Luis Arias Núñez is the president of the Plenary of the Central Electoral Board in the Dominican Republic
and a former judge.
Reginald Austin has extensive experience of election management.
Nadja Braun is currently working as a legal adviser in the Political Rights Section
of the Swiss Federal Chancellery (the Swiss federal electoral management body).
She has wide experience in the field of e-voting and direct democracy.
Leticia Calderón-Chelius is a researcher and professor at
the José María Mora Institute in Mexico City and
a member of the National Researchers System in Mexico.
Manuel Carrillo has been chief of staff for international
affairs at the Federal Electoral Institute of Mexico (Instituto Federal
Electoral, IFE)
since 1993.
Arlinda Chantre joined the Portuguese Directorate General for Electoral Management in 2003.
She works mainly on the legal bases of voter registration and elections.
Linda Edgeworth has been a consultant specializing in
international election law andadministration for 16 years and is associated
with such organizations as IFES (formerly called the International Foundation
for Election Systems), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
(OSCE) Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and the UN.
Andrew Ellis is currently the Director of Operations at
International IDEA in Stockholm.
Jeff Fischer is the team leader for Elections and Political
Process programming at Creative Associates International, Inc. where he leads
initiatives to establish and conduct programmes to develop democratic processes
and culture.
Jon Fraenkel is a senior research fellow in governance at
the Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development and Governance
(PIAS-DG) at the University of the South Pacific.
Maria Gratschew joined International IDEA in 1999 as project
manager responsible for the Voter Turnout Project
(<http://www.idea.int/turnout>) and worked mainly on voter turnout and
civic education, election administration, external voting and compulsory voting
issues in International IDEA’s Design of Democratic Institutions and Processes Programme
(formerly the Elections Team).
Phil Green has been the electoral commissioner for the
Australian Capital Territory (ACT) since 1994, having previously worked for the
Australian Electoral Commission from 1982 to 1992 in a variety of roles,
including director for information and director for legislation and research.
Florian Grotz is adjunct professor (“Privatdozent”) for
political science at the Free University of Berlin.
Nada Hadzimehic has been involved in the conduct of elections
since 1996 when she was employed by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina for the
country’s first postwar elections.
Graham Hassall is professor of governance at the Pacific
Institute for Advanced Studies in Development and Governance, University of the
South Pacific.
Jacobo Hernández Cruz is a lawyer and notary from the
Universidad Autónoma de Honduras.
Brett Lacy has served since 2006 as a programme officer
at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in the United States, where she contributes to
democracy and governance programmes in Central and West
Africa.
Stina Larserud joined International IDEA in 2003 and has
acted as project manager for the Electoral System Design Project, primarily
with Electoral System Design: The New International IDEA Handbook (2005).
Marina Costa Lobo is a political scientist researcher at the
Instituto de Ciências Sociais at the University
of Lisbon, where she co-directs
a project on Portuguese electoral behaviour and political attitudes.
Pasquale Lupoli is the head of the Operations Support
Department of the IOM.
Epp Maaten is a councillor at the Elections Department of
the Chancellery of the Estonian Parliament, the Riigikogu.
Patrick Molutsi is currently the executive secretary of
Botswana Tertiary Education. He was formerly head of the Political
Participation and Democracy Assessment Methodology Programme at International
IDEA.
Isabel Morales joined the International Affairs Unit of the IFE in Mexico
in 2002, working initially with the Department of International Liaison and
Political Affairs.
Simon-Pierre Nanitelamio, an electoral expert from the
Republic of the Congo
(Congo-Brazzaville), is currently the chief technical adviser of the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) technical assistance project for the
electoral process in Mozambique.
Carlos Navarro Fierro has been an official of the IFE since 1993 and is currently director of electoral
studies and political affairs at the IFE’s
International Department.
Dieter Nohlen is professor emeritus of political science at
the University of Heidelberg and a well-known expert on electoral
systems, political development and democratization, with a focus on Latin America.
Nydia Restrepo de Acosta is a magistrate and former president
of the National Electoral Council in Colombia.
Nuias Silva is currently the general director of electoral
administration in Cape Verde,
and since 2004 has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Imprensa
Nacional de Cabo Verde, SA, being in charge of the Department of New
Technologies.
Catinca Slavu is an electoral consultant who carried out an
assignment with IFES as deputy director of the Out-of-Country Voting Program
for Iraq’s
2005 Transitional National Assembly election, conducted by the IOM.
Judy Thompson is a former deputy chief electoral officer for
Manitoba, Canada. She served on a national
committee to develop voter education programmes for first-time voters,
including new Canadians, and is currently working as an election consultant internationally.
Ozias Tungwarara is currently deputy director of AfriMAP, a
programme of the Open Society Institute that seeks to strengthen civil society
capacity to monitor and advocate for African governments’ compliance with human
rights and governance commitments.
Richard Vengroff, PhD is a professor of political science at
the University of Connecticutspecializing in development management,
comparative politics (Africa and Canada/
Quebec) and
comparative electoral systems.
Kåre Vollan is a private consultant combining management
consulting work with advisory services on electoral systems and electoral processes.
Alan Wall is an electoral consultant. From 2000 to 2004
he was manager of IFES’ Indonesian activities, encompassing programmes
assisting electoral, legal, media, parliamentary reform and civil society
development.
