Southeast Europe Management Forum on September 19th and 20th

(Aleksandar Vlahovic and Milos Bugarin)

Southeast Europe Management Forum, which will be an occasion for business leaders to discuss problems in functioning of the economy and competitiveness in the region, will be held in Belgrade on September 19th and 20th, President of the Serbian Association of Economists (SES) Aleksandar Vlahovic announced.

Regional business leaders will be considering the problems of restructuring, financial management and HR management in companies, Vlahovic said, adding that there would be more than 220 participants in the Forum.

The Forum will gather high state officials and business leaders from Serbia and the region, who will together try to find solutions to the problems typical for the post-transition period and the difficulties faced by the economies of regional countries.

Organizers of the Forum are SES, Croatian Association of Economists and Bled Business School, in cooperation with the Serbian Chamber of Commerce (SCC), under the patronage of the Serbian government.

Vlahovic said that the special guest on the first day of Southeast Europe Management Forum would be Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, whereas the second day would be opened by Minister of Finance and Economy Mladjan Dinkic.

(Toplica Spasojevic and Dragan Djuricin)

Among the participants who have confirmed their presence are also Chief Economist of the Europe and Central Asia Region of the World Bank Indermit Gil, Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic, businessman Miodrag Kostic and others.

Vlahovic said that the Forum would be an opportunity to hear the experiences of other countries in the region and consider problems in the economy, adding that they were similar in almost all countries.

- The way in which to consolidate the economy and, thus, avoid recession is of essential importance for the countries of Southeast Europe - Vlahovic stressed.

Dragan Djuricin, selector of the Forum, noted that all countries of ex-Yugoslavia were experiencing a problem with competitiveness and macroeconomic stability.