Date and place of birth:

29 March 1943 – Zagreb

Education:

1966 – Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb

1964-1966 – In-house journalist school of the Zagreb Radio Television

Career:

1 Feb 2005 – Foreign Policy Adviser to the President

Sep 2003 – Sep 2004 – Columnist for the daily Slobodna Dalmacija

2004 – Edited the memoirs of retired General Zlatko Rendulić General AVNOJSKE Jugoslavije [General of the AVNOJ Yugoslavia] and translated from German memoirs of the founder and longtime chief of the East German Foreign Intelligence Service, Marcus Wolf Čovjek bez lica [Man Without a Face] for the publishing house Gold Marketing – Tehnička knjiga.

Jan 2001 – July 2003 – Foreign Policy Adviser to the President

Sep 2000 – Dec 2000 – Assistant Foreign Policy Adviser to the President

1999-2000 – Acting editor-in-chief of the broadcaster Kanal RI

1998-1999 – Public Relations Representative of the "Institut Otvoreno društvo Hrvatska" [Open Society Institute - Croatia]

1996-1998 – Political Secretary and Public Relations Officer of the political party ASH [Action of the Social-Democrats of Croatia]

1995-1996 – Editor of the news programme and foreign-policy analyst of the Radio Free Europe in Prague

1993-1995 – Correspondent of the German radio broadcaster Deutsche Welle

1992-1993 – Editor-in-chief of the independent news agency CINA Press

1992 – Editor in the Foreign Policy Desk of the HINA news agency

1966-1992 – Journalist, editor, commentator in the Foreign-Policy Editorial Board of Television Zagreb (HTV). Presenter of world news in the central news programme "Dnevnik", author of a large number of independent broadcasts and stories, mainly from the foreign policy field and interviews with a sizable number of prominent political personalities of the time (Carl Carstens, Richard von Weizsäcker, Helmut Kohl, Hans Dietrich Genscher, Willi Stoph, Rudolf Kirchschläger, Kurt Waldheim, Bruno Kreisky, Fred Sinowatz, Franz Vranitzky, Olof Palme, Álvaro Cunhal, Jitzak Shamir, Shimon Peres, Jitzak Rabin, Yasser Arafat…), special foreign correspondent (parliamentary and presidential elections in Austria, signing of the SALT – I US-Russian treaty on limitation of strategic arms, Carter – Brezhnev Summit, Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Zimbabwe…)

During this period he published a series of articles and stories in the weekly Studio and dailies Vjesnik and Novi list.

Foreign languages: English and German

Married.