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Member of an Electoral Management Body/Election Commission

Michael Maley

Michael Maley is Director of International Services at the Australian Electoral Commission, and has been a full-time electoral administrator for more than 20 years. He served 1989 as a consultant to the Electoral Division of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group in Namibia; in 1992-93 as Senior Deputy Chief Electoral Officer of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (in which capacity he was the senior Australian civilian in the mission); and in 1994 as Deputy Director of the Electoral Division of the United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa. He has also taken part in UN survey missions in Western Sahara and Eastern Slavonia, has served as an adviser at UN Headquarters, and has been a consultant to International IDEA, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and IFES. In 2001 he spent four months with the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, where he was one of three international Commissioners of the Independent Electoral Commission which organised the election held on 30 August 2001. He has lectured and published extensively on issues relating to elections and peacekeeping, and was awarded the Public Service Medal in the 2001 Australia Day honours list for his work in the area.

Thematic Areas of Expertise

Boundary Delimitation
Elections and Technology
Electoral Assistance
Electoral Dispute Resolution
Electoral Integrity and Dispute Resolution
Electoral Management
Electoral Observation
Electoral Systems
Legal Framework
Minority and Refugee Voting
Voting from Abroad
Vote Counting
Voter Registration
Voting Operations