Academy Members

Butorac Sara-Sanela, LLB

Academic titles:

• law graduate

Functions in Academy:

• secretary – Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (12/01/2020. – …)
• manager – Foundation of Croatian Academy of sciences and Arts (12/01/2020. – …)
• member – Library Board of the CASA Library (2022 – …)

Curriculum Vitae

Sara-Sanela Butorac was born on 1^st September 1976 in Zagreb, where she completed her primary and secondary education, and subsequently graduated from the Faculty of Law in 2002. After graduation, she started working at the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, where she later held the post of Assistant Minister – from 2006 to 2008. Subsequently, from 2008 to 2012, she was Head of the Department of Normative and Administrative-Legal Affairs. In the period 2012–2016, she was Secretary-General of the Ministry. She worked as Advisor at the Office for Legislation of the Government of the Republic of Croatia between 2016 and 2017. In the period 2017–2018, she led the Department for the Obzor 2020 Programme and other European Union programmes of the Ministry of Science and Education. Between 2018 and the election to the post of Secretary of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, she was Advisor to the State Secretary of the Central State Office for Sports.

She was elected Secretary of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts on 5 November 2020 by the decision of the Academy Presidency based on the proposal of the Academy Management Board, following the announcement of vacancy, to a four-year term, with the possibility of re-election. She assumed the position of Secretary of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts on 1^st December 2020.