improving the business environment and eliminating business barriers, structural reforms, etc. In 2006, he was nominated for the Governor on behalf of Montenegro in the World Bank and in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
He is fluent in English, fair in French and Italian and is the youngest Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in the Government of Montenegro.

Zoran Stavreski, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Republic of Macedonia, was born on October 29, 1964. He received a BA in Economics in 1987 from Cyril and Methodious University, Faculty of Economics in Skoplje. He continued his education and in 1997 received a MA from Cyril and Methodious University, Faculty of Economics in Skoplje, with his thesis topic being Choice of Optimal Monetary Strategy and Instruments-Case of the Republic of Macedonia.

He has fifteen years of experience in development policies, focusing on the public sector and macroeconomic policy. Zoran Stavreski also has practical experience in the preparation and implementation of economic policies and structural reforms as well as in research and editing work on the topic of budget support. He has rich practical experience in conducting dialogue with the private sector, as well as international financial institutions and development organizations (IMF, WB, EU, EBRD, Council of Europe Development Bank, USAID). This experience also includes expertise in the countries in transition (Republic of Macedonia, Southeastern Europe) and in the international financial institutions, as well as knowledge of the World Bank policies and operational procedures.

Zoran Stavreski began his career in 1993 at the Central Bank of the Republic of Macedonia as a researcher in the research directorate. In 1997 he was appointed to the position of director of the Central Banks research directorate. He held this position until 2000 when he moved to the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Macedonia, where he held the position of undersecretary. In 2001 he became the advisor to the Executive Director in the Netherlands Constituency, a position he held until 2004 when he moved to the World Bank as a consultant in the Europe and Central Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit. In February 2006, Zoran Stavreski moved to the position of Senior Economist for Operational Policy and Country Services Units at the World Bank. He held this position until August 2006 when he was elected to the position of Vice Prime Minister in charge of economic affairs.

Zoran Stavreski speaks English and is married with one child.

Diana Dragutinovic was born in Belgrade, 1958. She graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Economics where she also received an MSc and a PhD and still lectures.
From 2001 until 2002 she was special advisor at the Ministry of Finance and Economy, as well as a special advisor at the International Monetary Fund (2002–2004). 

From September 1, 2004 she was Vice Governor of the National Bank of Serbia, in charge of coordination and management of research and statistics, monetary policy and payment systems.
Her main areas of research are macroeconomics, econometric modeling, financial programming, long-term economic growth theory, convergence analysis, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy, poverty and social policy. 
She is the author of several textbooks, ten monographs and over 50 studies, articles and papers. She is married and a mother of two.

Aleksandar Džombić was born in 1968 in Banja Luka. He completed his elementary and secondary education as well as the Faculty of Economics in Banja Luka. He is currently working on his graduate studies at the Faculty of Management ECPD (European Center for Peace and Development) in Belgrade.
To this point, he has worked in the City Administration of Banja Luka, Crystal Bank AD Banja Luka as an officer, the head office and project manager, and in Agroprom Bank AD Banja Luka as a director.

Before the elections for the Minister of Finance, he served as executive director of New Bank AD Bijeljina. By nationality he is Serbian. He is married and is the father of one child.

Dragan Vrankić was born on January 23, 1955 in Čapljina, Bosnia & Herzegovina. He is a graduated economist. He began his career in 1981 when he worked as a commercial manager for Energoinvest. In 1992, he moved to the Municipality of Čapljina where is held the position of deputy head of financial and economic affairs.

In 1997 he was appointed as Deputy Minister of Finance of the Canton of Herzegovina-Neretva. From 2001-2003 he was Prefect / Deputy Prefect of the Canton of Herzegovina-Neretva and in 2003 he was elected as deputy prime minister of the Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina and minister of finance. In 2007, he was elected to his current postion of Deputy Chairman of the council of ministers and minister of Finance and Treasury.

He is also currently the governor of Bosnia & Herzegovina for the IMF, National IPA Coordinator and Chairman of the Coordination Committee of the IPA, Chairman of the Management Board of the Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Member of the Management Board of the BiH Deposit Insurance Agency, and is also a member of the standing committee of senior representatives of the common successor states of the former Yugoslavia.

