Mart Sorg

Mart Sorg
Professor of Money and Banking, Head of Institute of Finance and Accounting, University of Tartu, Estonia
CURRICULUM VITAE
Institution: University of Tartu in Estonia, Institute of Finance and Accounting
2. Position: Professor of Money and Banking
3. Date of birth: 17.05.1943
4. Education: 
1967, University Diploma, University of Tartu, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, speciality: finance and credit;
1973, Ph.D (Finance) from the University of Tartu; 
1989, Dr.Sc (Finance) from the Leningrad Institute of Finance (now: St. Peterburg University of Economics and Finance) "Theoretic Aspects of Bank Credit and their Use in the Agrarian Sector".
5. Research and professional experience:
    ● Office of the State Bank of the USSR, loan officer, 1962-1967;
    ● Head of the Dept Planning and Finance in a Regional Agricultural Office, 1967-1975;
    ● University of Tartu, Senior Lecturer, 1975-1980;
    ● University of Tartu, Associate Professor, 1980-1990;
    ● University of Tartu, Professor, 1990-up to the present;
Research training at the Bank of Finland (1990, 1991), Bentley College, USA (1993), Uppsala University, Sweden (1994), Åbo Akademi (1996), University of Greifswald, Germany (2003, 2004).
6. Research-administrative experience:
    ● Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, 1990-1993;
    ● Chairman of the Counsel for the Defence of Doctor's Degrees of Economics, University of Tartu, 1990-1994;
    ● Vice Dean of Science, University of Tartu, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, 1989-1990, 1996-1998;
    ● Head of Institute of Finance and Accounting, University of Tartu, 1999-up to present;
    ● Member of the Academic Board of the Estonian Institute of Economics, 1991-2001;
    ● Member of the Counsel for the Defence of Doctor's Degrees, Estonian University of Agriculture, 1991-2005;
    ● Academic Board Member of University of Tartu, 1990-1993, 1995-2001.
    ● Member of the Board of the Bank of Estonia (central bank), 1990-1998;
    ● Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Estonia (central bank), 1998-up to present;
7. Research fields: monetary systems and monetary policy of a transition country; banking system reconstruction and developing a proper structure for a transition country; banking risks and banking crises in transition economy; adjustment of a transition economy and its involment into global economy; economic education and economics in transition