Area of Interest:
Risk Management and Insurance, Actuarial Science, Game Theory, Business Logistics, Operations Management and Operations Research
Education:
• Jul 7, 2004 , Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
“Generalization of the Model for Conflicts' Management in Life Insurance”, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla
• Oct 2, 2001 , Master of Science (Msc)
“The Possibilities of Noncooperative Game Theory Application for Finding of Equilibrium in Competitive Conditions”, Postgraduate Study: Management Strategies - Statistical Analysis in Business, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla
• Jul 28, 1997 , Bachelor of Science
Management of Business Processes, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla
Academic Experience:
• 2004 – present, Associate Professor
Department of Decision Making Theory, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla
• 2002 – 2004, Senior Teaching Assistant
Department of Decision Making Theory, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla
• 1998 – 2002, Teaching Assistant
Quantitative Methods in Decision Making, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla
• 1995 – 1998, Student Demonstrator
Quantitative Methods in Decision Making, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla
Other Professional Activities:
• Feb 2006 – present, Member of Management Board
State Insurance Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2001 – Jan 2006, Financial and Actuary Senior Advisor
Lido-osiguranje, Insurance Company, Tuzla
Courses Taught:
• 1995 – present, Faculty of Economics, Business School , Law Faculty, University of Tuzla
Risk Management and Insurance, Quantitative Methods in Decision Making, Operations Management, Fundamentals of Statistics, Business Logistics, Business Decision Making
• 2006/07, Business School , Faculty of Economics, University of Sarajevo
Financial Risk Management
• 2007, Postgraduate Study, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla
Insurance and Nonbanking Financial Institutions
• 2004, Postgraduate Study, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla
Methods and Models of Decision Making, Financial Markets (Insurance Market)
Guest Lectures:
• Impact of the European Integration Process to Development of Insurance Market in Southeastern Europe
Jan 28, 2008, Undergraduate and Graduate Study, New Mexico State University , Las Cruces , USA (ref. Prof. Tim Query)
Jan 24, 2008, Campus of Indiana University-Purdue University , Fort Wayne (IPFW), USA (ref. Prof. Clark Butler)
Nov 8, 2007 , Graduate Study, Temple University , Philadelphia , USA (course RMI 5104 – ref. Prof. Laureen Regan)
Refereed Presentations:
• 2007, Insurance in Southeastern Europe : Former Yugoslavia Countries
Symposium – Financial Globalization, International Insurance Foundation , Washington , DC , USA
• 2007, Calculation of the Policy Reserve in Life Insurance
International Symposium - The Modern Problems of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla
• 2007, Current Situation and Perspectives of Development of the Life Insurance Market in B&H
V International Symposium: Strategies of the Insurance Market Development, Faculty of Economics Beograd & Actuarial Society of Serbia , Vrnjacka Banja , Serbia
• 2006, Conflict Process Management in Function of Improving Organizational Efficiency
Symposium: 30 Years of Faculty of Economics Tuzla/Brcko, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla
• 2006, B&H insurance market and preparing for new standards for solvency
IV International Symposium: The Modern Trends in Development of Insurance Market, Faculty of Economics Beograd & Actuarial Society of Serbia , Vrnjacka Banja , Serbia
• 2005, Specificity and Perspectives of Insurance Market in B&H After New Law Regulative with a Special Focus on Investing of Reserve Assets
III International Symposium: Investment of Insurance Companies' Assets, Faculty of Economics Beograd & Actuarial society of Serbia , Vrnjacka Banja , Serbia
• 2005, Conflicts in Reserve Management of Insurers
XVI International Conference of Insurers and Reinsurers, SorS , Sarajevo
Study Visits:
• April 2007, Insurance institutions in Slovakia and Austria
Study Visit to the Insurance Institutions in the Slovakia and Austria market, Bratislava , Vienna
• Jun 2006, Seminar: International Association of Insurance Supervisors - Core Principles of Insurance
Course Instructor: Marianne Burke – CPA, FSVC and MFEC, Zagreb , Croatia
• Jun 2000, Study Development in Field of Operations Research
University of Pompeu Fabra , Barcelona , Spain
• May 2000, Seminar Tempus JEP Program
University of Macedonia , Thessaloniki , Greece
• Sep 1999, Post Communist Transition and European Integration Processes
Postgraduate School , University of Bologna , Italy
Science-research projects:
• Sep 2007 – Feb 2008, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, 6-month visiting professor
Fox School of Business and Management
Department of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management
Temple University , Philadelphia , PA , USA
Project: Development Possibilities of Risk Management, the Insurance Sector and Actuarial Science in South-East Europe
• Aug 2008 – European Commission in B&H (Kronauer Consulting, Sarajevo )
Terms of References for Twinning project: “ Sustainable Capacity Building of the Insurance Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federation and Republic Srpska Insurance Supervisory Agencies”
Honors and Awards:
• Oct 3, 1997 , Award from University of Tuzla
Accomplishments during study
Professional Memberships:
• Sep 3, 2004 – present, An Authorized Actuary for Federation of B&H
Member of the Management Board of the Actuary Association in B&H
Other Abilities:
Foreign language: English (active), Driving license
Computer skills: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), professional software for decision making support (financial, statistical…)
Publications:
• Textbooks
Zahirovic, Sejfudin, Safet Kozarevic, and Jasmina Okicic, 2008, Quantitative methods in decision making I, Harfograf , Tuzla .
