About

Dejan Kovac is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. 

Center for International Development
Harvard University
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 
Web: Dejan Kovač | Harvard Kennedy School  
email: dejankovac at hks.harvard.edu

Dejan was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Princeton School of Public & International Affairs and Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association. 

My main research interests are International Political Economy, Behavioural Economics and Education Economics. I am particularly interested in the detrimental effects of wars and conflicts on a variety of outcomes: child development, human capital accumulation, health, social values and norms. My past and current research is focused on solving important policy questions in cooperation with several governmental agencies in Croatia including Ministry of Science and Education, Ministry of Veterans, Ministry of Health and Agency for Science and Higher Education. 

In 2022 I worked as a consultant at the World Bank on topics of forced displacement of refugees in Croatia and Bosnia. Link to World Bank video panel:

ECA Talk: Forced Displacement (worldbank.org) 

During the past few years through an NGO in CEE region my work was focused on creation of network of scholars, promoting initiatives on right for information access in public sector and educating general public in order to help build a better functioning democracy in the CEE region. We organise yearly conferences and bring world-class economists to promote market economy in transition countries.