Morana Palikovic Gruden was born in 1943, in Zagreb. She graduated at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science. Her career started at the biggest publishing house in Croatia -“Vjesnik” where she worked a variety of jobs, including journalists, marketing and editors posts. When she gathered experience, she decided to become an entrepreneur. In 1994, she founded, published and worked as editor in chief of women’s magazine Working Women (Zaposlena žena). Between 1986 and 1990, she was a member of the Parliament as representative of the Trade Union of Printing Workers and Journalist. Since 2001, she is an active member of The Croatian People’s Party – Liberal Democrats. After local elections in 2001, she decided to turn professional politician especially active at the municipal level. Her positions were Deputy Mayor of Zagreb, President of the City Assembly of Zagreb, and City Assembly representative (from 2005 to 2009). She is former Vice President of City Assembly of City of Zagreb and member of the Committee for Social Services. As a person of various career experience, especially interested in woman’s rights issues, she is acting as mediator between government’s institutions and NGO’s working on opening space for dialogue and cooperation between those two entities. Currently she is Vice-President of the Croatian Olympic Committee and President of the Scatting Federation, Chairwoman in Women in Sport Commission.