Ante Babic

Experience

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  Economics Institute Zagreb

  Sept 1994 - Dec 2003

  Research Assistant to Research Fellow

  Participated in a number of research projects and wrote a number of books and research articles.During 1994-2003 intensively engaged in scientific research in economics. Wrote several books, about 50 scientific research papers (and presented on Conferences and seminars both in Croatia and abroad), and several popular articles. Major focus were on international economics (balance of payments, exchange rate, FDI), finance (banking), macroeconomics (macroeconomic policy and macroeconomic modelling), and recently on sustainable development. Show less

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  Croatian national bank

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2003

  Head of Unit for Balance of Payments and Exchange rate

  • Created and wrote Annual report, quarterly and monthly bulletins of CNB (especially the international environment and international transactions); • wrote research and policy papers (e.g. background paper on capital account liberalization in Croatia for the revision of the Foreign Exchange Law); • testified before the Monetary Policy committee; • created methodology and take part in balance of payments, exchange rate and monetary policy forecasts; • negotiated with IMF and World Bank; • created and managed the research projects (such as Indicators of currency crises, determinants of FDI, or macroeconometric model of Croatia); • talked to delegations of foreign investment banks;• run the unit for balance of payments and exchange rate (consisting of three researchers) within the Research department Show less

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  Croatian Exporters Association

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2014

  Founder & vice-president

  Government relations, Strategy and Business Development, Head of the committee that gives the "Golden Key" award for excellence in exporting, International relations, Relations with similar European and international organizations, Economic expert support - chief economist

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  Government of the Republic of Croatia

  Jan 2004 - Jul 2005

  State secretary for development strategy and economic adviser to Prime Minister

  • Designed economic policies of the Government – especially economic development and EU accession. • Drawing strategy on economic aspects of EU accession and Government position for EU negotiations, especially for the Chapters 1-5; 8-10; 13-18; 20-22; 25-28▪ Participated in earl y EU negotiations for the Chapters 1-5; 8-10; 13-18; 20-22; 25-28 until the team was formalized in late 2005; briefed Chief negotiator and teams for the Chapters 1-5; 8-10; 13-18; 20-22; 25-28▪ Started the work on the National development plan of the Republic of Croatia – basis of EU funding (pre-accession and accession), Regional Operating Plans, Sectoral Operating Plans etc. – first National Development Plan 2005-2009 finished end of 2004.• Management and supervision policies as well as strategy in state-owned enterprises.• Design and operation plan for Croatian Investment and Export Promotion Agency (with mr. Padraic White, former president of Irish development agency IDA and FIAS consultant). • Founding of first Croatian exporters association which on its first assembly had 1000 exporters covering more than 65% of total exports.• Design and founding of Government Committee for Exports and Investment.• Developed promising relationships with Japan and USA, Australia and Canada.• Participated in negotiations with IMF over Stand-by arrangement with Croatia and their regular missions.• Worked closely with World Bank, and participated in the preparations of Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) and Programmatic Adjustment Loan (PAL) for Croatia. Show less

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  Center for International Development Ltd

  Jan 2008 - Nov 2016

  Senior expert & Chief Risk Officer 2008-2010; Chief Sustainability Officer 2011-2016

  ▪ assisting Montenegrin Environment Protection Agency (EPA) in preparing Second report on Climate Change within a UNDP project ▪ internationalization and global strategy for several export oriented small and medium-sized companies▪ macroeconomic analysis and forecasts for the South-East Europe region;▪ sectoral analysis and forecasts for the South-East Europe region;▪ currency analysis and forecasts for the South-East Europe region ;▪ first macroeconometric model of Croatian economy▪ macroeconometric model of Montenegrin economy▪ education and in-house training of Reiffeisen bank▪ consulting Croatian Investment and Export Promotion Agency in formulating its long-term strategy and strategic business plan within the project “Institutional and capacity building of Croatian Investment Promotion Agency” financed by Swedish government agency SIDA;▪ consulting USAID and its partner HUP (Croatian employers’ association), and leading the Tax reform project in Croatia;▪ consulting USAID and its local partners (regional development agencies, counties) on capacity building and certification for foreign investment promotion based on sectoral analysis and formulation of foreign investment promotion strategies;▪ consulting Đuro Đaković Free zone Slavonski Brod on formulating business strategy within the CARDS 2003 program Show less

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  ZelenJava.org

  Jan 2011 - Nov 2016

  Founder and President

  Organization for sustainable development and green economic and business.Project co-manager, Co-founder and President of Sustainable development NGO ZelenJava• Promoting green and sustainable development• Managing green and sustainable development projects• Co-author and Co-producer of TV-show, web, Twitter and FB page ZelenJava

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  Project EUforija

  Mar 2012 - Nov 2016

  Project idea, Project development & Project management

  ▪ Project of series of monthly one-day conferences on preparing Croatian entrepreneurs for the EU accession on July 1st 2013.▪ Research and presentation (moderating)▪ Combining EU experts, experts from Countries that acceded before (e.g. Slovenia, Poland, and Hungary), practitioners and domestic experts.▪ Significant media coverage of the project, on average more than 70 interested participants per conference.▪ New rounds of EUforija in Montenegro 2014 and Serbia 2015

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  Foreign Investor's Council Croatia

  Aug 2013 - Sept 2015

  Secretary General

  Improving business climate in Croatia.

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  DG EUROSTAT D3 Excessive Deficit Procedure 2

  Dec 2016 - May 2018

  Desk officer for Cyprus and EFSI
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  DG EUROSTAT, European Commission

  May 2018 - May 2019

  Statistical Officer - Energy Statistics processes and projects

  Energy Union, Energy security, Gas, Trade and stocks of fuels, Energy poverty, energy statistics data gathering, analysis and projections

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  European Commission DG ENER

  Jun 2019 - now

  Senior Policy Officer

  1. DG Energy data collections - weekly oil prices, monthly oil prices and costs, annual oil consumption structure, from the end of 20192. Prepared the DG ENER data collections for BREXIT, analyse the rules and regulations from the BREXIT agreement, decide on how data for the UK will be presented in the collection, solve a number of problems with IT services and the Member States, as well as prioritise and organize delivery from February 1st, 2020.3. Energy Price and Cost Report and Staff Working Document. These are documents accompanying biannually the State of the Energy Union report.4. Macroeconomics of the Energy Union modelling project.5. Reference scenario for energy policy up to 2050.6. Cross-border carbon tax & energy taxation directive (ETD) review.7. Recovery program - participated from the beginning in design, analysis and communication of Recovery package. 8. Sustainable finance Show less