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.