Zahirovic, Sejfudin, and Safet Kozarevic, 2005, Optimization Methods in Business Decision Making: The Fundamentals of Deterministic Modeling , Infograf , Tuzla .
• Published Researsh
Kozarevic, Safet, Laureen Regan, and Robert Gibbons, 2008, The European Union Integration Process and Insurance Market Development: The Case of the Former Yugoslav Countries, International Insurance Foundation, Occasional Paper , 7 ( http://www.iifdc.org/pubs/index.html ).
Kozarevic, Safet, 2007, Calculation of the Policy Reserve in Life Insurance, International Symposium: The Modern Problems of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla, Zbornik radova , 3-19.
Kozarevic, Safet, 2007, Current Situation and Perspectives of Development of the Life Insurance Market in B&H, V International Symposium: Strategies of the Insurance Market Development, Faculty of Economics, Beograd & Actuarial Society of Serbia, Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia, Zbornik radova , 43-59.
Kurtic, Adil, and Safet Kozarevic, 2006, Conflict Process Management in Function of Improving Organizational Efficiency, Economic Review , Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla, 8: 72-87 .
Kozarevic, Safet, 2006, The Insurers' Solvency Controlling, Svijet osiguranja , Zagreb , 4: 29-33.
Kozarevic, Safet, 2006, B&H Insurance Market and Preparing for New Standards for Solvency, IV International Symposium: The Modern Trends in Development of Insurance Market, Faculty of Economics, Beograd & Actuarial Society of Serbia, Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia, Zbornik radova , 12-24.
Kozarevic, Safet, 2005, The Approaches to Solving of Conflict Problem, Economic Review , Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla , 5-6: 111-124.
Kozarevic, Safet, 2005, Specificity and Perspectives of Insurance Market in B&H After New Law Regulative with a Special Focus on Investing of Reserve Assets, III International Symposium: Investment of Insurance Companies Assets, Faculty of Economics, Beograd & Actuarial Society of Serbia, Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia, Zbornik radova , 38-52 .
Kozarevic, Safet, 2005, Conflict in Reserve Management of Insurers, Osiguranje , Zagreb , 5: 61-69.
Šabanovic, Zekerijah, and Safet Kozarevic, 2004, Conflict in Personal Risks Management , Symposium: Challenges of Corporative Management in Process of Economic Transition, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla , Zbornik radova , 125-138 .
Zahirovic, Sejfudin, and Safet Kozarevic, 2004, Generalized Approach to the Conflict Problem , Transition - Journal of Economics and Politics of Transition , Tuzla , 15: 185-203.
Kozarevic, Safet, 2004, Management of the Life Insurance Reserves, Economic Review , Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla , 4: 49-63.
Kapic, Reuf, and Safet Kozarevic, 2004, Financial-accounting Aspect of Insurance Companies' Operating , Transition - Journal of Economics and Politics of Transition , Tuzla , 14: 139-153.
Kozarevic, Safet, 2004, Slow Development of Insurance Sector in B&H , Prizma - Business Magazine , Sarajevo, 5: 60-66.
Umihanic, Bahrija, and Safet Kozarevic, 2003, The Basis of the Risk Management Process in Small Enterprises, Economic Review , Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla , 2: 43 -55.
Zahirovic, Sejfudin, and Safet Kozarevic, 2003, The Model's Concept of Strategic Equilibrium Generating in Competitive Conditions by Noncooperative Games , Economic Review , Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla, 1: 111-119.
Kozarevic, Safet, 2003, Statistical Methods in Insurance, Svijet osiguranja , Zagreb , 1: 47-50.
Nukovic, Admir, and Safet Kozarevic, 2002, Multicriteria Ranking of Micro-financial Institutions , Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla, Zbornik radova , 179-188 .
Kozarevi c, Safet, and Admir Nukovi c, 2002, The Need for Nash Equilibrium Finding in Strategic Interaction Between Enterprises in Competitive Conditions, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla, Zbornik radova , 153-165.
Umihanic, Bahrija, and Safet Kozarevic, 2001, Comparison of the Means of the Populations by Analysis of Variance” , Transition - Journal of Economics and Politics of Transition , Tuzla , 9-10: 49-60.
Fazlovic, Senad, and Safet Kozarevic, 2001, Statistical Control of Quality by Method of the Frequency Distribution Curves , Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla, Zbornik radova , 225-238.
Kozarevic, Safet, 2000, The Fractional Linear Programming in Function of Optimization by Criteria of Profitability, Economy and Productivity, Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla, Zbornik radova , 122-131.
• Reviews of Textbooks
Poslovna prognostika , by Sejfudin Zahirovic, Infograf, Tuzla , 2000 (review published in Business Magazine , Sarajevo , 78-79, November 2000).
Additional Information:
Date of birth: Nov 25, 1973
Place of birth: Živinice, B&H
Married: wife Emira (1979), son Ilham (2007)
