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Participants & Speakers
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Ratka Jurkovic is the director of the Norwegian-Croatian consultancy called Svan Consulting. Svan Consulting introduces to Croatia innovative solutions from the strategy management field, such as alternative marketing strategies, organizational learning and organizational decision-making, based on the new accomplishments of the cognitive psychology. She graduated at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, and as the first Croatian she got a Master's degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. She worked as a financial analyst in the pharmaceutical company Pliva and on numerous research projects in Norway.
Ms. Jurkovic is deeply inspired by the Buddhistic philosophy, which became part of her life 10 years ago, along with her guru. Although she is not a formal Buddhistic practitioner, she feels Buddhistic principles as the essential part of her life. Moreover, she works very actively on implementing the ideas of Buddhism into economy field, i.e. the creation of the new enlightened leaders, which is also the topic of her present PhD thesis.
When she was barely 18 Ms. Jurkovic published her book of poems called "With the new time". She also wrote articles for many popular Norwegian newspapers about the application of Buddhism to every day's life.
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