José Miguel Vivanco Inostroza (born January 3, 1961) is a Chilean human rights lawyer, and the former executive director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch.

Vivanco graduated as a lawyer from the University of Chile and later studied for a master's degree in law from Harvard.

After graduating from his master's degree, he worked at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS), first as a legal advisor and then as a lawyer.

In 1990 he founded the Center for Justice and International Law (Cejil), a non-governmental organization that presents complaints about the region to international human rights organizations.

[1][2][3] In 1994 Vivanco began serving as executive director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch.