Marijana Grandits is the new IICP Co-Director.

She is also currently working with the International Aids Society. Until 2008, she headed the Working Table on Democratisation and Human Rights of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe in Brussels. She is a founding member of the Austrian Green Party and the women's coalition in the Austrian Parliament. She was a Member of the Austrian Parliament between 1990 and 1994. She has also worked on various ORF documentaries, including from 1989–1990 on a three-part documentary "Die Jüdische Margerite", as well as being the director of the Europahaus in Eisenstadt.

Throughout the 1990s, Ms. Grandits was active in projects related to reconciliation and democratisation in the former Yugoslavia. She is also a leading voice in the Verona Forum - a group of intellectuals working toward peace and reconciliation in South Eastern Europe - and has been active in the Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights and other leading Austrian NGOs. She has been a member of the Human Rights Commission of the Austrian Ministry of Interior since 2000.

Ms. Grandits is a regular lecturer at the European Masters Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation. She holds a Masters degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, as well as a degree in Slavic Studies and Sport Studies from the University of Vienna.