"At home still unpacked and just arrived from America, but all important, I set out with Goran (Novaković, Minister of Energy) to negotiate wages with the miners in Kolubara." We get there, surrounded by hundreds of dissatisfied and angry people, shouting, threatening, completely unpleasant atmosphere. Goran says that everything will be fine, we are going to negotiate in some tin shed, everyone wants to enter, everyone is getting used to saying something, there is no air in the container-shack, but that's why it smells unpleasantly of brandy. The police are around us, I guess to protect us. I have to admit, it was a very unpleasant situation, although I wasn't scared. That's what my baptism of fire in Serbia looked like. God bless you, right from the International Monetary Fund in Kolubar." This is how Kori Udovički described her new experience in Serbia to two friends in a Belgrade cafe at the beginning of March.
When asked what she specifically does in the expert part of the Government, Kori replied: "Imagine, God gave me the real sector." From September 2001, when she came to Belgrade, until the election for the Minister of Energy and Mining in the Government of Serbia, Kori Udovički worked is a special advisor to the Minister of Finance and Economy for the real sector. In that position, she was responsible for monitoring the work of public enterprises and for the drafting and implementation of the Regulation on the amount of wages in public enterprises. In December 2001, she became a member of the Commission for the Restructuring of Public Enterprises of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, and then set up a project for the restructuring of public enterprises.
Before the invitation to return to Belgrade and join the expert part of the Government of Serbia, Kori Udovički (from 1993 to 2001) worked at the International Monetary Fund. She left the Fund from the position of Chief Economist for the program with Yugoslavia (November 2000 – June 2001). As the chief economist for Yugoslavia, she coordinated the work of sectoral economists, established a database on the real economy and specialized in the analysis of electricity industry problems. She also worked as the chief economist for the program with Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she particularly dealt with the coordination of the structural reform program. In her early years at the International Monetary Fund, she worked on monetary sector problems in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
In December 1999, Cori Udovicki received her doctorate at Yale University with the thesis "Institutional Decentralization and Market Integration: Yugoslavia, 1970-1987". At the same university, she received her master's degree in September 1988. By the way, in June 1984, she graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade.
Cory Udovicki was born on December 4, 1961 in La Paz, Bolivia. He is a Yugoslav citizen. She is married and has three children. He speaks fluent English and Spanish, uses Portuguese in verbal communication and uses French.
Kori Udovički's first statement to the public as a candidate for the Minister of Energy was that the price of electricity still had to rise by 50 percent, and that as a minister he would have a special priority - the restructuring of the Electric Power Company of Serbia.
