Croatian historian and professor
Neven Budak (born 3 May 1957) is a Croatian historian and professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
Biography.
Neven Budak was born on 3 May 1957 in the city of Zagreb, then part of Socialist Republic of Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia. In the same city Budak finished elementary and high school, as well as graduated in history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 1979, and received his doctorate in 1991.
In 1980 began working as an assistant at the Department of Croatian History of the FFZG, to start teaching medieval history from 1983 at the Department of Croatian History of the FFZG, replacing Nada Klaić, and as a full professor since 2002. From 1994 to 2002 he taught urban history at the Central European University in Budapest. In the same time became the Dean of the FFZG (2000–2004). One of the founders of the historical society OTIVM (president 1992-96), since 1999 is the president of the Croatian National Committee for Historical Sciences, and from 2003 Head of the Board of the Croatian History Museum.
Education policy.
Between 2009 and 2013, he was a member of the National Board of Higher Education. Prime Minister of the Twelfth Government of the Republic of Croatia, Zoran Milanović, appointed Budak on 16 January 2012 as the Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for Science in the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia. In that position until 2015, he was in charge of drafting and implementing the Education, Science and Technology Strategy (HAZU-MZOS). Under his leadership was created a strategy and project for its implementation known as "Nove boje znanja", for which also edited the same-titled book published in 2015.
Works.
His field of historical research initially specialized in topics of urban and social history of the Middle Ages, expanding into the Middle Ages of Slavonia and Dalmatia, formation of ethnic identities among South Slavs, the ethnogenesis of Croats for which organized international scientific conference in 1989, the Early Middle Ages of Croatia, its formation and Christianization.
By 2017, his opus includes seven scientific books as an author and co-author, eight books as an editor and co-editor, two classbooks, two historical-poetical books, 56 chapters in books, 38 scientific papers in journals, 86 professional papers, 50 encyclopedic contributions, as well participation and organization of many scientific conferences and expositions. He also participated as a main advisor of the television series "" ("Croatian kings") by HRT.
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