Marijana Dukić Mijatović was born in  1975 in Kula. She enrolled at the University in Novi Sad at the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad in the school year 1994/1995 and graduated in 1999. In the same year, she enrolled in the post-graduate studies course of Commercial Law at the University in Novi Sad at the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad. She passed the Bar Exam in 2002 with a distinction. She defended her master's thesis entitled "Realizing Insurance Compensation" in 2004 at the University in Novi Sad at the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad. In 2008, she defended her doctoral dissertation titled "Protection of Creditors in Bankruptcy" at the Faculty of Law of the University Business Academy in Novi Sad. Marijana Dukić Mijatović is associate professor at the University of Novi Sad at the Faculty of Tehnical Sciences at the Chair of Social Studies. She was employed at the University of Novi Sad at the Faculty of Economics in Subotica, where she teaches Business Law and Banking and Stock Law, as well as several courses in master and doctoral studies. Marijana Dukić Mijatović is also employed at the Faculty of Law of the University Business Academy in Novi Sad, where she was elected as a full professor in 2016. She holds a position of State secretary of the Ministry of Education(2023.-), after her mandate of State Secretary in Ministry of Education(2022-2023) and Ministry of education, Science and Tecnological Development of the Republic of Serbia(2020-2022). From 2010 until March 2014, she had held a position of Vice Dean for Science and International Cooperation at the Faculty of Law of the University Business academy, until she was appointed as Manager of the Local Economic Development Office of the City of Novi Sad (2014-2016). She was the Advisor to the Mayor of Novi Sad for investments and implementation of strategic projects (2016-2020). She held the positions of Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Public Company for Construction  and Development of the City of Novi Sad (2012), President of the Assembly of Shareholders of Novi Sad Port (2013-2014) and President of the Supervisory Board of Dnevnik holding jsc Novi Sad (2014). She was the representative of the republic capital in the Port of Novi Sad (2016-2018). During the school year 2012/2013, Marijana Dukić Mijatović was engaged as a visiting professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Vitez in Travnik Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Law of the Conflict of Laws study course. She was the editor of the Law, Theory and Practice journal (2012-2015), several collections of works of scientific conferences, and the head of scientific projects. She was a member of the Editorial Board of the Kultura polisa magazine (M51) and reviewer of the Review of International Affairs (M51) and Agroekonomika (M51). She is a coordinator of the Working Group for the adoption and implementation of the Sustainable Development Strategy of the City of Novi Sad for the period from 2016 to 2020 and the coordinator of the Working Group for the implementation of strategic economic projects of importance to the City of Novi Sad. She was a head of the negotiating team of the City of Novi Sad for investment projects Delphi Packard doo Novi Sad, Lear Corporation doo Novi Sad, Continental Automotive doo Novi Sad, CTP Serbia,  Barry Callebaut, BMTS Technology ? NIDEC. She was a Member of the National Council for Higher Education of the Republic of Serbia (2018-2020 )and a member of the Steering Committee of the Housing Fund for Young Scientists and Artists (2014-2020). She is also the examiner in the Commission for passing the Bar Examination of AP Vojvodina (2016-2020 ). By the Decision of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, which was adopted in 2020, at the request of the Institute for International Politics and Economics in Belgrade, she received a scientific title as a higher scientific associate. She received Kapetan Miša Anastasijević Award for 2015 for development projects and development of business environment in Novi Sad, as well as the best manager award in public entrepreneurship at the national level in 2017. She is the author of seven books and over 120 scientific and professional papers, of which 20 papers (M22 and M23) were published in prominent journals indexed on the Thompson Royters list. She is married and is a mother of a son Vuk.