Ms. Mirsada Buric is an expert associate in the Development Office of the Federation Banking Agency (FBA) of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). Over the past four years, she has served as an examiner in the department for the prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing in banks. There, she audited banks in the Federation of B&H. Also, during the last five years she was a teaching assistant at the School of Economics in Sarajevo for a course on International Finance and Marketing. Before the FBA, she served as a senior official in the Department for Coordination of Economic Systems in the Ministry of European Integration of B&H (2000-03). She coordinated the activities of Working and Monitoring groups, dealing with the White Paper of the European Union and monitored the fulfillment of the EU Roadmap requirements. She worked on the creation of an attractive business environment in B&H, along with the building and development of a single economic space. She also led the preparation activities for B&H’s Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU.

Ms. Buric holds a BA in economics (University of Mostar, B&H, 2000), an MA in banking and finance (Giordano Dell’Amore Foundation, Milan, Italy, 2002) and an MA in the tourism industry (Metropolitan University of London, Great Britain, 2006).

During her Humphrey year at Boston University, Ms. Buric will focus on the regulation of financial institutions, with the aim of developing expertise in products offered on financial markets and regulations governing the markets. She intends to use the experience she gains in the U.S. to help create a unified regulator of the financial industry in B&H, which is a necessary precondition for the efficient and effective performance of financial markets.