Milan Martin CVIKL was born in Velenje (Slovenia) in 1959. He studied economics and upon graduation in 1983 successfully defended his Master of Science thesis at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics (Slovenia) in 1990 with an input from studies at the Florida State University in 1989 and with the IMF Institute in 1987. He started work in 1983 as a central banker in the National Bank of Slovenia and helped it gain its monetary independence in 1991. Then he was developmental banker and economist with the World Bank between 1991-97 when he worked in the Central and Southeastern European countries. He was the Deputy to and then CFO of the Slovene biggest commercial bank NLB d.d. between 2000-04. Before that acted as Deputy Minister of Finance for public finance during negotiation with the EU 1998-2000 and Minister for European Affairs at the entrance of the Republic of Slovenia into EU in 2004. Then he was MP and President of the Budget Control Committee of the Slovene National Assembly and Secretary General of the Slovene Government between 2008-10. In 2016 he concluded his mandate at the European Court of Auditors (ECA) where he acted at the Dean of the Chamber auditing EU economic and institutional response to the recent financial crisis. He acted as Alternate Board Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and acts from July 2022 as Vice Governor of the Bank of Slovenia – euro system. He is an author of many articles and a couple of books on macroeconomic issues and policies and their coordination.
Keynote lecture: The past messages for the future
