CURRICULUM VITAE

Anita Angelovska Bezhoska

Anita Angelovska Bezhoska assumed office of Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia in May 2018. She has been a Governor for the Republic of North Macedonia on the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and member of the Steering Committee of the Vienna Initiative 2, as representative of the six countries from the Southeast European region that are not yet members of the European Union (EU). She has been a member of the SEPA Committee chaired by the Director-General of the DG Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the EC

She assumed office of Governor after almost twelve years of work experience in the National Bank, first as a chief economist, and almost eight years after, as a vice-governor in charge of the monetary policy, research and statistics. She was also an Alternate Governor for the Republic of Macedonia on the Board of Governors of the IMF. By the end of 2019, she was a member of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel.

Prior to joining the central bank team, she worked at the IMF in Washington DC, USA, for two years as an economist in the European Department and in the Fiscal Affairs Department. At the same time, she was a member of several IMF negotiation missions for signing agreements with IMF member countries. Since 2006, she has continuously been engaged as an expert in the IMF teams for providing technical assistance to several countries in Europe and beyond.

She started her career in 1996 as an expert associate on the financial system in the Ministry of Finance, where she spent eight years of her working career holding various positions. Among other things, as a head of the project for establishing a treasury system in our country and then as the first manager of the Treasury within this Ministry, she made an exceptional contribution to the implementation of the key reforms in the public finance system in the country such as introduction of a treasury single account, development of cash management and forecasting, promotion of budgetary accounting, development of treasury securities market and promotion of budget reporting in line with international standards. Her contribution to the development of public finances in our country was acknowledged with an award granted by the US Embassy in our country in 2004.

During 2003 and 2004, she served as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance responsible for the interdepartmental coordination within the Ministry, coordinating the processes related to the European integration, budget reforms and negotiations with international financial institutions. Moreover, in 2004, she was a head of the team preparing our country for the first credit rating.

She has authored multiple expert and research papers in the area of ​​monetary policy and macroeconomic policy in general, as well as papers in the area of ​​fiscal policy and public finance management. During her career, she has been engaged as a lecturer by many domestic and international educational and scientific institutions, and has been invited to take active participation in numerous prestigious international conferences.

In 2015, she defended her doctoral dissertation Coordination of the Monetary and Fiscal Policies in the Republic of Macedonia, at the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia. She holds a master's degree and a bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Economics in Skopje, being recognized as one of the top three students in her generation. She has attended numerous trainings and specialization courses in the USA, Europe and Japan in the field of macroeconomics.

She was born in Sweden in 1971. She is a wife and mother of three children.