The members of the Commission are:

prof. SANDRA KRTALIĆ, PhD

Commision Chairperson
2021.-2026.

E-mail: sandra.krtalic@pfp.hr
Tel: +385 (0) 52 377 049

Sandra Krtalić is a full-time professor at the Faculty of Economics and Tourism "Dr. Mijo Mirković" at Jurja Dobrila University in Pula. At the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, she obtained her master's degree in 1997, and her doctorate in 2001. Her orientation and area of scientific and professional interest are public finance, public sector economics, local public finance and international aspects of taxation. In the scope of scientific research, she is the author or co-author of over 100 scientific papers, the author of numerous reviews of articles, books, and scientific and professional projects. She actively participated in numerous confereces in the country and abroad and was involved as a manager or researcher in several domestic and international projects. As part of broader social activities, she is a member of the Economic Council of the Diocese of Poreč-Pula. In 2006, she was named Economist of the Year for her special merits in the scientific and research work in which she disseminates and promotes the results of research in the public sector domain. In 2019, she was a member of the Working Group of the President of the Republic of Croatia for the development of guidelines for further fiscal decentralization and regional development of the Republic of Croatia.

For further information:
https://fet.unipu.hr/fet/sandra.krtalic
https://www.bib.irb.hr

MAROJE LANGMaroje Lang, PhD

Deputy Chairperson
representative of the Croatian National Bank
2019-2024

E-mail: maroje.lang@pfp.hr


Maroje Lang has been employed at the Croatian National Bank since 1997. Before being appointed as the Chief Advisor in the Research Area, he was the Director of the Econometric Modelling Department and the Head of the Monetary Analysis Division. From 2012 to 2015, he was the Assistant Minister of Finance in charge of the Directorate for Macroeconomic Analysis, Economy, Financial System, European Union and International Financial Relations. He was a member of the Economic and Financial Committee of the EU, coordinator of the European Semester in Croatia, member of the Financial Stability Council and the Council for Internal Financial Control in the Public Sector, and the National Authorising Officer (NAO) for the EU Funds. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Fiscal Policy Commission. He was also an external associate and lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, the Faculty of Law, and Zagreb School of Economics and Management. He received his doctorate at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, studied and resided at LSE, Harvard and MIT, and has participated at numerous seminars organized by the IMF and central banks. His research interests are macroeconomics and economic policy.

VESNA KASUM, MSc

Member of the Commision
representative of the State Audit Office
2019. – 2024.

Vesna Kasum is an Assistant Auditor General for the audit of the state budget and budgetary users. Area of her professional interest is public sector audit, budget and budgetary processes, and budgetary accounting. She is certified state auditor. In 2005, she completed postgraduate studies in the field of Audit at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb. Ms. Kasum participated in several international professional congresses and conferences. She has published several professional articles in the field of Audit and presented at several professional and scientific meetings. She is the co-author of the book State Audit and several professional manuals and guidelines. She participated in the implementation of several international projects and is a member of the Exam Commission for obtaining the title of certified state auditor. She was a member of the Fiscal Policy Board from 2011 to 2013.

IGOR KARLOVIĆ, MSc

Member of the Commission
representative of the State Audit Office

Igor Karlović is a certified state auditor and Head of Department for the Audit of budgetary users of the State Budget in the field of Defense, Internal and External Affairs, Justice and Administration, in the State Audit Office. His area of professional interest is public sector audit, state budget and budget processes, and budget accounting. At the Faculty of Economics in Split, he completed undergraduate and graduate studies in Business Economics, in the field of Accounting and Audit. He participated and presented at several international professional meetings. He participated in the implementation of several international projects, audits of annual reports on the implementation of the state budget, and audits of budgetary users of the state budget. He is a representative of the State Audit Office in several international audit expert groups.

Ljubinko Jankov, PhD

Representative of the Croatian National Bank
Vice President of the Commission
2024.-2029.

E-mail: ljubinko.jankov@hnb.hr
Phone: +385 (0)1 4564 555

Ljubinko Jankov is the Chief Advisor in the Research Department of the Croatian National Bank. He obtained his Master’s degree from the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb in 1988 and has completed specialized training programs with the International Monetary Fund, the William Davidson Institute, the Institute for Social Planning, and other institutions. His primary areas of interest include economic and monetary policy. Following his graduate studies, he began his career at the Croatian National Bank, where he served as Executive Director of the Research Department from 2000 to 2022. He is the author or co-author of several papers published in both domestic and international scientific journals.

