Visiting Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of NY and Senior Scholar at LIS. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He was Senior Economist in the Research Department of the World Bank for almost 20 years and was Senior Advisor at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2003-2005). He has taught at the University of Maryland (2007-2013) and Johns Hopkins University (1997-2007).