Goran Sunajko was born in 1978 in Zagreb. He is an assistant professor and senior research associate at the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Zagreb), of which he has been the head since 2020 and the head of the Department of Aesthetics. He has published 6 author's books, 33 scientific, 10 professional and 11 popular papers; he is the editor of 5 scientific books and the author of over 500 encyclopedic articles in philosophy, political science and culture. He holds a master degree in political science (political philosophy) from the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb and a doctorate in philosophy from the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. He deals with ontology, aesthetics and philosophy of politics, and his particular focus is on contemporary aesthetics, phenomenology, French Enlightenment philosophy, philosophy of existence and philosophy of French existentialism.
He worked as an encyclopedist at the The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography (2005-2019), where he was the editor of the Postmodern Lexicon (pending), a member of the editorial board of the Croatian General Encyclopedia, the Croatian Biographical Lexicon, and a member of the Lexicon of Philosophy, the Lexicon of Literary and Cultural Terminology, and executive editor of the Lexicon of Economics.
He is a member of the Croatian Philosophical Society and the Center for Democracy and Law Miko Tripalo (member of the Board) and a member of the editorial board of the journals: Filozofska istraživanja, Synthesis philosophica, Studia lexicographica and Annals of the Croatian Political Science Association. He is also a member of the Organizing Committee of the International Symposium Days of Frane Petrić in Cres, Vice President of the Croatian Philosophical Society (2017-2018), President of the Organizing Committee of the International Scientific Symposium War and Peace (2015), Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Scientific Symposium Reformation and Revolution. 2017), member of the Organizing Committee of the International Scientific Symposium Philosophy and Creativity (2018) and member of the Organizing Committee of the International Scientific Conference International Cultural Relations of the European Union - Europe, the World, Croatia, Center for Democracy and Law Miko Tripalo / Culturelink-IRMO / Observatoire des politiques culturallles, France.
He is the editor-host of Literary Friday at the Zagreb City Library.
