Edo Kanlić graduated from the Department of International Relations at Ankara University in 2018, and a year later he got a Master’s degree in Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Sarajevo and the University of Bologna. He worked at Sarajevo Open Center from December 2021 to December 2023 at the position of programme coordinator of the Initiative for Monitoring the European Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the informal initiative “BiH Civil Society for UPR”. He is a longtime activist in the fields of human rights, dealing with the past, memorialization and civic participation. He currently works at Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina as Advocacy and Public Policy Manager.