Mladen Cerovac was born on 3 January 1954 in Zagreb. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, where he also obtained his LL.M. degree. He has also passed the bar exam. From 1978 to 1997 he worked as Head of the Department for the implementation of international agreements in the Croatian Pension Insurance Institute in Zagreb. He has occupied key positions in the Croatian Competition Agency from its establishment in 1997 until today (Deputy Director of the Agency, Director of Competition, Senior Advisor of the President of the Council of Competition). Since 2005 he has been the member of the Council, and in 2008 was elected deputy chairman of the Council. In November 2013 he was appointed president of the Competition Council. He has completed special specialized training in the field of competition organized by the European Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and US Department of Justice, the World Bank, the OECD and the EIPA. He has participated in hundreds of the most important international seminars and conferences in the field of competition law. He specializes in the control of concentrations between entrepreneurs. He is the author of the book “Glossary of law and competition policy”, and co-author of the textbook “Introduction to the European Union” and “Legal environment of business”. He has also authored a significant number of papers in the field of competition law and policy. He has been a member of the working group for preparing a draft regulation on the protection of competition since 1997, and a member of the Working Group on Croatian accession to the European Union for Chapter 8 (Competition). As an international legal expert from 2008 to 2010 he participated in the projects of the European Union for technical assistance to the Competition Council of the Republic of Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has spoken at numerous professional conferences in the country and abroad. He is also a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, Faculty of Law in Rijeka, Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, Faculty of Economics in Osijek, Zagreb School of Economics and Management and the University Department of Forensic Sciences in Split.
