Ivana Vukorepa is Professor of Labour and Social security Law at the Faculty of Law University of Zagreb, where she works since 2004. She completed LL.B. studies at the University of Zagreb in 1999, while LL.M. at the College of Europe in 2001. In 2002 she did the Croatian Barr exam. From 2007 to 2008 she was Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Georgetown University Law Center. In 2011 she earned her doctoral degree in legal sciences at the University of Zagreb.  She is proficient user in English, independent user in German, good user in French and basic user in Italian.

Since 2004, she works at the Departement for Labour and Social Security Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. Before that, she used to work in the law office as law trainee and in the Croatian Ministry for European Integration as expert associate and head of division. From 2005 to 2012 In the Negotiations for the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the EU she was Head of the Working group for negotiating chapter “Freedom of movement for workers”.

She has been actively participating in national and international conferences and seminars, as well as scientific research in the field of labor and social security law topics and free movement of workers. In social security law she has a particular interest in pensions. She has been the author and co-author of scientific articles and books. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal “Revija za socijalnu politiku” (since 2010) and the journal “Labor” (since 2023), a newly founded journal of the International Society for Labor and Social Security Law. She is also a member of the editorial board of national correspondents of the “European Labor Law Journal” (since 2009). She participates in the work of several professional associations: she is a member of the Croatian Association for Labor Law and Social Security (since 2004), the European Institute of Social Security (since 2011), and the European Network for Research on Supplementary Pensions (since 2022).

She collaborates as a professional advisor and collaborator on several research projects and to the European independent experts’ networks such as: ESPN in the field of social policy (from 2014 to 2018), MoveS in the field of fee movement of workers, posting of workers and social security coordination (from 2018) and ECE in the field of labour law, employment and labour market policies (since 2020).

During her graduate studies, she received several awards: the dean’s award (1997), the rector’s award (1999), and the award of the Pace University School of Law Institute for International Commercial Law (1999). In 2022, she received acknowledgment of the Croatian Pension Insurance Institute (HZMO) for her exceptional contribution to the development of the pension system of the Republic of Croatia and HZMO.

She is registered in the register of scientists of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, number 258330. Other scientific profiles and numbers:

– CROSBI: https://www.bib.irb.hr:8443/pregled/profil/29726;

– CroRIS: https://www.croris.hr/crosbi/searchByContext/2/1457;

– Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dFdnoQsAAAAJ&hl=hr&oi=ao;

– ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6759-9992.