More than five years working in the Croatian Food Agency as a senior adviser for communication and public relations. She graduated from the Faculty of Law in Osijek, after which she was educated in the field of public relations. She graduated from the London School of Public Relations (LSPR) and also acquired the title of manager of public relations at the Business Academy Experta, Zagreb. She is currently a doctoral student of European Studies at the University of Josip Juraj Srossmayer in Osijek. She was the National Coordinator of the IPA pre-accession program Preparations for participation of candidate countries and potential candidate countries in the work of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), from 2012 to the end of the program and Croatian accession to the EU. Since 2010, she is a member of the EFSA Advisory Forum Working Group on Communications (AFCWG). The area of her professional and scientific work is: planning, development and implementation of communication strategies, communication management in crisis situations, research on consumer perception, developing of communication campaigns and scientific event management related to the area of risk communication in food safety and others. She is a member of the Croatian Public Relations Association. She speaks English, Italian and French, and has a working knowledge of German.