Alan Wall

Alan Wall is an electoral and democracy development consultant. He is a co-author of International IDEA’s Handbook of Electoral Management Design, one of the initial lead writers for the ACE Project, and a contributor to the current Electoral Management and Voting Operations sections of the ACE Encyclopedia. Since mid 2010 Alan has been Country Director for IFES in Nepal. During 2008/9 Alan managed a project developing quantitative research skills in Timor-Leste, and has been a consultant to EISA's project on developing sustainable voter registration systrems in Africa, and to UNDP Bhutan on absentee voting systems. From 2006-2008 he managed a program of national opinion polls on democratic governance issues in Indonesia. In second quarter 2007 he was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Multi-Party Democracy, focusing on electoral and party systems issues. During 2005/2006 he was Indonesia Country Director for Democracy International, providing assistance for local government elections and the transition process in Aceh. Other recent assignments include a review of voter registration systems for the Ukrainian CEC, and an evaluation of voter registration in Iraq for IMIE. From 1999 to 2004 he was a C0untry Director for IFES: in 1999/2000 in Azerbaijan and 2000-2004 in Indonesia. Other postings include as the United Nations’ Chief Technical Advisor to the Independent Nigerian Election Commission (INEC) in 1998, as Deputy Chief Electoral Officer for the United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia in 1996, and as an advisor to the South African government for the local government elections of 1995. From 1984 to 1994 he held various senior management positions with the Australian Electoral Commission.

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