Ana-Maria Sunko, mag.iur.  was qualified to start her research on gender-balanced boards in the lights of the proposed Women's on Board Directive and their regulation in 2017 under the supervision of Professor Snjezana Vasiljevic. Her paper was awarded a Dean’s award in July 2017. The joint research is published in the Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy under the title “EU Law & Gender-Balanced Boards: Making Equality Effective”. Ana-Maria is one of the students who completed her traineeship at the Office of the Ombudsperson for Gender Equality. She was the top student in the “EU Law & Gender” course.