Marijana Liszt has been a practicing attorney-at-law since 2002 and is one of the three founding partners in the Law Firm Posavec, Rašica & Liszt. After graduating from the Zagreb Law School and obtaining a master degree in EU Law at the University Carlos III of Madrid, she completed the master studies in EU Law at the Zagreb Law School focusing on state aid law. In 2005 she was appointed by the Government of the Republic of Croatia as Head of the Working group on Chapter 8 – Competition in the framework of Croatia’s EU accession negotiations. She is now a PhD candidate at the Law School of the University of Rijeka working on a thesis in the topic of state aid law, in particular the public financing of the services of general economic interest. Her fields of expertise are competition law including state aid law, commercial law, company law and sports law. She is a guest lecturer at the graduate and post graduate studies of the Zagreb and Rijeka Law Schools, lecturer at various scientific and expert conferences and author of a number of scientific and expert articles in the fields of competition and state aid laws.