ARHIVANALITIKA is a consulting company based in Zagreb, Croatia. It was founded in 2003 by Velimir Šonje, who specialises in macroeconomic analysis, forecasting and finance.
OUR CLIENTS
Our clients are Croatian Banking Association, Croatian Employers’ Association, Foreign Investors’ Concul Croatia, international consulting companies such as the US-based Financial Markets International Inc. and Chemonics, as well as private sector clients – banks, asset managers and large corporations. Mr. Šonje worked for international financial institutions (the IMF, the World Bank) as a short-term advisor.
OUR PUBLICATIONS
We are running the most influential economic blog in Croatia, Ekonomski lab. It is available in Croatian only at our home page, with free access. We have 15 to 20 thousand unique visitors per month.
WHO WE ARE AND HOW WE WORK
ARHIVANALITIKA has two company directors – Velimir Šonje and Amina Ahec Šonje. Our extensive knowledge of the local expert base enables us to put together the most efficient teams of independent professionals from the fields of macroeconomics, finance, education and IT. We invest a lot of time in understanding clients’ needs. We believe in thorough preparations, clear goal setting, data and analysis.
Velimir Šonje graduated in economics in 1990 and earned his M.B.A. from the joint program of Zagreb and Florida State University in 1993. He served as Executive Director for the Research and Statistics Area in the Croatian National Bank (1995-2000), Board Member of Raiffeisenbank Austria d.d. Zagreb (2000-2003), and Chairman of supervisory boards of Raiffeisen Pension Fund Management Company and Raiffeisen Investment Fund Management Company (2002 and 2003). He was also a partner and CEO of ICF Invest – an investment fund management company in Croatia (2007-2008). During his consulting career, Mr Šonje has written and advised extensively in the fields of macroeconomic and financial research, financial development, and financial regulation. In particular, he led the project of developing securitisation regulation in Croatia, advised pension fund management companies on continuation of pension reforms and private sector clients on asset management strategies. He occasionally works as a short-term consultant to the World Bank in the area of finance. He was involved in policy and regulatory design, writing and presenting strategic policy documents, such as national development plans, as well as plans for reform in the fields of finance, better regulation and professional services. He worked on projects in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia and the UK. Mr Šonje is currently active in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he serves as Co-Lead of USAID FINRA project covering deposit insurance and bank restructuring. Mr Šonje is one of the most influential economic analysts and commentators in Croatia and South East Europe.
Amina Ahec Šonje graduated in economics in 1989 and earned her PhD in economics from the University of Zagreb in 2002. During 1990-1991 she was a financial analyst in the Department for Economic Analysis and Planning in Končar Electrical Industries Inc. She started as a teaching assistant in Mathematics and Operation Research at the Faculty of Economics (University of Zagreb). From 1992 till the end of 2003, Mrs Ahec Šonje worked as a researcher at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, and in 2002 she became the Head of Department for Business Cycle Research. She has developed the CROLEI forecasting index and dealt with econometric modelling, application of growth theories in transition countries, and theories of currency and banking crises. She has also developed an early warning system for currency and banking crises in Croatia as part of the project for the Croatian National Bank. During her research career, Mrs Ahec Šonje served as an advisor to the Croatian Employers Association (2001-2014) and as a consultant for the World Bank Representative Office in Croatia (1998). Since 2004, she has been teaching a group of economic courses as a full-time professor at ZSEM – Zagreb School for Economics and Management.Mrs Ahec Šonje was an Associate Dean for the Undergraduate Program at ZSEM (2011-2014), and the Head of Department of Economics at ZSEM (2004-2017). From 2017 – autumn 2018 she worked as a full-time professor and Associate Dean for Research and Development at EFFECTUS – University College for Law and Finance. On a regular basis, Mrs Ahec Šonjeis engaged as a member of expert panel by the IFO Institute.
CONTACTS
Address: Ivana Kukuljevića 32, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
vsonje@arhivanalitika.hr
amina@arhivanalitika.hr
mobile +385 91 5317 461, + 385 91 4566 43