Fabio Bargiacchi

Fabio Bargiacchi since January 2007 is serving as Senior Electoral Assistance Advisor at the UN/UNDP Brussels Office with the main task of coordinating the activities of the EC-UNDP Joint Task Force on Electoral Assistance. His work aims at increasing the overall efficiency and adherence of the projects to the common EC-UNDP strategic approach. His activities focus on the identification, formulation and support to the implementation of all EC-UNDP electoral assistance projects. From October 2004 till December 2006 he worked as the Election Specialist at the Directorate for Operations Quality Support of the European Commission. Fabio has been the project coordinator and co-author of the EC Methodological Guide on Electoral Assistance, the co-drafter of the "EC-UNDP Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of Electoral Assistance Projects" and of the ACE Focus on Effectve Electoral Assistance and he contributed to the UNDP Implementation Guide on Electoral Assistance. Fabio has also a previous extensive experience in election observation and electoral assistance with the EU, the UN and the OSCE. Since 1997 he served in positions such as, for instance, Senior Election Operations Expert in West Bank & Gaza, Training/Reporting Advisor in Tanzania, Coordinator of Election Observers in Indonesia, Suriname and Zimbabwe and Electoral Logistician in Haiti. He also has broad experience in managing projects in the Democratic Governance fields gained, in particular, from working for the Delegation of the EC in Mozambique for two years. Fabio dealt with electoral and democratization processes in more than 30 different countries between Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Fabio graduated in Political Science following studies at the University of Florence and at the "Universite Libre de Bruxelles" and holds a MA on Society, Science and Technology from the University of Oslo.