Tomislav Sokol graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb in 2006. In 2009, he obtained a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.), specializing in European Union law at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) in Belgium. He earned his PhD at the same university in 2014, defending a dissertation on the free movement of cross-border healthcare services in the EU and its impact on national health insurance systems. Since 2017, he served as Assistant Minister at the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education, after which he became a Member of the Croatian Parliament. Since July 2019, he has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament.
He is Vice-Chair of the Intergroup on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Freedom of Conscience, EPP Coordinator in the Committee on Public Health (SANT), and a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO). He is also a substitute member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) in the European Parliament. He is currently the European Parliament rapporteur for the Critical Medicines Act, as well as the EPP Group rapporteur for the Industrial Accelerator Act. He also served as the European
Parliament’s rapporteur for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) and as the EPP Group rapporteur for the reform of pharmaceutical legislation. To date, he has published more than 20 scientific papers and one book on topics related to European Union law.
