The Serbian parliament elected on July 28 Dejan Soskic as the new governor of the National Bank of Serbia for a six-year mandate.

All 129 present MPs voted in favor of electing Soskic.

Parliament earlier adopted a decision to end the mandate of Radovan Jelasic, who handed his resignation on March 23, 2010, for personal reasons.

Soskic was nominated for the position by President Boris Tadic.

Dejan Soskic was born in Belgrade in 1967. He graduated from university in 1989, gained a Master's degree in 1993 and a PhD in 1999 at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade.

He lectured undergraduate and postgraduate classes in the United States: Financial Market and Institutions, Financial Management and International Business and Economy at the University of Nebraska in Omaha.

During 2002 he was a guest lecturer at the universities in New Haven, Rhode Island and Berkeley in the U.S.

He specialized in the field of financial markets at universities in the U.S. three times (1994, 1998 and 2002) and in the Swiss National Bank (2001).