Education:

  • BA in Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Zagreb
  • Postgraduate Studies in International Relations, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
  • Several professional defence courses at the Croatian Ministry of Defence
  • Diplomatic Academy, Zagreb

Professional experience:

  • 2014-2016 – Croatian Ambassador to India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
  • 2010-2013 – Croatian Consul General in Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2008-2010 – Head of the Office of the Croatian President, Zagreb
  • 2006-2008 – Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative to at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Croatia to the UN, New York
  • 2001-2005 – Croatian Ambassador to Turkey, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan
  • 2000-2001 – Assistant National Security Advisor to the Croatian President
  • 1991-2000 – Croatian Ministry of Defence
  • 1986-1991 – Counsellor at the Employment Bureau Privredna Banka Zagreb

Foreign languages:

  • English, Albanian, Turkish, Macedonian, German

Author of two books:

  • “Turska, uvod u povijest, politiku i vanjsku politiku” (Turkey: Introduction to History, Politics and Foreign Policy), Novi Liber, Zagreb (2012)
  • “Indija, temeljne postavke vanjske politike” (India: Fundamental Notions of Foreign Policy), Meandar, Zagreb (2016.)