Contact:
Jakša Puljiz, PhD
+385 1 487 7460
jpuljiz@irmo.hr
Bibliography:
Croatian scientific bibliography.
Job title: Director
Jakša Puljiz, PhD in Economics is the Director of the Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO). He acquired his MA at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb in 2005, while he received his PhD in 2009 at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Split with the theses “Factors of Regional Development and Regional Inequalities in Republic of Croatia”. His started working in IRMO in 2001 in the Department for Resource Economics, Environmental Protection and Regional Development where his research interest covered topics such as regional and local development and EU Cohesion policy. In 2017 he was appointed the Head of Department for European Policies where he was engaged with topics such as the impact of EU policies on national public policies of member states and other countries being part of the enlargement process. As an expert he has been engaged in numerous projects funded by the World Bank, European Commission, UNDP, GIZ and other international organisations. In June 2025 he was elected as the Director of IRMO.
Between 2012 and 2016 he was appointed as the Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds, and afterwards as the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisor.