Julie Ballington

Julie Ballington is the Gender Advisor, Global Programme for Electoral Cycle Support (GPECS), in the Democratic Governance Group at UNDP. She formerly served as specialist in the Gender Partnership Programme at the Inter-Parliamentary Union based in Geneva, where she worked on enhancing women’s participation in parliaments, electoral processes and within political parties. From 2001-2005 she was responsible for the Women in Politics Programme at International IDEA in Stockholm, where she initiated the global project on Electoral Quotas for Women. She previously worked at the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa (EISA) based in Johannesburg, managing the work on gender related aspects of electoral participation and administration in southern Africa. She was also seconded for a short time to the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa. She has participated in several electoral observation missions in Africa and the Middle East. Julie holds a Masters degree in political science from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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