Dragoslav Avramović
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Dragoslav Avramović (14 October 1919, in Skopje – 26 February 2001, in Rockville, Maryland) was a Serbian economist and the governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia.
Biography
Born in 1919 in
He became widely known when in January 1994 his economic program stopped the hyperinflation in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav dinar got into 1:1 parity with the Deutsche Mark. From 2 March 1994 to 15 May 1996, he was the governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia and the main coordinator of the national economic, social and financial program from 1995 to 1997. All of this brought him huge popularity and according to opinion polls he was the second most popular public figure in Serbia at the time. He resigned in the wake of massive demonstrations against the regime of Slobodan Milošević. In the late 1990s, he was one of the leaders of the opposition alliance Savez za promene.
Avramović became a corresponding member of the
He died in Rockville, Maryland in 2001 and was soon afterwards buried in Belgrade.
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