Ivan Novosel

Ivan Novosel is the Programme Director of the Human Rights House Zagreb since 2015, where he coordinates research, monitoring, advocacy and educational activities aimed to uphold and promote human rights, with a special focus on freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, right of human rights defenders, socio-economic rights, the rule of law, democratic institutions, rights , national minorities and LGBTIQ persons.

Ivan is a member of Ombudsperson’s Human Rights Council and Government’s Advisory Council on Civil Society Development.

Ivan holds an M.A. in Human Rights from the Central European University, Legal Studies Department, Hungary, and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science, Croatia. He was an Open Society Justice Initiative Fellow in 2012/14.