Marko Škreb

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Marko Škreb (born 8 May 1957 in Zagreb) is a Croatian economist who served as Governor of the Croatian National Bank from 1996 to 2000. He studied economics at the University of Zagreb, graduating in 1980, and earned his doctorate in 1990 after studies at the Boulder Economics Institute and the University of Pittsburgh. He began teaching at the Zagreb Faculty of Economics in 1991 and in 1992 became director of the analysis department at the Croatian National Bank. In 1995 he was named economic adviser to President Franjo Tuđman, and in 1996 he was appointed Governor of the Croatian National Bank, a position he held until 2000 when Željko Rohatinski succeeded him. After leaving the bank, Škreb worked with the IMF and World Bank and advised central banks in Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and participated in projects in Montenegro, Kosovo, Romania and Ukraine. In September 2007 he became chief economist at Privredna banka Zagreb, the second largest bank in Croatia and part of the Intesa Sanpaolo group.