Romea Manojlović graduated at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in 2008 (diploma magma com laude). During the study period she was a student assistant at the Department of General Theory of Law and State and the Department of Administrative Science. She was granted the Istrian County scholarship and in the academic year 2008/09 she received the Rector’s award for the paper Harmonization of Local Self-Government in Croatia, Italy and Slovenia (written in co-authorship).

She obtained a PhD in 2014 at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, after defending the dissertation The Influence of Selected Organizational Variables of Performance Measurement of Public Organizations written under the mentorship of Professor Ivan Koprić.

In 2008 she worked as a trainee lawyer and since February 2009, she has worked at the Department of Administrative Science at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb as an assistant (2009-2014), senior assistant (2014-2016), assistant professor (2016-2021) and associate professor (2021-). She participates in the lectures, seminars and exams performed by the Department of Administrative Science at the law study programme, social works study programmes and public administration and public finance study programmes.

She is a member of the Institute of Public Administration, full member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences, member of the Scientific Board for Central State Administration, Justice and Rule of Law at the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts and assistant editor of the scientific journal Croatian and Comparative Public Administration. In the 2010-2022 period, she was a court interpreter for the Italian language.

She is the author and co-author of more than 50 scientific and professional papers, and she has actively participated in more than 40 domestic and international scientific and professional conferences and round tables. She is the co-author of the textbook Basics of Public Management (2023, FOI) and co-editor of the book Quality and Performance Management in Public Administration (2016, IJU). She is the winner of Eugen Pusić Prize for best scientific paper by a junior scientist in 2018. She participated in different scientific and professional projects (project financed by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology Europeanization of Croatian Public: influence on development and national identity, scientific project financed by the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb New Croatian Legal System, IPA 2008 project Support to the Implementation of the General Administrative Procedure Act, Ministry of Public Administration and ESF project Development of the Competency Framework for Public Services, project led by the European Urban Research Association Local-State Society Relations, projects financed by the University of Zagreb Administrative Capacities for Regulation in the Area of Migration: Towards Evidence-Based Decision Making and Contemporary Administrative Doctrines: Influence of Theory on Practice). She acted as the World Bank’s consultant and as the member of the working group for the making of the Anticorruption strategy for 2021-2030 period.

She speaks English, Italian and Germany and passively speaks French.

Narrower fields of scientific interest: public management, human resources management, comparative public administration, evaluation.