
Djordjija Petkoski
Djordjija Petkoski is Lead Specialist at the World Bank and the head of the Business, Competitiveness, and Development team at the World Bank Institute. Since joining the World Bank in 1992, Mr. Petkoski has focused on privatization and restructuring, corporate governance, corporate responsibility, anti-corruption, and leadership and values, with work experience in the Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in the early 1990's and a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979-80. He has published extensively on issues of strategic management of complex technical, economic and social systems. He is author or co-author of 15 books and over 120 articles. His publications include "Stability Analysis of Large-scale Economic Systems Which Have a Multi-time Scale," in Applied Decision Analysis and Economic Behavior (1984); "Knowledge-based Systems for Robustness Analysis of Large-Scale Economic Systems," in Systems Theoretical Methods in Economic Modeling (1991); and "Emilija: Harvard Business School Case Study No. 9597-053" (1997). He has delivered lectures at leading universities and international organizations around the world. He teaches a course on Corporate Responsibility and Ethics at Wharton Business School jointly with Professor Laufer. He is also serving on the Executive Advisory Board of the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, the Wharton School, and is a member of the Private and Public, Scientific, Academic, and Consumer Food Policy Committee at Harvard University. Before coming to the World Bank, Mr. Petkoski was the Director of the International Post-Graduate School in Large Scale Systems and Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. A Macedonian national, Mr. Petkoski received his Master's degree in Public Administration at Kennedy School of Governance, Harvard University, Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Zagreb, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade. He has also completed the Harvard Executive Development Program.










