Dr. sc. MARUŠKA VIZEK

Member of the Commision
representative of the Institute of Economics, Zagreb
2019. – 2024.

Maruška Vizek is a research fellow and deputy director for finances at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb. She has been working at the Institute since 2002. From 2016 to 2020 she was appointed as the director of the Institute. Her scientific work is focused on international economics and finances, applied macroeconomics, fiscal policy, tourism economics, energy economics and housing economics. She has published over 60 papers, out of which 40 in Web of Science indexed journals, some of which published in high profile international journals such as Energy Economics, Journal of Empirical Finance, Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Review of World Economics, Review of International Economics and Economic Systems. In 2006 she was the recipient of Marijan Hanžeković annual award for the best academic paper. She has been the recipient and the lead investigator of several competitive research grants, and she has also led and participated on implementation of numerous applicative research projects commissioned by various governmental bodies, nonprofit organizations and business community. Currently she is the member of the Council for Energy Transition of the President of the Republic of Croatia, the Council for Reconstruction of the Government of the Republic of Croatia and the Council for Spatial Development of the Ministry of Physical Planning, Construction and State Assets of the Republic of Croatia. From 2020 she has been performing the role of an editor of Croatian Economic Survey journal.

VJEKOSLAV BRATIĆ, PhD

Member of the Commision
Representative of the Institute of Public Finance
2019. – 2024.

E-mail: vjekoslav.bratic@ijf.hr
Tel: +385 (0)1 4886-444 (ured)

Vjekoslav Bratić is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Finance Zagreb and Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Zagreb. He graduated at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Zagreb, and took his doctorates at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Zagreb and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Split. He has been working  at the Institute of Public Finance Zagreb since 2000. and since 2019 he has been the director of the Institute. He has published numerous scientific articles in domestic and international scientific and professional journals. His areas of interest relate to the economics of the public sector, the budget and the budget process, local finances, the relationship between the representative and executive authorities in the budget process at local and state level and tax expenditures. As an author and/or leader, he participated in numerous domestic and international professional and scientific research projects. He also participated or still participates in the work of various professional and scientific commissions, working groups, councils, administrative and rehabilitation councils and committees for various institutions, as well as editorial and organizational boards of domestic and international scientific and professional journals and conferences. He is an external associate of the Faculty of Economics, the Faculty of Political Sciences and the Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Zagreb, and is the editor-in-chief of the professional journal “Porezni vjesnik”. He has been a representative of the Institute for Public Finance in the Fiscal Policy Commission since 2011, when the Commission was called the Committee for Fiscal Policy.

For further information:
https://www.ijf.hr/files/zivotopis/bratic.pdf
https://www.bib.irb.hr/profile/18235

Tajana Barbić, PhD

Member of the Commision
Representative of the Institute of Economics Zagreb
2024.-2029.

E-mail: tbarbic@eizg.hr
Phone: +385 (0)1 2362 200

Tajana Barbić is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, with extensive expertise in both scientific and applied research. She has held several leadership roles throughout her career, including a term as Director of the Institute. Dr. Barbić holds a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in finance from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb, along with a master’s degree in finance from the distinguished Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, USA. Her primary research interests focus on macro-finance, capital markets, and housing economics. She has authored articles in renowned journals and presented her research at numerous scientific conferences worldwide. As a project leader and researcher, she has contributed to an array of both national and international projects. She is also an active educator, teaching courses in finance, entrepreneurship, and banking, and has served on various expert councils and working groups throughout her career.

Zoran Bubaš,, PhD

Member of the Commision
Representative of the Institute of Public Finance
2024.-2029.

E-mail: zoran.bubas@ijf.hr
Phone: +385 (0)1 48 86 444

Zoran Bubaš is a senior scientific associate at the Institute for Public Finance. He graduated in 1995 from the Faculty of Economics (University of Zagreb) and received his doctorate in 1999 from the University of Economics in Vienna (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien). He is a professional study professor with tenure (finance) and an assistant professor. He is engaged in research related to public sector economics (deficit financing, public debt management, fiscal system, health economics), financial market (capital market), and business economics (entrepreneurship and innovation).
More info:
https://www.ijf.hr/en/researchers/details/zoran-bubas,1093.html
https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/4491?lang=en

Associate prof. DOMAGOJ KARAČIĆ, PhD

Member of the Commision
Faculty of Economics, University of Osijek, from among the representatives of faculties of economics
2019. – 2024.

