Romana Matanovac Vučković, PhD, is a Full Professor at the University of Zagreb, where she teaches at the Faculty of Law, the Music Academy and the Academy of Dramatic Arts. She also leads the University’s Postgraduate Specialist Interdisciplinary Programme in Intellectual Property. She has published more than 70 academic papers in the fields of intellectual property and private law, and has been an invited speaker at numerous academic and professional conferences.
She previously served as Deputy Director General of the Croatian State Intellectual Property Office, as President of the Council of Experts for Copyright, and as President of the Boards of Appeal in industrial property. She was a member of the Working Group for Croatia’s negotiations with the European Union on intellectual property and chaired the Audiovisual Working Party of the Council of the European Union during Croatia’s EU Presidency. She currently serves as special adviser to the Croatian Minister of Culture and Media.
As an international IP expert, she regularly collaborates on scientific and technical assistance projects. Her expertise spans copyright, collective management, audiovisual law, and IP policy development. She is also a trade mark and industrial design representative before the European Union Intellectual Property Office and a European patent representative before the European Patent Organisation. Before her academic and public-sector career, she worked at HDS ZAMP, the Croatian collective management organisation for music copyright.
She is President of the Croatian Music Institute, the first woman to hold this position in its 200-year history. She leads a project to renovate its historic concert hall, a listed cultural heritage venue. She is also Dean-elect of the Faculty of law, University of Zagreb, the third woman to be elected to this position in the Faculty’s 250-year history.
