Tijana Vukojičić Tomić, PhD, graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb in 1999, completed the Postgraduate specialist study of Local Development at the University of Trento, Italy, in 2005. She Received her PhD in the field of public law and public administration from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in 2016.

From November 1999 to May 2005, she worked as a project manager at the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, and then, at the Croatian Legal Centre as an assistant project manager until November 2006. She participated as a consultant in the CARDS 2003 project ‘Strengthening the Capacity for Administrative Decentralization’. From January 2007 to December 2011, she worked at the Polytechnic of Social Sciences in Zagreb.

She teaches courses at the Study of Law, the Study of Social Work, the Professional undergraduate studies of Public Administration and the Professional undergraduate Tax study, as well as the Specialist postgraduate study of Public Law and Public Administration.

She has published several scientific and professional papers and participated in numerous scientific and professional conferences in the country and abroad. She is the co-editor of several scientific and professional publications.

She is a member of the supervisory board of the Institute for Public Administration and the Croatian Legal Centre.

The area of her scientific interest especially includes minority rights, representative administration, management of differences, the relationship between administration and citizens, administrative reforms, e-administration and local political institutions.