Leonarda Srdelić
📧 leonarda.srdelic@ijf.hr
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Leonarda Srdelić

Researcher with years of experience in climate risk modeling, analytics, and econometric tool development for the financial sector and public institutions.
Special interest in climate policy, public finance, and the macroeconomic impact of climate change.

Work Experience

Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb | Feb 2024 - Present
Research Fellow
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ATD SOLUCIJE, d.o.o. | 11/2023 - 1/2024
Climate Risk Modeling Advisor
Croatian National Bank | 7/2020 - 10/2023
Analyst
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Education

PhD in Economics | Feb 2022
Facoltà di Economia "Richard M. Goodwin", Siena
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MSc Economics | 2017
Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb 🔗Web
BSc Economics | 2016
Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb

Professional Trainings

IMF, Washington DC (2025)
Climate in Macroeconomic Frameworks (on-site)
GARP (2024)
Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) certificate
IMF Institute, JVI, NASBA, DataCamp (2019–2025)
Online trainings in climate finance, macroeconomics, econometrics, and programming
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IMF Institute for Capacity Development (ICD), Online Courses (2025):
  • Inclusive Growth - Fiscal Policy
  • Projecting Public Debt - The Public Debt Dynamics Tool
IMF: Macroeconomics of Climate Change (2022–2023):
  • Green Public Finance
  • Climate Risks for the Financial Sector
  • Economics of Adaptation
  • Transitioning to Net-zero
  • Mitigation Strategies
  • Science, Economics, and Policies
Output Decomposition and Forecasting (2022)
Irina Panovska, Croatian Science Foundation
Joint Vienna Institute (IMF), Online Courses (2020–2022):
  • Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics
  • Macroeconomic Forecasting
  • Foreign Direct Investment Policies
  • Macroeconomic Diagnostics
  • Econometric Modelling and Forecasting
  • Financial Programming and Policies, Part 2: Program Design
  • Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts & Analysis
NASBA (2020):
  • Learning VBA in Excel
DataCamp & LinkedIn Learning (2019):
  • Learning the R Tidyverse
  • Introduction to Data Science
  • Programming Foundations: Fundamentals
  • Python Essential Training

Conferences

Point Zero Forum | Zurich, May 5–7, 2024
GFTN & Swiss State Secretariat for International Finance
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Ekonomski susreti | Rijeka, Nov 15–16, 2024
Scientific Society of Economists
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15th Young Economists Seminar to the 28th Dubrovnik Economic Conference | Dubrovnik, 2022
Croatian National Bank
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Scholarships

PEGASO Scholarship for Research | Nov 2017 - Jul 2020
Funded by Universities of Siena, Florence and Pisa.
Scholarship for the Best Full-Time Student-Parent | 2016
Funded by the Croatian NGO 'Hrvatska može bolje'.

Skills

Programming: Python, R, VBA Excel, LaTeX, Git, GitHub, Jekyll
Data analysis: Analytical and econometric methods
Data: Work with macro, micro, and firm-level datasets
Languages: English, Italian

Selected Publications

Srdelić, L., Davila-Fernandez, M. (2025): Demographic transition and economic growth
Srdelić, L., Barišić, R. (2025): Does economic growth reduce or increase pollution?
Srdelić, L., Švaljek, S. (2024): EU ETS market trends analysis
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Srdelić, L., Davila-Fernandez, M. (2024): International trade and economic growth in Croatia

Selected Projects

LIFT: Leveraging Inter-Firm Transactions, OECD
Analysis of VAT transaction networks for monitoring supply chain shocks and targeting economic policy.
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