Dr. Neven Vidaković has a BA in economics and financial mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA. He has a master’s in economics from the Economics faculty in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Maribor in Maribor. He is a tenured professor in monetary policy and banking.
Neven worked in US as a financial derivatives broker, from 2003 to 2005. In 2005 dr. Vidaković returned to Croatia and started working in the Strategic ALM office and risk specialist in Privredna Banka Zagreb and in Intesa Sanpaolo headquarters in Milan. After a career in banking from 2013 – 2016 dr. Vidaković was vice-dean for research, development, and quality at a business school. From 2017 to 2020 he worked at an asset management company managing mutual funds. Currently, he is the CEO of his own consulting company Loti Trading LLC and board member at Escont Partners LLC.
Dr. Vidaković’s research is primarily focused on banking and monetary policy. He has published multiple professional and scientific articles. Dr. Vidaković has also published several books, most importantly he is a co-author of Exchanges – principles and practice (joint with Ivo Andrijanić), Banking (joint with Miroslav Gregurek) and Exchange rate regimes – choices and consequences; Monetary and credit analysis.