Ivan Kašćelan has obtained his MA degree within the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Programme at three universities – Charles University in Prague, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and Leiden University in Leiden, where he defended his master’s thesis “Between Compliance and Defiance: Evaluating Montenegro’s Performance in the Rule of Law and Judicial Reforms and the Struggle for Genuine Progress.” Previously, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Humanities at the University of Donja Gorica, with his second year at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg as an Erasmus+ exchange student. He further specialized in the field of human rights and freedoms, particularly the rights of vulnerable groups, as well as in Montenegro’s European integration process, and he completed the School of Objectivism, organized by the Ayn Rand Center Europe. As a delegate, he represented Montenegro at the 36th Annual International Model NATO, organized by Howard University and Converse University, and participated in the Council of Europe Negotiation Model held in Strasbourg, organized by the Fédération pour la Diplomatie et les Nations Unies (FDNU) and the CoE. Also, he took part in several regional academic projects supported through the Erasmus+ programme and the Western Balkans Fund and attended numerous seminars in Montenegro and abroad. He gained first professional experience as an intern at the Parliament of Montenegro, providing administrative and research support to one of the parliamentary committees, and at the National Democratic Institute (NDI) office in Montenegro, where he carried out various administrative, research, and analytical tasks. Fluent in English, with knowledge also of German and Italian.