Vjekoslav Bevanda, minster of finance at the Federal Ministry of Finance was born on May 13, 1956 in Mostar. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics with a major in Finance from the Faculty of Economics on January 13, 1979. From 1979 to 1989 he worked with the Aircraft Industry SOKO Mostar, first as an Associate for investment funding and later as Head of payment services as well as Director of the Sector of Banking Issues, Director of Special Finance Service and as Director of the Internal Bank respectively.

From 1990 until 1993 he worked with APRO Bank Mostar as Director of the Factoring Sector and then as Deputy Director and Director of the Bank, respectively. From 1993 until 1999 he worked with Eurosped Group Zagreb as member of the EG's Board, as Director of Nord Adria Trieste and as Director of Nord Adria Wien. 
From 2000 until 2001 he worked with Euro Center Split as Director, and from 2001 until 2007 as Director of Commercebank Stock Co. Sarajevo; CBS Bank Stock Co. Sarajevo, and NLB Group as Director of the Mostar Branch and Director of Principal Branch Mostar. 
He is married and has two daughters.

Dejan Šoškić (NBS Council chairman) was born in Belgrade in 1967. He graduated in 1989 from Belgrade University, Faculty of Economics, and obtained his MSc degree in 1993 and PhD degree in 1999 from the same Faculty. Currently he is a part-time professor at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade. As a lecturer for graduate and MBA courses at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, Mr Šoškić taught financial markets and institutions, financial management and international business and economy. In 2002, he was a guest lecturer at universities of New Haven, Rhode Island and Berkeley, USA. He attended specialised financial market courses at US universities (in 1994, 1998 and 2002) and the Swiss National Bank (in 2001).

Mr Šoškić is a Fulbright alumnus and member of the Presidency of the Scientific Association of Economists. He served as a special financial markets advisor in the National Bank of Yugoslavia (end-2000–2002), economic policy advisor in the EU Policy and Legal Advice Centre (2002-2003), and was a member of the Council of the National Bank of Serbia (2003-2004). He authored the book “Securities: Portfolio Management and Investment Funds”, and co-authored publications such as: “Financial Markets and Institutions”, “Economic Statistics” and “Stock Exchange Glossary”. He has published more than 40 articles and papers in the field of financial markets and institutions and transition in Serbia.

Massimo Cingolani is Deputy Head of the Slovenia, Croatia and Western Balkans Division within the Directorat e for Lending in the European Union at the European Investment Bank. From 2001 until 2008 he was responsible for lending operations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary and from 1995 to 2000 he was responsible for operations in Bulgaria.

Previously, he worked as economist in the Research Directorate of the Bank since 1990. In 1983 he obtained his degree in Economics at ULB (Free University of Brussels) and in Political Sciences at Bologna University in 1985. He also graduated from the ULB with a Master’s degree in econometrics in 1985. Between 1983 and 1985 he did a stage at the European Commission in Brussels, worked in research at Centre for European Policies Studies and at Department d’Économie Appliquée at ULB in Brussels. From 1986 to 1988 he worked as an economist at Data Resources Inc (DRI) in Brussels, and, after that, he became a senior economist at Prometeia in Bologna from 1988 to 1990.

Since 2006 he follows various activities linked to the EIB-Universities Research Action to channel the Bank’s institutional support to higher education and academic research. This included a STAREBEI program developed in cooperation with the University of Nice on: "The evolution of macro-financial aggregates in the new EU Member States and in Candidate Countries: a reading through the theory of monetary circuit" and an EIBURS programme incooperation with the Università degli Studi di Milano on “Public Investment under Budgetary Constraints in New Member States”.
He is author of studies and articles focusing on EU policies, some of which have been published in Italy, Serbia UK and Germany.

Resmi Hibraj is the Director of Borrowing at the Ministry of Finance of Albania, and oversees the domestic and foreign financing of the government needs. He is also a member of the Faculty of the University of Tirana.

He was born in Vlore, Albania, in 1977. After completing High School in his hometown, he moved to the United States in 1996, to continue the higher education. He completed his Bachelor and MBA degrees and worked for many years in the financial sector. Some of his past work experience includes managing roles in Retail, Commercial Banking and Portfolio Management at JP Morgan Chase, ABN AMRO, and Fifth Third Bank.