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Job title: Scientific advisor
Valentina Vučković is a Scientific Advisor in the Department for International Economic and Political Relations. From 2014 to 2026, she worked at the Department of Economic Theory of the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, as an Associate Professor from 2022. She received her PhD from the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb in 2014. In 2019, she spent two months as a visiting researcher at the School of Economics and Business, University of Sarajevo. She also completed the HarvardX online programme “Energy Within Environmental Constraints” by Harvard University. Her research interests include the political economy of reforms and institutions, competitiveness and entrepreneurship, corruption, and the green and digital transition, with a particular focus on the new EU member states and the Western Balkans. She publishes in international journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus and has authored book chapters published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan. She is one of the co-authors of the university textbook Principles of Economics (Osnove ekonomije), for which she and her co-authors received the “Mijo Mirković” Award of the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb in 2023. She has participated in national and international projects funded by the EU, HRZZ, the ILO, the World Bank, the LSE, the ETUC and the UNDP, among others. She is a member of the International Editorial Review Board of the journal Oeconomia Copernicana and has served on the programme and organising committees of several international scientific conferences. At the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb, she led the courses Political Economy of Globalisation, Competitiveness Analysis in Contemporary Economies, and Stakeholder Approach to the Firm, and also taught Microeconomics and Principles of Economics. At the PhD programme, she led the course Competitiveness Analysis in the Context of Globalisation. She is a member of UACES and EBES.