Professor Ivana Grgurev was born in Zagreb, where she finished primary and secondary school and graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1997. She was awarded the Rector’s Award in 1996. She obtained her master’s degree in 2002 in the postgraduate scientific study of Commercial Law, and defended her doctoral thesis in 2006, also at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb (topic: “Prohibition of Discrimination in Labour Law”). She was first employed as a junior assistant at the Department of Labour and Social Security Law in July 1997, advanced to the rank of assistant in May 2002 and senior assistant in November 2006. She was appointed to the rank of assistant professor in November 2008, associate professor in October 2012 and full professor in February 2018. She spent two semesters (2000/2001 and 2003/2004) as a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Law in Vienna. Other shorter study visits include the Institute of Maritime Law (Rhodes, Greece, University of Heidelberg and ERA (Trier, Germany) and CEU (Budapest, Hungary). Prof. Grgurev has published numerous scientific and professional papers. She has presented papers at many professional and scientific conferences. She has participated in several scientific research projects (projects of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, a UNDP project, and Restatement of Labour Law in Europe – headed by Prof. Bernd Waas, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt). She is professionally and socially active in the field of labour and social security law: she participated in the preparation of negotiations with the EU; she was the head of the working group for drafting the first draft proposal of the Maternity and Parental Benefits Act, and a member of the working group for amending that Act in 2022; she was a member of the working group for preparing a draft proposal of the Anti-discrimination Act; she provided training to non-governmental organizations on anti-discrimination law within the framework of a seminar organized at the initiative of the EU: Awareness raising seminar in the areas of non discrimination and equality targeted at civil society organizations; she is a national expert in the European Labour Law Network (now European Centre of Expertise (ECE) in the field of Labour Law, Employment and Labour Market Policies), a member of the Croatian Association for Labour Law and Social Security and Vis Moot Alumni Zagreb. She was a member and president of the Commission for representativeness. She is a member of the National Council for Social Policy, as well as a member of the working group for the preparation of the National plan for the suppression of sexual violence and sexual harassment for the period from 2022 to 2027. She is a member of the editorial board of the Baltic Journal of Law and Politics (since 2012) and Delavci in delodajalci, a Slovenian journal of labour and social security law since 2008. Over the last twenty years, she has taught several courses at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb (in the studies of law, social work and public administration). She was Vice-Dean for teaching at the faculty in the academic years 2015/2016 and 2016/2017. She is proficient in English, German and Italian.

List of published papers: https://www.bib.irb.hr/review/scientists/216840