Domagoj Karačić is employed at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek at the Department of Finance and Accounting. From 2000 to 2005, he worked in several companies in the private sector (trade, auditin and entrepreneurship). Since 2006, he has been employed at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek as an assistant at the Department of Finance and Accounting in the courses ¨Public finance¨, ¨Local finance¨, ¨Public Debt Management¨ and ¨Comparative Tax Systems¨. Since 2017, he has been an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek. The area of scientific and professional interest are public finance, taxes and tax system and local public finance. He published 38 scientific papers, participated in several domestic and international conferences and published 3 teaching materials for students. He is a member of Executive Board of the Association of Accountants and Financial workers-Osijek. He has been a member of the Committee for Financial Bussines and Budgeting of J.J.Strossmayer in Osijek since 2017.

ZORAN ŠINKOVIĆ, PhD

Member of the Commision
Faculty of Law, University of Split
from among the representatives of faculties of law
2019-2024

E-mail:zoran.sinkovic@pravst.hr

Zoran Šinković is an assistant professor and head of the Chair of Financial Law and Financial Science at the Faculty of Law of the University of Split. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Split. After that, he established a working relationship at the Commercial Court in Split as a trainee judge. He has passed the bar exam. Master's degree and a doctorate in financial and legal sciences (financial law) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb. The area of his scientific and professional interest in international tax law, tax-substantive law, tax-procedural law, financing of local and regional self-government units, financing of public health, and financing of religious communities. In the scope of scientific research, he is the author or co-author of many scientific papers; and a reviewer of scientific and expert articles. He actively participated in numerous scientific meetings in the country and abroad. As part of wider social activities, he held lectures on Tax Law in the Republic of Croatia at seminars for preparing and taking the exam for a tax advisor. He was a co-author in the creation of the book Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames - National Genealogy Center in Zagreb in 2008. He is an external associate of the University Department of Health Studies at the University of Split, where he participates in the delivery of part of the classes on the subject of Health Insurance Systems.

Associate prof. Maja Mihelja Žaja, PhD

Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb
from among the Representatives of Faculties of Economics
2024.-2029.

E-mail: mmiheljaz@net.efzg.hr
Phone: +385 (0)1 238 3312

Maja Mihelja Žaja, PhD, is employed at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Economics at the Department of Finance since 2006. In November 2010, she obtained the title of university specialist, and in 2013, she received the academic degree of Doctor of Science at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb. She teaches the courses "Insurance and Risks", "Public Finances", "Public Debt Management", "Croatian Tax System" and "Payment Systems". Her areas of scientific and research interest are the insurance companies business operations, technological innovations in finance with an emphasis on insurance and payment transactions, social insurance and fiscal policy. She is the co-author of a university textbook and handbook and the author or co-author of several scientific and professional articles in finance in the country and abroad. As a presenter or session leader, she has participated in domestic and international scientific conferences. In 2018, for the scientific work titled "Forecasting fiscal variables in selected European economies using least absolute deviation method", Dr. Pero Jurković for a notable contribution to the field of finance. She is a member of the Scientific Society of Economists (ZDE), the International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences (IISES), and the Croatian Society for Operational Research (HDOI).

Sonja Cindori, PhD

Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb
from among the Representatives of Faculties of Law
2024.-2029.

E-mail: sonja.cindori@pravo.unizg.hr
Phone: +385 (0)1 4895 748
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0134-9285

Sonja Cindori is currently a professor at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law, in the Department of Financial Law and Financial Science (2022). Before completing her Ph.D. at the same faculty in 2009, she worked at the Ministry of Finance, Tax Administration (1998-2000), and the Anti-Money Laundering Office (2000-2007). In the Department of Financial Law and Financial Science, she is involved in teaching at the University's integrated undergraduate and graduate studies of Law, the University's specialist Study of Fiscal System and Fiscal Policy, as well as the Professional undergraduate study of Public Administration, particularly Tax Study. In addition to monographs, textbooks, articles, and book chapters on money laundering and terrorist financing, as well as financial law and financial science in general, she has published around 60 scientific papers and reviews. Moreover, she participated in about 50 conferences, primarily held abroad, as an author, co-author, or keynote speaker. She enhances her scientific involvement by serving on committees for national and international conferences and scientific institutions. After years of theoretical exploration and extensive practical experience, she served as principal investigator of the Croatian Science Foundation’s research project entitled Legal and Economic Analysis of Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing System (2015-2018). Her organizational skills and professional expertise were crucial in coordinating the establishment and implementation of the financial management and control system at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law (2009-2014). Currently, she heads the University's specialist study program in Fiscal System and Fiscal Policy for the term 2023-2027.