Marko Simoneti

Marko Simoneti obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University, USA. He is currently a professor of law and economics at Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. He lectures on financial markets and institutions, corporate finance and public finance. He has published on issues of economic transition, privatization, financial restructuring of firms and banks, corporate governance and financial sector development. Marko Simoneti has extensive professional and managerial experience in the financial and corporate sector: Managing Director of the Agency for Privatization of Slovenia (1990-1993), Executive Director of CEEPN (1993-2004) - an international organization supporting economic transition in CEE countries, CEO of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange (2005-2009). After the big banking crisis, he served as President of the Supervisory Board of the largest Slovenian bank NLB (2009-2012) and President of the Board of BAMC - “Bad bank of Slovenia” (2015-2017). In the last thirty years, he has served as a private sector development adviser of The World Bank, EBRD, OECD, and EU assistance programs in most of the transitional economies in the Central and Eastern Europe.