Mladen Bručić-Matic

Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

  • Born in 1982 in Zagreb
 

Education

  • 2017                International Junior Diplomats Program, Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey
  • 2011 - 2012    Advanced Master of European Studies, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb 
  • 2008 - 2009    Professional diplomatic study program at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Croatia
  • 2008                Civil Service Exam
  • 2007                Law graduate, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb
  • 2001                Graduate of XV. Gymnasium in Zagreb


Professional career

  • 2024 -             Director General, Directorate for European Affairs, International and Judicial Cooperation and Anti-Corruption, Ministry of Justice and Public Administration
  • 2023 - 2024    Acting Director General, Directorate for European Affairs, International and Judicial Cooperation and Anti-Corruption, Ministry of Justice and Public Administration
  • 2022 - 2023    Head of Anti-Corruption Sector, Ministry of Justice and Public Administration
  • 2022                Head of the Public International Law Division, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
  • 2018-2022      Diplomatic Counsellor, then Minister-Counsellor, Legal Adviser to the Permanent Mission and Delegate of the Republic of Croatia to the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Croatia to the United Nations, New York, SA 
  • 2016 - 2018    Head of Division for International Law and International Law Matters of the EU, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
  • 2016                First Secretary (diplomat), Division for International Law and International Law Matters of the EU, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs 
  • 2012 - 2016    Diplomat, Embassy of the Republic of Croatia to the Republic of Turkey, Ankara 
  • 2007 - 2012    Expert Associate, then diplomat, Independent Division for International Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration


Achievements and recognitions 

  • Deputy Representative in the Anti-Corruption Council from the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration 
  • Deputy EU Coordinator from the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration
  • Deputy Member of the Negotiating Group for Croatia’s OECD Accession from the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration
  • Head of Delegation to the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions
  • Deputy Representative of the Republic of Croatia to the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), Council of Europe
  • Member of delegations of the Republic of Croatia for 73th to 77th UN General Assembly; Vice-Chair of the United Nations Special Committee on the UN Charter (2020); Representative of the Republic of Croatia to the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly on legal affairs; Coordinator of the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly on the administration of justice at the UN (2021); Contact Point for the issue of non-cooperation of the New York Working Group of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (2019-2021); Coordinator of UN General Assembly resolutions on “Cooperation between the UN and the Council of Europe” (2018) and “The responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity” (2021); charged with monitoring the work of the UN Security Council on political and security issues in Europe and the Middle East, international law issues, including international courts, and counter-terrorism
  • Member of the delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Protection of Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdictions, meetings of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, the ISA Assembly and meetings of States Parties to UNCLOS
  • participated as a member of Croatian delegations in negotiations for a number of international agreements, primarily in the field of police and judicial cooperation, taxes, defence, transport, etc.
 

Foreign languages:

  • English (active) 
  • Spanish (active)
  • German (passive)
  • Turkish (passive)