Ivan Paladina (born 12 June 1983) is a Croatian economist, consultant and politician who served as the Minister of Construction, Physical Planning and State Property from 2022 to 2023.
While working as a consultant, he was involved in multiple projects tied to Russian and Israeli investors in Croatia, including the controversial and never-realized Kupari and Golf investment projects near Dubrovnik.
[2][3] Paladina was born on 12 June 1983 in Rijeka, Croatia, than part of SFR Yugoslavia.
He ran his own company Delta savjetovanje, he was also a member of the board of directors and from 2015 to 2017 the president of Institut IGH, a company operating in the construction sector.
In March 2022 (as a non-partisan on the recommendation of the Croatian Democratic Union), he became Ministry of Construction, Spatial Planning and State Property in the second government of Andrej Plenković.