Tihana Banko was born in Zagreb. She graduated from English Department and Art History Department of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 2002. In 2018 she enrolled in a PhD study of Lifelong Teaching and Learning with the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb. She spent her 20-year-long teaching career in diverse and multicultural environments, first working in language schools in Zagreb and then in international schools and colleges in the Middle East, where she taught academic writing, speech communication and study skills. Her approach to teaching is student-centered, holistic and project-oriented. In recent years, Tihana Banko focused her professional work on international students and their linguistic and cultural integration into Croatian education system and Croatian lifestyle. Her academic interests, apart from philology, belong to the interdisciplinary field of social sciences and humanities, particularly multiculturalism, gender studies, sociology and psychology of education. She is the coauthor of English language textbooks for early learning and a speaker at national and international professional conferences