Ivan Kristek was born in 1981 in Osijek. He finished elementary school and general-education high school in Osijek. He continued his education at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek, where he graduated in 2005 with a degree in Investment Funds in the Republic of Croatia. In February 2006, he enrolled in the specialized post-graduate study in Organization and Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek, and he defended his final thesis in 2009 on the subject of Branch Concentration of Open Investment Funds in the Republic of Croatia, earning the title of university specialist in economics. At the same time as attending the specialist study, he also enrolled in the postgraduate doctoral study in Management. After fulfilling all the obligations and passing all prescribed exams at the post-graduate doctoral studies, he started writing his doctoral dissertation entitled Compatibility of Branch Concentration and Branch Competition in the Function of the Efficiency of the Banking Branch. In 2012, he defended the same paper at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek before a commission composed of prof. Jasna Horvat, PhD, prof. Marijan Karić, PhD and prof. Ivana Barković Bojanić, PhD. Since 2007, he has been employed at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek full-time for a fixed period as an assistant, since 2013 he has held the scientific and teaching position of assistant professor, and since 2018 the scientific and teaching position of associate professor.
