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Alica Wertheimer-Baleti\u0107, F.C.A.<\/strong>, prominent croatian economist and demographer, was born on 10 December 1937 in Vukovar, where she finished her primary and secondary education. She graduated in 1960 at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb, received her Master’s degree in 1964, and her Doctor’s degree in 1965 from the same Faculty. She spent the academic year 1965\/66 at the University of Chicago, USA. At the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb, she was first elected lecturer in 1961, following assistant professor in 1966, subsequently promoted to the post of associate professor in 1972, and finally rounded her career as full professor of Demography in 1976. Between 1968 and 1972, she chaired the Division of Demography at the Institute for Social Research of the University of Zagreb; between 1985 and 1989, she was active as one of the directors of the international postgraduate studies programme entitled Demographic Trends and Population Policies at the Interuniversity Centre of the University of Zagreb in Dubrovnik. Prof. Dr. Wertheimer Baleti\u0107 was, inter alia, the chair of the Scientific Section of Demography of the Yugoslav Statistic Societies\u2019 Union and the head of the Chair of Demography at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb. She participated in many conferences and scientific symposia on population issues both in Croatia and abroad (London, Li\u00e8ge, Windsor (Canada), Prague, Bratislava, Kiev, Helsinki, Florence, J\u00fcvaskyla, Geneva, New York, etc.).
\nProf. Dr. Alica Wertheimer Baleti\u0107 has written 17 books and monographs, among which most worthy of mention are the following: Stanovni\u0161tvo SR Hrvatske \u2013 studije (The Population of the Socialist Republic of Croatia \u2013 Studies), 1971; Ekonomska aktivnost stanovni\u0161tva \u2013 demografski aspekt (The Economic Activity of the Population \u2013 the Demographic Aspect), 1978; Demografija \u2013 stanovni\u0161tvo i ekonomski razvitak (Demography \u2013 Population and Economic Development), 1972 and 1983; Stanovni\u0161tvo Vukovara i vukovarskog kraja (The Population of Vukovar and the Vukovar Surroundings), 1993; and Stanovni\u0161tvo i razvoj (Population and Development), 1999. She has written 170 articles, studies, proceedings\u2019 and other papers, and numerous scientific papers. She has received the Mijo Mirkovi\u0107 Acknowledgement (seven times at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb); the City of Zagreb Award (together with her associates) in 1977; the Bo\u017eidar Ad\u017eija Republic Award for the contribution to the development of demography in 1983; the National Award for Life Achievements in the field of Social Sciences in 2000; the Annales Pilar Acknowledgement for the contribution to the development of demography in Croatia in 2004. She was moreover twice awarded the Medal of the Order of Danica Hrvatska: in 1995, the Ru\u0111er Bo\u0161kovi\u0107 Medal, and in 1996, the Katarina Zrinska Medal. Prof. Dr. Wertheimer Baleti\u0107 is a member of world demographic associations (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population i European Association for Population Studies). She was active as member of editorial staffs and councils of many journals (European Population Journal; Stanovni\u0161tvo \/ Population; Statisti\u010dka revija \/ Statistic Revue; Encyclopaedia moderna; Rad \/ Monographs \u2013 the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Suvremeni ekonomski problemi \/ Contemporary Economic Issues \u2013 the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Acta oeconomico-historica; Sociologija sela \/ Sociology of the Village; Ekonomski pregled \/ Economic Review; Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci \/ Proceedings of the Faculty of Economics and Business in Rijeka, etc.). As a member of the Croatian delegation at the European Conference on Population in Geneva in 1993, she submitted the national report on the population of the Republic of Croatia; furthermore, she was a member of the Croatian delegation at the preparatory meeting for drawing up the final document of the UN Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, held in New York, 4-23 April 1994. As a demography expert, she was a representative of the Republic of Croatia at UN Commission on Population and Developement between 1998 and 2002; at the 33rd Committee Session, held 27-31 March 2000, she was elected Committee Vice-President for one mandatory period.
\nProf. Dr. Wertheimer Baleti\u0107 first became an associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1986, and was subsequently elected full member in 1992. Between 1995 and 2000, she held the post of the Secretary of the Academy\u2019s Department of Social Sciences, whilst between 2001 and 2003, she was a member of the Academy\u2019s Presidency. Since 2004, she has held the post of one of two Academy\u2019s Vice-Presidents. Prof. Dr. Alica Wertheimer Baleti\u0107 was elected member of the Acad\u00e9mie Europ\u00e9ene des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres in Paris in October 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20472,"template":"","vrste_clanova":[96],"razredi":[81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clanovi\/5524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clanovi"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/clanovi"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clanovi\/5524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36604,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clanovi\/5524\/revisions\/36604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"vrste_clanova","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vrste_clanova?post=5524"},{"taxonomy":"razredi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/razredi?post=5524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}