Alan Wall is an electoral and democracy development consultant. He is a co-author of International IDEA’s Handbook of Electoral Management Design, one of the initial lead writers for the ACE Project, and a contributor to the current Electoral Management and Voting Operations sections of the ACE Encyclopedia. Alan is Senior Advisor - Elections for Washington-based consultancy firm Democracy International. During 2008 Alan is managing a project developing quantitative research skills in Timor-Leste, and from 2006-2008 has managed a program of national opinion polls in Indonesia. In second quarter 2007 he was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Multi-Party Democracy, focusing on electoral and party systems issues. During 2005 and 2006 he was Indonesia Country Director for Democracy International’s local government election assistance programs in Indonesia. Other recent assignments include a review of voter registration systems for the Ukrainian CEC, and an evaluation of voter registration in Iraq for IMIE. From 2000 to 2004 he managed IFES’ Indonesian activities, encompassing programs assisting electoral, legal, media and parliamentary reform and civil society development. Alan managed IFES’ democracy assistance projects for the 1999 local government elections in Azerbaijan. Other postings include as the United Nations’ Chief Technical Advisor to the Independent Nigerian Election Commission (INEC) in 1998, as Deputy Chief Electoral Officer for the United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia in 1996, and as an advisor to the South African government for the local government elections of 1995. From 1984 to 1994 he held various senior management positions with the Australian Electoral Commission.