Marija is the founder and director of Parser compliance. Marija’s work focuses on legal compliance, privacy and data protection, information security.

In 2010, Marija received her Mag. Jur. from the University of Zagreb and, in 2015, her LL.M. degree from Tilburg University (The Netherlands) in the field of Law and Technology. She was one of the first people with a master’s thesis topic focused on the legal and regulatory aspects of Smart City projects, and data protection challenges related to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

She passed the bar exam and completed an ISO 27001 Internal Auditor course. She finished courses in Python programming, artificial intelligence and digital marketing. Marija is also Certified AI and Trust Privacy Compliance Officer from Maastricht University, Netherlands.

She began her career in law firms and continued in the banking industry, where she was appointed Data Protection Officer. For the last 10 years she has been performing services of Data Protection Officer and Privacy Officer and advising clients from various industries – from the food and IT industries to the energy and media/marketing industries – operating worldwide.

From 2023 to 2024 she worked as an external advisor for the Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency together with the Italian Data Protection Authority – Garante Privacy, University of Florence, FOI University, and Vrije University Brussels on the EU project ARC2 and on the development of the web tool Olivia with 15 GDPR modules intended for entrepreneurs’ GDPR compliance.

Marija regularly attends international and local conferences on privacy and data protection and holds seminars and workshops on GDPR compliance for lawyers, data protection officers and compliance officers. She was teaching Security, ethics and privacy of data at Algebra Bernays University and currently she performs duties as a member of Council for Cooperation with the Economy and NGOs of Faculty of Law in Zagreb.

In 2024, she was recognised as one of the top 50 women in high-tech in Croatia. She is a mentor for AI start‐ups at the Bird incubator, a member of the ICC Commission on the Digital Economy, Chair of the Compliance Committee of the International Women’s Business Network, President of the Corporate Lawyers Association, and one of the founders and Vice‐President of the Croatian Compliance Association.