Velimir Bole has been employed at the EIPF for over four decades, where he works as a scientific advisor. In the period 1988?1990, he was an economic advisor to the Yugoslav government; in the years 1991?1997 a member of the Council of the Bank of Slovenia; in the years 1992?2002 a member of the Government Economic Council, and from 2000 to 2011 a member of the Council of Experts of the Governor of the Central Bank of Macedonia. Bole regularly participates in preparing forecasts of economic trends and analysis of the government?s economic policy, as well as in economic forecasts for the euro area.