FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 30, 2006
Leading World Bank economist Branko Milanovic has joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, announced the Endowment’s president, Jessica T. Mathews. As a senior associate on a two-year assignment with Carnegie’s Global Policy Program, Milanovic will focus his research on globalization and world income distribution, as well as the interaction between politics, reform, and inequality in transition countries.
“Branko’s economic expertise applied to income inequality and globalization will bring a new level of scholarship to the Carnegie Endowment,” said Mathews. “His experience with Eastern European transitional countries gives him a remarkable perspective on issues of particular interest to our current work.”
Milanovic is the lead economist in the World Bank’s research department, working on the topics of income inequality, globalization, and political economy in post-Communist countries. Previously, he was a World Bank country economist for Poland and a research fellow at the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Since 1996, Milanovic has also served as a visiting professor teaching the economics of transition at the Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 1987 from Belgrade University.