Milan Balaban was born on 03.07.1981, in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He finished his bachelor studies at University of Banja Luka and his master and doctoral studies at the Masaryk University in Czech Republic, where he defended his dissertation project with the topic” Yugoslav-Czechoslovak Economic Relations between 1918-1938 year”. He had worked at Department of History in Banja Luka and since 2015 has worked as scientific researcher-historian at the Bata Information Centre at Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic. His main research areas are history of the Bata Company and Czechoslovak-Yugoslav economic relations. M. Balaban is author of numerous articles published in Czech and foreign scientific journals and he recently published monograph: The Bata Company in Yugoslavia (Zlín 2018, ISBN: 978-80-7454-800-0).