Vedran Đulabić is a full professor at the Department of Administrative Science at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. He graduated, obtained his master’s and Ph.D. degrees at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in the Postgraduate Study in Administrative and Political Sciences. His master’s thesis was entitled Upravni aspekti regionalne politike (Administrative Aspects of Regional Politics) and his dissertation Utjecaj institucionalnog okvira regionalne politike na regionalnu samoupravu (Influence of the Institutional Framework of Regional Politics on Regional Self-Government). During his studies, he was a student assistant at the Department of Administrative Science, he received the Dean’s Award, as well as a University of Zagreb scholarship for the best students of the University.
He participates in teaching courses in the Legal Studies, the Social Work Studies, as well as the Professional Undergraduate and Specialist Public Administration Studies and the Professional Tax Studies at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb. He also teaches courses in the doctoral study of Public Law and Public Administration of the Faculty of Law in Zagreb and the Specialist postgraduate studies of Public Administration, City Management and Preparation and Implementation of EU Projects, which are carried out within the Centre for Postgraduate Studies of the University of Zagreb, and the undergraduate study Military Leadership and Management. Within the Erasmus program for teaching staff, he stayed at the Fachhochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung NRW (Cologne, Germany).
He has co-authored several textbooks and books (Upravna znanost – javna uprava u suvremenom europskom kontekstu, 2014, 2022; Legal Remedies in Administrative Procedures in Western Balkans, 2016, Decentralizacija, 2011; Javna uprava – nastavni materijali, 2000). In 2007, he, as the only author, published the book Regionalizam i regionalna politika. In addition, he has published over fifty peer-reviewed scientific papers, as well as the same number of professional papers, reviews, commentaries and other professional texts. He has participated in over seventy scientific and professional conferences and round tables in Croatia and abroad dedicated to public administration, local self-government, regionalism, EU funds, administrative capacity for EU accession, modernisation of the legislative procedure, etc.
From October 2005, he was the executive editor of the scientific and professional journal for the theory and practice of public administration Hrvatska javna uprava published in Zagreb., and in January 2011, when the journal improved its concept and changed its name, he became the assistant editor-In-chief of the journal Hrvatska i komparativna javna uprava (A1 journal according to MZOS, Scopus, WoS ESCI), and since 2021 he has been its editor-in-chief. Since October 2008, he has been the editor-in-chief of the Handbooks for Professional Training library, and since 2021, of the Scientific Collections library published by the Institute for Public Administration in Zagreb.
He participated in the negotiation team of the Republic of Croatia and the EU within the framework of chapter 22 Regionalna politika i koordinacija strukturnih instrumenata (Regional Policy and Coordination of Structural Instruments) and in various scientific and policy projects of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, the Ministry of Administration, the Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds, the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, the City of Zagreb, the European Union (CARDS;PHAREm IPA), OECD /Sigma Initiative, the Regional School for Public Administration (ReSPA), the World Bank, COST EU program, cities and municipalities in Croatia, as well as bilateral projects with France and Slovenia. The projects have been implemented in Croatia and abroad and are dedicated to the modernisation and Europeanisation of various aspects of public administration, such as modernisation and simplification of administrative procedures, strengthening of administrative capacities for regional development, functional review of state administration bodies, improvement of citizens’ relations with public administration bodies, assessment of the administrative capacity of potential candidates for EU membership, etc.
