In accordance with the basic ECPD founding and statutory documents, the ECPD Executive Director has, inter alia, the following functions: to represent the Center as a legal person and to administer and coordinate the activities of the Center; to manage the Secretariat of the Center; to establish consultative bodies which are necessary for the fulfillment of the work program of the Centre; to direct the implementation of the work program and approve the expenses provided for in the budget for this purpose; to negotiate and conclude agreements with the relevant national, regional and international institutions and organizations relating to the activities of the Center. The first ECPD Executive Director was Dr. Zvonimir Knežević, former Minister of Education in the Government of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the first session of the ECPD Council, on the occasion of the meeting of the University for Peace, held in Brasilia (Brasil), in February 1989, Dr Negoslav P. Ostojić, an expert in international economic relations and development, was appointed the ECPD Executive Director. By the decision of the ECPD Council at its meetings held in Paris on November 2, 1995, and in Dubrovnik, in 2001, Dr Ostojić was reappointed the ECPD Executive Director with the next term of six years. On October 28, 2007, pursuant to Decision, brought by the ECPD Council, Dr Ostojić was reappointed ECPD Executive Director for the period of the six years.  

Negoslav P. OSTOJIC, Executive Director of the European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD).

Education: B.A, M.A, Ph.D in International Economics, University of Belgrade.

Appointments: Director, RCCDC Agency for Economic Cooperation Among Developing Countries, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Editor-in-chief of the International Economic Journal, Development and South-South, Ljubljana; General Coordinator of the World Scientific Banking Meeting (WSBM), Dubrovnik; Adviser, Institute for International Scientific, Educational, Cultural and Technical Cooperation at the Republic of Serbia (IISECTC hereafter), Belgrade; President of "Crvena Zvezda"(tran. Red Star) Chess club, Belgrade.

 

Publications include: Debt and Development, (ECPD), Belgrade; International Financing of Economic Development, (WSBM), Belgrade; Doing Business with Yugoslavia, (RCCDC), Ljubljana; Yugoslav Potentials for Scientific and Technical Co-operation, (RCCDC), Ljubljana; Directory, Corporate Research, Consulting and Engineering, (IISECTC), Belgrade; Small and Medium-Size Enterprises in Developing Countries, (RCCDC), Ljubljana; SMEDC, Technical Technological Development Marketing, (RCCDC), Ljubljana; Francois Perroux-l'homme et l'oeuvre (1903-1987), (ECPD); Future of International Monetary, Financial and Trade Cooperation for Development, Dragoslav Avramovic and Negoslav P. Ostojic (WSBM/ECPD), Belgrade; International Economic Trends and Policies. Their Effects on Eastern European Economies, Dragoslav Avramovic and Negoslav P. Ostojic (WSBM/ECPD), Belgrade; Long-Term Effects of Economic Sanctions on the Economy and Society of FR of Yugoslavia, in International Perspective (Comparative Experiance), Dragoslav Avramovic and Negoslav P. Ostojic (ECPD), Belgrade; Financial and Banking System of Yugoslavia, Eds. Milutin Cirovic and Negoslav Ostojic, (RCCDC), Ljubljana; Privatization in the Economies of Transition, Eds. Norman Scott and Negoslav P. Ostojic (ECPD), Belgrade; Experiences and Results of Privatization in the Economies in Transition, Eds. Norman Scott and Negoslav P. Ostojic, (ECPD), Belgrade; Recent Lessons From Transition and Privatization, Problems of Institutions and Corporate Governance, Eds. Norman Scott and Negoslav P. Ostojic (ECPD), Belgrade; Sustainable Strategy of the Ecological State of Montenegro, Eds. Paul-Marc Henri, and Negoslav P. Ostojic (ECPD), Belgrade; Strategy of the Long-term Sustainable Development of the Municipalities of Novi Pazar, Sjenica and Tutin, Negoslav P. Ostojić (ECPD), Belgrade The Region of South East Europe, Recent Economic Development – Crisis – Exit Strategy, Academician Vladimir Stipetić, Prof. Dr Negoslav Ostojić and Prof. Dr Tihomir Domazet, as well as numerous articles in the field of economics, international relations, banking, financing and contemporary management.

Memberships: Society of International Development, Rome and Scientific Society of Economists of Serbia and Montenegro, etc.