Branko Milanović
Economist and university professor
Branko Milanović is a Serbian-American economist known for research on income distribution and inequality. He is also a former lead economist at the World Bank.
1 summary 22 min of listening
Serbian Born 1953 in Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia
About Branko Milanović
Branko Milanović was born in Belgrade in 1953. He earned his PhD at the University of Belgrade in 1987, with a thesis on economic inequality in Yugoslavia, and published it as a book in 1990. Earlier in his career he worked as a lead economist in research at the World Bank, and he has held visiting professorships at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University. From 2003 to 2005 he was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. Since January 2014 he has been affiliated with the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Luxembourg Income Study. He teaches at the London School of Economics as well. In 2019 he was named to the honorary Maddison Chair at the University of Groningen. His books include The Haves and the Have-Nots.