Saša Drezgić (1978) obtained his PhD in 2008 in the field of public finance at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He works at the Faculty of Economics, University of Rijeka, Croatia. From 2002-2008 he was a research assistant and from 2008-2010 senior research assistant. From 2010 – 2015 he was an assistant professor at courses Public finance, Fiscal policy, and Economics and policy of investments. He is full professor since 2021.
In 2006, he was a research fellow at Maxine Levine Goodman College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. During his fellowship and under mentorship of professor Brian Mikelbank he started his PhD program, which he successfully finished at 2008. During 2009 and 2010, he was a visiting fellow at the Global Governance Center at London School of Economics and Political Science.
From 2010, he is also a Vice Editor-in-Chief of Proceedings of Faculty of Economics Journal of business and administration and from 2017 Editor-in-Chief. From 2013 to 2016, he was a Director of Center of local economic development of Faculty of Economics University of Rijeka, which aims to commercialize latest scientific advances and provide matchmaking platform of public and private sector.
From May 2016 until February 2017, he was a Deputy Minister of Finance of the Republic of Croatia. From 2018 he is a Director of Centre for Smart and Sustainable Cities of University of Rijeka. During his academic career, he was a consultant in a number of projects mainly in the field of local economic development. The projects were funded by Croatian Ministry of Science, Education, and Sport, the USAID, UNDP, GIZ and other institutions and donors. He is also an author of more than 40 publications in the field of fiscal policy, local government finance, public investments and infrastructure finance and economic development issues.
