Name	Email
Fabio Bargiacchi	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Fabio Bargiacchi since January 2007 is serving as Senior Electoral Assistance Advisor at the UN/UNDP Brussels Office with the main task of coordinating the activities of the EC-UNDP Joint Task Force on Electoral Assistance. His work aims at increasing the overall efficiency and adherence of the projects to the common EC-UNDP strategic approach. His activities focus on the identification, formulation and support to the implementation of all EC-UNDP electoral assistance projects. From October 2004 till December 2006 he worked as the Election Specialist at the Directorate for Operations Quality Support of the European Commission. Fabio has been the project coordinator and co-author of the EC Methodological Guide on Electoral Assistance, the co-drafter of the "EC-UNDP Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of Electoral Assistance Projects" and of the ACE Focus on Effectve Electoral Assistance and he contributed to the UNDP Implementation Guide on Electoral Assistance. Fabio has also a previous extensive experience in election observation and electoral assistance with the EU, the UN and the OSCE. Since 1997 he served in positions such as, for instance, Senior Election Operations Expert in West Bank & Gaza, Training/Reporting Advisor in Tanzania, Coordinator of Election Observers in Indonesia, Suriname and Zimbabwe and Electoral Logistician in Haiti. He also has broad experience in managing projects in the Democratic Governance fields gained, in particular, from working for the Delegation of the EC in Mozambique for two years. Fabio dealt with electoral and democratization processes in more than 30 different countries between Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Fabio graduated in Political Science following studies at the University of Florence and at the "Universite Libre de Bruxelles" and holds a MA on Society, Science and Technology from the University of Oslo.
Ricardo Gomes	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Ricardo Godinho Gomes is working as Electoral Assistance Expert supporting the Joint Task Force in the project activities in favour of the 2009-2011 electoral cycles of the PALOP/TL countries. In addition, he will ensure support to formulation/implementation issues, evaluations and lessons learned exercises in the broader JTF’s training and knowledge dissemination activities, especially on the face to face and elearning training modules. Ricardo Gomes has joined UNDP in 2006 as an electoral assistance project manager. Since 2007 he has been the Guinea-Bissau’s UNDP CO Democratic Governance programme officer responsible for the electoral assistance project and for the parliamentary capacity development programme. He is a political scientist with published articles regarding the Guinea-Bissau’s electoral system and he was the national consultant responsible for the 2006 National Human Development Report democratic governance chapter.
Franklin De Vrieze	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Franklin De Vrieze studied political science and international relations at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. From August 2001 until December 2008, he worked for the OSCE Mission in Kosovo as coordinator of the “Assembly Support Initiative”. In this capacity he oversaw, coordinated and ensured consistency between international parliamentary capacity building programs and technical assistance projects with the Assembly of Kosovo. As Chief of Section of the Central Assembly and Political Parties Section in the OSCE Mission, he developed a consolidated policy on parliamentary development in terms of the legislative and oversight functions of parliament, outreach and inter-parliamentary relations, Assembly Secretariat functioning, and procedural monitoring of the Assembly’s work. In addition to his work on the Balkans, Franklin De Vrieze also published and was engaged in a broad campaign leading to the adoption of the Belgian law banning anti-personal landmines (1993 - 1995) and was part of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). His area of research and advocacy included topics such as small arms and light weapons, European security, humanitarian assistance and intervention. In January 2009 Franklin joined UNDP as the Program Manager of the ‘Global Program on Parliamentary Strengthening’ (GPPS).
Olivier Louveaux	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Olivier Pierre-Louveaux joints the UNDP Brussels Office as Parliamentary Development expert and acts as focal point for the New-York based Parliamentary Development team. He is a lawyer and constitutional specialist who has worked for the last 6 years within Parliaments. Within UNDP, he participates in the coordination of the various components of the Global Programme for Parliamentary Strengthening, facilitates to bring new development and partnership perspectives such as with the EC-UNDP Partnership in Electoral Assistance and provides as well policy analysis and technical backstopping to UNDP Country Offices. He previously worked with the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and most recently was an advisor on constitutional and international issues within the Belgian Senate. Olivier has also undertaken a series of parliamentary capacity development missions namely in Congo (DR), Kosovo and Iraq and worked as Project Officer of Caritas in Western Sahara.
Mette Bakken	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Mette Bakken is working as Electoral Assistance Officer. She works with projects related to face-to-face and e-learning modules on effective electoral assistance and ICTs in electoral processes. Her work forms an integral part of her PhD studies at the European University institute in Florence. In her PhD she focuses on the politics of electoral system choice in world democracies in the post-WW2 period. More specifically, the thesis aims to explore the impact of (“egoistic”) self-interests and (“democracy-maximizing”) general interests when politicians decide upon the rules by which they are elected as well as the effect of institutional constraints upon conscious electoral system reform. Previously she has done research on electoral system effects in democratizing states and civic participation in Europe. Mette Bakken is a Norwegian national and holds an MPhil in comparative politics.
Eliane Torres	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Eliane Torres is working as Electoral Assistance and Parliamentary Development Officer, since December 2009. She supports the Joint Task Force in the project activities in favour of the 2009-2011 electoral cycles of the PALOP/TL countries as well as in favour of the Global Programme for Parliamentary Strengthening. Previously, she was part of the IDEA consultant team for the European Commission Study on strategies and methodologies for EC action in support to Parliaments. In addition, Eliane participated in EU Electoral Observation Missions in Togo, Rwanda and recently in Afghanistan as a long term observer. Besides NGO work as legal adviser for asylum seekers and project officer on Development Education, she also performed consular and liaison duties for the Portuguese diplomatic mission in Cyprus. She holds the UNESCO funded European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation as well as a specialization in Humanitarian Aid and Development Cooperation from the Modern University in Lisbon. Eliane is a Portuguese national.
Tomas Matraia	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Tomas Matraia joined the EC-UNDP Joint Task Force on Electoral Assistance in February 2010 in the capacity of Electoral Assistance and Parliamentary Development Officer. His work focuses on improving the synergies between parliamentary development and electoral assistance and on the operational guidance and management of Joint EC-UDP electoral assistance projects. He is also building the JTF’s Communications Strategy and enhances content dissemination to media and through the promotion of knowledge products. Tomas got his Bachelor in Political Sciences and a Master in International Relations from the University of Florence in Italy and Manchester (U.K.). He was Research Fellow and grant holder of the Norwegian Research Council at the University of Oslo where he was responsible for a Research Project on the options and challenges of the use of private military companies by state/non-state actors. He holds a postgraduate specialization in Human Rights and Development. He has worked for several years in Communications and Policy Analysis and spent last year as a Junior Professional Officer in the Partnership and Communications Group at United Nations Volunteers Headquarter in Germany.
Gabor de Zagon	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Gabor de Zagon joined the joint Task Force in March 2009. He now works as Junior Parliamentary Development Officer in the Global Programme for Parliamentary Strengthening. He works on the Parliamentary Development Knowledge Portal and also on global standards for democratic parliaments. Before joining the JTF, Gabor worked in the European Commission in the field of EU customs cooperation with third countries and in the private sector as a policy analyst. He holds a master's degree from the College of Europe and published several analyses on Brazil and other Latin American countries.
Dalene Goosen	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Dalene Goosen is a South Africa national and joined the Joint Task Force as E-Learning Expert in the production of E-learning material. She has extensive experience in creating and implementing learning solutions, specifically in a multi-media environment. Her skill set includes content and curriculum design; instructional design; and implementation of these designs into interactive online, as well as print, media as a multi-media developer. She has developed courses both as stand-alone components, as well as, part of degree curriculums. Her responsibilities in building learning solutions encompassed the intelligent conversion of offline material into interactive online content; including restructuring the logical flow of the content and creating an ideal online environment for learners. She has also been responsible for heading teams, planning projects, and meeting with clients to assess needs and gauge response to completed projects.
Adelaida Contreras	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Adelaida Contreras is working as graphic designer consultant at the Joint Task Force. She has been contributing to the design and production of the materials for the different sessions of the Joint EC-UNDP-IDEA Joint Training Effective Electoral Assistance and therefore with the graphical layout of manuals, handbooks and reports as a part of the Joint Task Force’s activities related to the dissemination of knowledge to a wider audience. She has extensive previous experience in the private sector in Venezuela where she was in charge of the corporate image and responsible for the artistic management of several exhibitions in different European and American countries for one of the most prestigious cultural foundations at national level.

