Iva Lopižić
ORCID iD https://www.pravo.unizg.hr/en/iva.lopizic
University of Zagreb
Croatia

Since March 2012, Prof. Iva Lopižić has been working as an assistant, since March 2018 as a postdoctoral student, and since May 2022 as an assistant professor at the Department of Administrative Science, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. In October 2018, she obtained the scientific title of a research associate in the scientific field of social sciences – the field of law. Since the beginning of her employment, she has actively participated in classes, seminars and exams in the courses held by the Department of Administrative Science at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, the Study Centre for Public Administration and Public Finance, and the Study Centre for Social Work. During 2018 and 2019, she performed administrative tasks for the Institute of Public Administration. She is a member of the Institute of Public Administration and the Central Eastern European Society of Administrative Sciences. She has been a member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences since February 2019. She is an author and co-author of more than 30 scientific and professional papers and has participated in conferences in the country and abroad. She has participated in four projects. She was a member of the organizing committee of the domestic scientific and professional meeting “Normalization of the Status of Public Servants – a Solution or a Trap”, and she is the co-editor of the proceedings of this meeting. She won the Eugen Pusić Award for the work of the best young scientist in 2019 with her work The Role of Deconcentrated State Administration: From Integrative and Implementation to Coordinative-Planning Role. Her areas of scientific interest include deconcentration and decentralization, performance of public affairs in territorial units, local self-government, inspection supervision and civil servants. She is registered in the Register of Scientists of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia under registration number 334290.

Romea Manojlović Toman
ORCID iD https://www.pravo.unizg.hr/en/employees/romea-manojlovic-toman/
University of Zagreb
Croatia

Romea Manojlović is a graduate of 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 (since 2021). She participates in the lectures, seminars and exams performed by the Department of Administrative Science in 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, a 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 an 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) and co-editor of the book Quality and Performance Management in Public Administration (2016). 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 a member of the working group for the making of the Anticorruption strategy for 2021–2030 period. Narrower fields of scientific interest: public management, human resources management, comparative public administration, evaluation.