Josip Funda

World Bank, Chief Economist

Josip Funda is an economist with over two decades of expertise in macroeconomics, fiscal policy, and economic development. Since joining the World Bank in 2018, he has managed various projects, including the establishment of a new wage setting system for the public sector, policy lending in response to the COVID-19 crisis, and advisory support to the Croatian Government on the formulation of the National Development Strategy and the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. Prior to his tenure at the World Bank, Mr. Funda served as Head of the Real Sector and Budget Analysis Division at the Croatian National Bank and worked as an economist within the Fiscal Policies Division of the European Central Bank (ECB). Funda holds an MA in Economics from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and he took many professional courses in the Joint Vienna Institute, Bank of England’s Center for Central Banking Studies, IMF Institute – Washington, Fed New York, etc.