Ross Attrill

At the moment I am Assistant Director - Capacity Building Courses in the International Services Section of the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). My background is in Secondary Education where I taught for 17 years. My field of expertise being Civic Education. Since joining the AEC in 1996 I spent 5 years managing the Electoral Education Centre in Melbourne and for the last 6 years I have been the intenational Co-ordinator of the BRIDGE Project, a comprehensive and innovative course in electoral process. I have implemented BRIDGE for the AEC, IDEA, IFES and the UN all around the globe, including Armenia, Georgia, Yemen, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, PNG, South Africa and Australia.