Mario Nobilo has been a professional diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration since 1992. He received a PhD in international security at the Faculty of Political Science, the University of Zagreb
Mario Nobilo has been a professional diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration since 1992. He received a PhD in international security at the Faculty of Political Science, the University of Zagreb.
He worked as an associate researcher at the Department of Political and Strategic Studies, Institute for Developing Countries (now the Institute for International Relations) in Zagreb (1979-1989), and was the Vice-President of the Croatian Council of European Movement and the Europe House in Zagreb (1990-1992). He also acted as the spokesman for President Franjo Tuđman (1990) and advisor to the president for foreign policy (1991-1992).
From 1992 to 1997 he was the permanent representative of the Republic of Croatia to the UN and actively participated in all the key negotiations that preceded the breakup of Yugoslavia as well as in the peace negotiations in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He filled the posts of permanent representative of the Republic of Croatia to OSCE, UN and other international organization in Vienna (1997), assistant foreign minister (2002-2004) and ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia (2004-2008). As of 2008 he has served as the director for multilateral affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration.
He is the author and co-author of several books and numerous articles in domestic and foreign magazines on international relations, international security and regional conflicts, including the wars in ex-Yugoslavia. Since 1999 he has worked as a permanent lecturer at the MFAEI Diplomatic Academy and the War School of the Ministry of Defence, and has delivered numerous lectures on international relations at foreign universities.
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