Branko Milanović (1953), is one of the leading contemporary world economists. He graduated from the Economic Faculty at the University of Belgrade in 1977. and wrote his PhD about economic inequalities in Yugoslavia at the same faculty in 1987. He has been working at the research department of the World Bank in Washington since 1990. At the department that deals with analyzing poverty, inequality and household surveys. He is also a visiting presidential professor at City University of New York Graduate Center and affiliated senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study.
For ten years he has been a visiting scholar at the John Hopkins University, and since 2005 at the University of Maryland and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. He has published numerious articles on measuring inequality and analyzing inequality first in transitioning countries then also about global inequality and globalization.
