Structure

Vice-presidents

Ana Brnčić was born in Rijeka, Croatia, in 1975. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of  Rijeka and an MA in Contemporary European Studies from Sussex University (UK), where she graduated with distinction in 2001. She also holds a Diploma of the London School of Public Relations.

She started her career in the local administration of the City of Opatija, where she worked from 1998 - 2001 as Head of a WHO project – Opatija Healthy City. She joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration in 2002, after completing the MA studies in the UK, and held a number of positions within the institution: Information and Communication Officer for European Integration (2002-2004), Head of Office of the State Secretary for European Integration (2004-2006), Deputy Chief of Staff to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration (2006-2008), and Head of Section for the Monitoring and Coordination of the EU Negotiation Process (2008-2009).

After leaving the MFAEI in March 2009, she joins T-HT Group, the leading telecommunication company in Croatia, where she works as Senior Advisor in the Compliance Department. In April 2010, she is offered and takes up the position of Team Leader at the EU Information Centre of the Delegation of the European Union in the Republic of Croatia.

Ana is also President of the Steering Board of the Academy for Political Development, an NGO aimed at developing democratic political culture and promoting dialogue and cooperation among future leaders in Croatia by motivating them to participate in public affairs.

She has been elected to the position of Vice-president of UNA Croatia in November 2009.

 

Maja Kosor

 

General secretary

Gordana Garašić was born on 25 May, 1970 in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from the School of Law (University of Zagreb, Croatia) in 1994 and passed the Bar Exam in 2006. She also attended numerous courses and seminars in the USA, UK, Austria, Czech Republic, Belgium etc. aimed at acquiring specialist military and legal knowledge and skills, including legal aspects of participating in peacekeeping missions and operations (LEGAD).

 

She started her career in 1994 at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and later joined the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia. Among the numerous assignments and duties she performed throughout her career, it is worth emphasizing the position of Military Advisor she held from 2004 to 2008 in the Military Representation to NATO (Croatian Mission to NATO). During the period from March to October 2010 she was participating in NATO operation to Afghanistan – ISAF. Since that she is appointed as Assistant Defence Advisor to the President RC in the Office of the President.

 

She was decorated with Certificate of Participation in the Homeland War, Medal „Storm“, NATO Medal „ISAF“ and a number of commendations for remarkable execution of duties from her superiors. In May 2011 she was promoted to the rank of Colonel.

Treasurer

Martina Krizman was born on 30 April 1984 in Pula, Croatia. She graduated from the School of Law (University of Zagreb) in 2009. After the graduation she started to work at the Ministry of Justice in the Department of the European Union and International Cooperation. During her studies she participates in the Eurodyssee exchange programme of the Assembly of European Regions (AER). 

She actively participates in the work of UNA Croatia since its restoration in 2008. To the position of treasurer she has been elected in November 2008.

 

Supervisory Board

President

Davorin Lapaš, Ph.D., was born in Zagreb on 14 November 2011 in Zagreb. He was awarded his LL.B. degree and Dean’s Award on 24 October 1995 from the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb. In 1997 he attends a course in Public International Law at The Hague Academy of International Law (The Hague, Netherlands) while in 1998 he is appointed Junior Assistant at the Chair of Public International Law, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law.

After completing in 1998 a postgraduate research project at the Asser Institute for Private and Public International Law (The Hague, Netherlands), he obtains in 1999 his LL.M. degree in Public and Private International Law, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, with the master thesis ‘International Legal Personality of International Non-governmental Organizations’. He is member of the Croatian Society of International Law (national branch of the International Law Association - ILA) since 1998, and secretary of the organization since 2008. In 2000, he becomes member of the International Law Association. In 1999 he is promoted to the position of Assistant at the Chair of Public International Law, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law.

After participating in the International Seminar on International Sanctions in Aix-en-Provence, France, the International Law Seminar at the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations in Thessaloniki, Greece, and the thirty-sixth International Law Seminar in Geneva (the UN International Law Commission), in 2002 he completes his Ph.D. research project at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany and obtains his Ph.D. in 2003. In December 2003, he is elected Assistant Professor at the Chair of Public International Law, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law.

In 2004, he is admitted as ordinary member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences. Besides a number of papers in the field of international law, he authored four books: ‘International non-governmental organizations as subjects of international law’ (1999), ‘Sanctions in international law’ (2004), Law of International Organisations (2008) and International legal protection of refugees and displaced persons (2008). He participated also in the research project of the International Committee of the Red Cross for Customary International Humanitarian Law.

Since 2005 he teaches at the Postgraduate course in international public and private law and the Postgraduate course in European law at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, at the Postgraduate course in international relations of the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb as well as at the High School for International Relations and Diplomacy. He is fluent in English, French and Swahili.

He presides over the Steering Board of the Croatian United Nations Association since 2011.

 

Members

Dragutin Repinc was born on November 19, 1959 in Zagreb. He graduated from the Military Academy in Belgrade and Karlovac in 1982 specializing in engineering. Since 1991 he has been appointed to numerous positions in the Croatian Armed Forces. Among others, he was instructor within the Military Proprietary Recource Incorporation – Democratic Transition Assistance program (MPRI-DTAP) in training management, organizational management and ledership from 1995 to 1996, Commander of the Officer School in 1997, Chief of Staff of Army Headquarters from 2003 to 2005, and Head of the Planning Directorate, J-5, General Staff from 2008 to 2011. He completed the Republic of Croatia's Command and General Staff School in 1994  and the U.S. Command and General Staff Course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1997. In December 2005 he was appointed the Head of Mission/Chief Military Observer in the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) where he stayed till December 2007. He attended the UN Pilot Course for Senior Management in Abuja, Nigeria, and participated in numerous NATO/PfP courses, seminars, meetings and exercises. Currently Major General Dragutin Repinc holds the position of Commander od the Croatian Army. His military orders, decorations and medals include: Order of the Duke Branimir, Order of the Vice-Roy Josip Jelačić, Order of the Croatia Trefoil, Order of the Croatian Braid, Homeland War Commemorative Decoration, Homeland Gratitude Commemorative Decoration for 5 and 10 years of distinguished service, Medal for Participation in Operation Storm, and the UNMOGIP Medal.

 

Budimir Lončar currently holds the position of President of the Foreign Affairs and International Relations Advisory Committee to the President of the Republic of Croatia. He started his rich diplomatic career in the former Yugoslavia, where in the period from 1957 to 1964 he works as Special Advisor to the Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He participated in numerous Non-Aligned Movement conferences, and chaired a number of them in the 1988 - 1991 period. He served as Ambassador of Yugoslavia to Indonesia, Germany and the USA. In 1984 he returns to SFRY, where he is appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Three years later he becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs and holds this post until the disintegration of former Yugoslavia in 1991. From 1993 to 1995 Mr. Lončar is appointed Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the Non-Aligned Movement. After leaving the UN, he performs advisor and consulting duties in various non-governmental organizations - Appeal of conscience Foundation, the World Council of Religious and Spiritual Leaders in New York, and the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva.