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Nadiia Ivanova

People in Need

Nadiia Ivanova, Prague-based specialist on human rights, alumna of National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (2010) and University of Economics in Prague (2012), holds BSc in Finance and MSc in Management of Public Sphere and Regional Development. 

Her career in human rights started in 2010, when she volunteered for Amnesty International Ukraine. She subsequently interned at Amnesty International Czech Republic and then the Czech Development Agency. Ms. Ivanova also participated in the Swedish Institute Summer School “Human Rights in an Open Society” in Sweden (2011).  

Since 2014, Ms. Ivanova has been working in People in Need, Central Eastern Europe’s largest NGO, at the Center for Human Rights and Democracy. She first coordinated projects in Transnistrian region of Moldova and from 2017, she led a team for capacity-building projects (Transnistria, Ukraine, Russia, Armenia). Since 2019, she has been heading the entire East European program, becoming Deputy Director of the Center for Human Rights and Democracy in 2021 and Director in 2022.

Ms. Ivanova is a native speaker of Ukrainian and Russian, proficient in English and Czech.