Tomislav Globan is an Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics & Business. He holds a PhD in the field of macroeconomics of financial markets and European economic integrations, which have remained his primary fields of scientific and professional interest, together with the economics of sports. He had his post-doctoral research stay at the WIIW institute in Vienna, was a visiting researcher in the United States at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and has taught at the WU university in Vienna. He had undergone professional training at the University of Cambridge, University of Surrey, and Northwestern University. He was the principal investigator and a collaborator on multiple scientific and professional projects financed by European institutions, the Croatian Science Foundation, and other domestic and foreign institutions. He is the head of the MacroHub research center that specializes in creating analyses and visualizations of current economic trends, as well as various economic indicators that capture movements in the business cycle, real estate market, labor market, fiscal risks, etc. He has published dozens of papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He has won a number of domestic and international awards for his scientific and teaching excellence, most notably the National Science Award from the Croatian Parliament (the highest scientific award in Croatia) and the "Olga Radzyner Award" bestowed by the Austrian Central Bank (ÖNB). He has done consulting work in the field of macroeconomics, economics of EU integration and sports economics for multiple companies and institutions. He is a member of the Executive Board of GNK Dinamo Zagreb football club.