Salima Namusobya is the Executive Director of the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) in Uganda. She is a lawyer and human rights advocate who has specialized in international human rights law and forced migration. She is currently the chairperson of the Legal Aid Service Providers' Network in Uganda, and is a member of the Uganda Law Society and the East Africa Law Society. She has completed courses on litigating social and economic rights from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Institute for Human Rights at the Abo Akademi in Turku. She has co-authored a textbook on Civil Procedure and Practice in Uganda. Previously, she worked in various capacities with the Refugee Law Project (RLP), School of Law, Makerere University and also served as the Eastern Africa Coordinator for International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC).