Fabio Bargiacchi is presently serving as Senior Electoral Assistance Specialist at the UN/UNDP Brussels Office with the 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 Election Specialist at the Directorate for Operations Quality Support of the European Commission. He was in charge of the implementation of the operations quality support activities for the EC Electoral Assistance projects. Fabio has been also 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 he then 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 Observers in Indonesia, Suriname and Zimbabwe and Electoral Logistician in Haiti. He also has broad experience in managing projects in the Democratic Governance field gained, in particular, from working for the Delegation of the European Commission in Mozambique for two years. Fabio dealt with electoral and democratization processes in Europe, Africa, South-East Asia, Latin America and the Middle East in more than 30 different countries. Fabio graduated in Political Science and postgraduated in in Society-Science-Technology and International Politics.