Personal Data:

•Date of Birth: May 2nd, 1959, Zagreb

•Marital status: Married

Education:

•1990 Ph.D., Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb

•1984 Master’s degree, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb

• 1982 Graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb

Professional Career:

• 2008 Minister of Justice

• 2006-2008 Vice-rector of University of Zagreb

• 2005-2008 Vice dean, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb

• 2006-2008 Principal of the Chair of General History of Law and State, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb

• 2005-2006 Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb

• 2004-2005 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb

• 2003-2004 Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs

• 2002-2003 President of the Economic and Social Council UN (ECOSOC)

• 2001-2002 First Vice-president of the Economic and Social Council UN (ECOSOC)

• 2001-2008 Representative of Croatia on the International Court of Justice in Hague

• 1997-2003 Permanent Representative of Republic of Croatia at the UN, New York

• 1996-1997 Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs

• 1994-1996 Assistant of Foreign Affairs Minister for Multilateral Matters

• 1993-1994 Fulbright’s scholarship at Yale Faculty of Law, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law in Zagreb

• 1992-1993 Assistant of Foreign Affairs Minister for International and Consular Law

• 1991 – Volunteer in The Croatian National Guard (ZNG)

• 1986-1992 Assistant and then Docent, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb

• 1982-1986 Assistant, Institute for Social Research of University of Zagreb

Political career

• Is not and never was a member of any political party

Publications and memberships

• Author or coauthor of 75 scientific and expert works published in Croatia and abroad, of which 9 are books

• Lectured at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studies and research institutions in Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Poland, USA, Slovenia, Turkey and at United Nations

• 2008 – director of Croatian Society for the UN

• 2008- member of Expert committee of European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)

• 2008- member of European Expert Group for Mobility

• 1998-2008 member of American Society of International law

Foreign languages

• English – active, good

• German – active, intermediate

• Italian – active, intermediate