The judges for each challenge include FFZG students, primarily pre-service EFL teachers, followed by FFZG teaching staff relevant to the respective challenge, and finally native speakers and experts in the relevant domain.
Here are our TEC 2026 judges:
FFZG student judges (pre-service EFL teachers)
Kristina Krakić, Nina Pejnović, Kristina Horki, Željana Lazić, Jana Ajduković, Korina Rubinić, Christian Šilović, Anja Puljak, Lucija Humić, Greta Mikec, Lana Blažinić, Filip Stjepanović, Valentina Petra Eterović Buble, Rujana Tenšek.
FFZG faculty judges
Lada Čale Feldman
Lada Čale Feldman is a Full Professor and Chair of Theatre Studies at the Department for Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in Croatia. Her areas of research are theatre and performance studies, and feminist criticism. Besides her two co-authored and eight authored books in Croatian – the last one, Molièere ponovljen (Molière repeated), was published in 2025 – she also co-edited several special issues of journals and numerous collections, among which in English (with I. Prica and R. Senjković), Fear, Death and Resistance: Croatia 1991-92, 1993. and (with M. Blažević) Misperformance: essays in shifting perspectives, 2014. She is a recipient of six (five national and one international) awards.
Matija Ivačić
Diana Tomić
Diana Tomić is an Assistant Professor and Chair of Applied Phonetics at the Department of Phonetics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in Croatia. Her research areas are speech development, oracy and oratory. Her book Public Speaking for Teachers, published in 2024, includes a chapter on Classroom Debate that offers a deeper insight into debating as a learning process.
She served as the Head of Center for Teacher Education (2021-2025), developed two interdisciplinary MA programs (Applied Cognitive Science & Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics), and is currently working on the development of LLE programs.
External judges (Native speakers / Experts)
Richard Mason Rodgers
Ambassador of Australia to the Republic of Croatia
Ambassador Rodgers is a career officer with DFAT and was last Director, Afghanistan Political and Central Asia Section. He has previously served overseas as Chargé d’Affaires, Interim Mission on Afghanistan, Doha, Chargé d’Affaires/Deputy Head of Mission, Australian Embassy, Kabul (2020-2021); Counsellor (Political), Australian Embassy, Manila (2014-2017); First Secretary, Australian High Commission, Dhaka (2005-2008); and Third, then Second Secretary, Australian High Commission, Singapore (1999-2002).
In Canberra, he served with DFAT as Director, United Nations Political, Commonwealth and Candidacies Section (2017-2020); Director, Space and Strategic Policy Section (2013-2014); Director, Indonesia Economic and Timor-Leste Section (2010-2013); and Assistant Director, People Smuggling, Refugees and Immigration Section (2008-2010). Mr Rodgers holds a Master of International Affairs from the Australian National University (2004) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Adelaide (1990).
Andreas Capstack
Ameet Kabrawala
Don Markušić
Celebrating passion for English