Gordan Grlić-Radman is a Croatian diplomat and politician serving as Minister of Foreign and European Affairs since July 2019. Grlić-Radman started his career in business, working in Switzerland for Melior-Haefliger AG from 1984 to 1991. In those years, he was active in the Croatian diaspora as President of the Croatian Cultural Community in Switzerland (1984–1988) and co-sponsor of the Croatian-Swiss Business Consult with Davor Pavuna. From 1991 to 1992, Grlić-Radman worked as Business Secretary of the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb  and volunteered for the Office for Refugees and Displaced Persons of the Government of Croatia and for the Croatian Health Service (Humanitarian Aid). 
In 1992 and later, Grlić-Radman helped set up the diplomatic and consular missions of newly independent Croatia in Bern, Geneva and Zürich. Grlić-Radman then served in the Croatian embassies to Bulgaria (1994–1996) and Hungary, to then return at the Croatian Foreign Ministry until 2012. In 2012, Grlić-Radman was appointed Ambassador to Hungary and in October 2017, he was appointed as Ambassador to Germany. Grlić-Radman graduated in International Relations from the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb, where he obtained a PhD in 2007.