{"id":8129,"date":"2010-01-04T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=8129"},"modified":"2011-08-18T16:07:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T20:07:58","slug":"economics-alum-is-world-bank-leader-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/01\/economics-alum-is-world-bank-leader-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics Alum is World Bank Leader on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8389\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Bogetic_3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8389 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Bogetic_3.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;Zeljko Bogetic. Provided by Bogetic&lt;\/p&gt;\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/150;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zeljko Bogetic. Photo provided by the World Bank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Zeljko Bogetic came to UConn in 1985 from Montenegro in the former Yugoslavia, he planned to get his master\u2019s degree in economics in just 10 months, the amount of time covered by his Fulbright Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>But coming to UConn \u201cturned out to be a fantastic decision,\u201d he says, and he stayed to earn a Ph.D. in economics in 1990 and to publish his dissertation on the Yugoslavian economy.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Bogetic is the lead economist for Russia at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He went to work at the World Bank directly from UConn as part of its Young Professionals program, an elite group of 25 to 30 people recruited each year from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Being an economist has offered him opportunities to work globally and to tackle real world policy issues, Bogetic says.<\/p>\n<p>His earlier assignment at the World Bank was to South Africa, \u201canother fascinating country,\u201d he says, with its vast territory, resources, infrastructure, and internal ethnic tension.<\/p>\n<p>He lives in Moscow now, traveling to D.C. for meetings. Since the world economic crisis hit, demand is high for analyses of Russia\u2019s economy and public administration, areas that his section studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just now living in a very intensive period,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Bogetic\u2019s duties vary from running an advisory program with the Russian government to analyzing the effects of different oil price scenarios to briefing economic journalists and foreign investors and speaking at forums around the world.<\/p>\n<p>He collaborates closely with the Russians, but his section also has a wide international audience for its reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a big demand for arms-length analysis of the Russian economy,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Bogetic credits the influence of his Ph.D. adviser, Professor Dennis Heffley, with helping him mature as an economist, and the economics department with providing a strong grounding in fundamentals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was as ready as anyone else in my class at the World Bank,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn more ways than one, I owe that to UConn,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m very much of a Husky.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zeljko Bogetic says UConn prepared him well for his job as World Bank lead economist for Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[38],"class_list":["post-8129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:30:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44733,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions\/44733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}