Neven Šimac

Šimac graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb (1965) and received his doctorate in 1971 from the French University of Paris II.^[2] The same year he started working as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, but after the collapse of the Croatian Spring he was arrested.^[2] He emigrated to France, where he worked in the state administration (1972–95).^[2] He was the founding president of the Conseil représentatif des institutions croates et de la Communauté française (CRICCF).^[1] He was one of the founders of Matica hrvatska in Paris (1970).^[2]

As an advisor for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, he contributed to the post-Cold War development of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Phare programme 1995-1999), as well as Croatia's accession to the European Union.^[2] He was an advisor (2000–2004) to the governments of the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland in the process of accession to the European Union.^[2]

Šimac died on 4 June 2025, at the age of 81.^[3]

• Le Nettoyage éthnique: documents historiques sur une idéologie serbe (1993) (co-authors Marc Gjidara and Mirko Dražen Grmek)^[2]