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Andrew EllisAndrew Ellis is a senior consultant on elections, constitutions and democracy building based in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK. Until early 2014 he was Director for Asia and the Pacific for International IDEA, a global intergovernmental organisation whose mission is to support locally owned and sustainable democratic change worldwide, and previously served as IDEA’s Director of Operations and as Head of the Electoral Processes Programme. He has wide experience as a technical adviser on electoral and institutional matters in democratic transitions. He acted as Senior Adviser for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Indonesia from 1999 to 2003, working with members of the Indonesian legislature dealing with constitutional amendment and reform of electoral and political laws, and on the practicalities of decentralisation. He is the coauthor of many IDEA knowledge resources, including ‘Electoral System Design: The New International IDEA Handbook’, the ‘Electoral Management Design Handbook’, the ‘Voting Abroad Handbook’, the ‘Direct Democracy Handbook’, the ‘Electoral Justice Handbook’ and of numerous papers on institutional framework design questions. Other major assignments have included acting as Chief Technical Adviser to the Palestinian Election Commission for the first Palestinian elections in 1996, and designing the European Commission’s electoral assistance programme in Cambodia for the 1998 elections. Andrew is a former Vice Chair and Secretary General of the UK Liberal Party and Chief Executive of the UK Liberal Democrats, stood four times for the UK Parliament, and served as an elected member of a major UK local authority. He was awarded the OBE by the UK in 1984. |
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Voter Education Civil Society and Elections Direct Democracy Electoral Assistance Electoral Dispute Resolution Electoral Integrity and Dispute Resolution Electoral Management Electoral Observation Participation Electoral Systems Gender and Elections Legal Framework Media and Elections Minority and Refugee Voting Voting from Abroad Parties and Candidates Vote Counting Voter Registration Voter Turnout Voting Operations Youth Participation |
