Nina Perko
I was born in year 1966 in Zagreb, Croatia where I completed primary and secondary education and the Faculty of Law, after which my work experience began. On the March 1st 1990 I started working at the Municipal Court in Zagreb. After completing the bar exam in 1993, I was employed by the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure.
Since my day-to-day job is related to both law and traffic, I continued my education by enrolling in a Master of Arts degree at the Faculty of Traffic Sciences where I defended my MA's thesis in 2006. Afterwards, I enrolled in the PhD programme at the same Faculty, where in 2017 I had dissertation defense and was awarded the doctoral degree.
Throughout my professional career I have worked both independently and as part of a team on various projects; primarily on projects focused on the development of strategic documents in the field of maritime affairs and the development of the port system. Due to my desire for constant improvement and better understanding of the transportation system, in my work I wanted to adopt and apply methods based on scientific knowledge in the daily functioning of the maritime system.
In an effort to view everyday issues from the perspective of scientific and professional knowledge, through writing a doctoral thesis I analyzed data and facts on the port infrastructure and presented research results in order to set criteria for balanced and optimal development of one of the subsystems of maritime navigation: nautical transport. Interest in the stated field was not only my professional, but also of personal interest, pertinent to my way of life.
Maritime affairs in a broader sense is an extremely interesting and dynamic branch of the economy whose development contributes to the global connection of the world that resists global health and economic crises, and includes various stakeholders: shipowners, shipping agents, port system stakeholders, government agencies and administrative public bodies. Precisely because of its interdisciplinarity, it represents an area of propulsive economic growth in which there is room for constant progress and development, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
