Ivo Perišin

Ivo Perišin (4 July 1925 – 30 October 2008) was a Croatian economist, politician and academician. He held various senior governmental posts in the Socialist Republic of Croatia in the 1970s and was mayor of Split, Croatia from 1965 to 1967.

Ivo Perišin
6th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament^[a]
In office April 1974 – 8 May 1978
Prime Minister	Jakov Sirotković
Preceded by	Jakov Blažević
Succeeded by	Jakov Blažević (as President of the Presidency) Jure Bilić (as Speaker of Parliament)
President of the Executive Council of SR Croatia
In office December 1971 – April 1974
President	Jakov Blažević
Preceded by	Dragutin Haramija
Succeeded by	Jakov Sirotković
54th Mayor of Split
In office 1965–1967
Preceded by	Ante Zelić
Succeeded by	Jakša Miličić
Personal details
Born	4 July 1925 Kaštela,[1] Kingdom of SCS (now Croatia)
Died	30 October 2008 (aged 83) Zagreb,[1] Croatia
Political party	League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Alma mater	University of Zagreb University of Belgrade
Profession	Economist
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^a The Speaker of the Parliament was the head of state of SR Croatia between 6 February 1953 and 8 May 1974.

In 1949, Perišin graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Economics.[1] He continued studies at the University of Belgrade, and defended his doctoral thesis at the Belgrade Faculty of Economics in 1959.[2]

From 1956 he was a professor of economics at the University of Zagreb.[1] From 1965 to 1967 he was the Mayor of Split.[1] He served as the governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia from 1 November 1969 to 31 December 1971. He was President of the Assembly of SR Croatia from 1974 to 1978.

He was admitted as full member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (today Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts) on 17 May 1990.

References

1. Ninoslav Kopač (2012). Svjedok histerije. Zagreb: Serb Democratic Forum. p. 191. ISBN 978-953-57313-2-0.
2. "akademik Ivo Perišin, Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti". hazu.hr. Archived from the original on 21 September 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2011.