Sara Staino has worked with the Electoral Processes Programme of International IDEA since early 2004. In this capacity, she has performed several functions; representing IDEA in the ACE Project Management Committee tasked with the conceptualization and implementation of the ACE Electoral Knowledge Network; as a lead writer for the "Electoral Management" topic area of the ACE Encyclopaedia; and as IDEA Project Manager for the ACE Course Correction process. Sara is also co-author and editorial anchor of the newly published IDEA handbook on “Electoral Management Design”. Sara was previously a University Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Örebro, Sweden, teaching International Studies and Electoral Management and Observation. She has been an international election observer in a number of electoral observation missions for the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and regularly acts as a Chairperson of a polling station commission in Sweden. Sara is a semi-accredited BRIDGE Facilitator and a graduate of the University of Örebro, Sweden, in political science.