Since 1990, Jasna Horvat has been employed at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek of the Josip Juraj Strossmay University, she is a member of the Department of Quantitative Economics and Informatics, and since 2012 she is a full-time professor in the branch of quantitative economics, the scientific discipline of economics, the scientific field of social sciences. She is a theorist of culture, an interdisciplinary artist and an award-winning writer. She is the author of international scientific papers, university textbooks and research studies in the field of social, humanistic and interdisciplinary sciences. She is the founder of Andizet – the Institute for Scientific and Artistic Research in the Creative Industry and is the president of the program committee of the Creative Treasury – a popularization symposium of the creative industry of the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek, which has been held since 2015. She is the theme editor of the international Millennium Competition from the creative industry, which has been held since 2019 at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek. She participated in the work of the President Kolinda Grabar Kitarović’s Working Group established in 2018/2019 for the branding of the Republic of Croatia. She is the winner of the State Award for Science in 2016 in the category of popularizing science (for the Creative Treasury project) and the Ivan Filipović Award, which was awarded to her in 2021 by the Committee for Education, Science and Culture of the Croatian Parliament for her contribution to higher education. In 2020, the Croatian Travel Agencies Association (UHPA) and WAY magazine honored her in the Person of the Year category with the Simply the Best award for innovations in tourism.
