Vanda Babić-Galić is born in Kotor in 1967. She graduated at Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar, and post graduated on studies in Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. She has earned a PhD in 2003 from the University of Zagreb with the dissertation The Cultural and Historical Value of Vicko Zmajević’s Activities in Boka Kotorska and Zadar, with the title of a full professor in 2017. In 2024, she has been appointed as a Special Advisor to the Minister for issues related to Croatian national minority, emigration and diaspora. She is also a scientific advisor at the Institute for Migration and Nationalities in Zagreb, where she leads the project Mapping the Croatian National Minority in 12 European Countries and participates in the project Measures for Immigration, Employment, and Integration of Croatian Descendants from South America. She is also the head of the project Encyclopedia of Boka Kotorska and a member of the Croatian Writers’ Association, the Croatian Writers’ Society, Matica Hrvatska, the Central Administration of HKD Napredak, the Croatian Brotherhood of the Boka Navy 809 Zagreb, the Community of Boka Croats, PEN Montenegro, and the Vice-President of the Croatian Cultural Center in Zagreb.
