Siniša Mali to be new mayor of Belgrade

Siniša Mali to be new mayor of Belgrade

BELGRADE -- Siniša Mali, who currently heads the interim council in the capital city, will be new mayor of Belgrade, Tanjug learned from the Serb Progressive Party (SNS).

Mali will be elected at Thursday's session of the Belgrade City Assembly. His deputy will be Andreja Mladenović of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS).

On Wednesday, the assembly held its first session to verify mandates of new councilors, and elected the assembly president, Nikola Nikodijević, of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SNS).

The new city parliament will have five councilor groups: the coalition gathered around the SNS will have 63, the DS 21, the SPS-JS 10, the DSS 9, and the PUPS 6, while one councilor from the Democratic Party (DS) will act independently.

Mali holds a portfolio manager license, granted by the Securities Commission of the Republic of Serbia, and the title of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Between 1995 and 1997, the 42-year-old worked for Deloitte & Touche Central Europe in Belgrade, and was head of that consulting firm in Prague from 1999 to 2001.

He worked at the Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) investment bank in New York from May to September 1998, and served as assistant minister of privatization at the ministry of economy and privatization from January to July 2001, and director of the Public Tender Center at the Privatization Agency from July 2001 to October 2003.

Mali was general manager at the NCA Investment Group from September 2005 to 2008, and since 2004 he offered consulting services in the fields of purchase and sale of companies, financial and business consolidation and privatization.

Since January...