Melita Mulić earned a Master’s degree in Contemporary European Studies in 2005 at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. 

She worked as a career diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia, from 2005 and she was responsible for various tasks. She was Head of the Section for Communication Support to the Accession Negotiations Process, and once Croatia joined the European Union Ms. Mulić was engaged as a national expert on the twinning and TAIEX projects of the European Commission. 

She was a Social Democratic Party (SDP) representative in the City Assembly of the City of Zagreb from 2009 to 2013, the Chair of the Gender Equality Commission and a member of the City of Zagreb Commission on Protection against Domestic Violence. Ms. Mulić was a member of the Croatian Parliament (SDP) from 2012 to 2016, where she also served on the Committee on Human and National Minority Rights, the Gender Equality Committee and the Croatian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the oldest European international organization for the development of democracy and the protection of human rights. 

She was Secretary General, member of the Presidency and Vice President of the Social Democratic Women’s Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia, from 2007 until 2018. 

She has completed professional development courses in diplomacy, public policy and the development of democratic societies at various institutions, including the Council of Europe and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. 

She serves as Adviser to the President of the Republic of Croatia for Human Rights and Civil Society from February 2020.