Operations Quality Support Directorate - Governance Democracy Human Rigths and Gender Unit

Training and Knowledge Management Unit

Name	Email
Thomas Huyghebaert	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Thomas recently returned to the European Commission (March 1, 2010) to work in EuropeAid's Governance, Security, Human Rights and Gender unit as the advisor for democracy support covering electoral assistance, parliamentary, political parties and media support. He came from the European Parliament (EP) where he worked for two years helping to put in place the EP's new Office for the Promotion of Parliamentary Democracy, which was created to assist new and emerging democratic parliaments around the globe and to support the EP in EU Democracy support policy making and oversight. Thomas has almost 15 years of experience in working with different international organizations on different continents in the field of development and democratic governance in particular. He steered UNDP's Global Program for Parliamentary Strengthening from 2005 to 2008. Prior to this Thomas worked at the European Commission's Directorate General for External Relations, in its UN unit where he prepared and defended a communication on EU-UN Relations. He also spent three years at the EC Delegation in Kazakhstan managing the institutional and education reform portfolio. In earlier incarnations he worked for UNDP in New York and the OSCE in Bosnia on electoral and parliamentary development matters. He started his career as a lecturer and project manager of the first Master in European Studies in Russia at the State University of St.-Petersburg. He holds a Master in Political Science from Catholic University of Leuven, a Master in European Politics and Administration from the College of Europe (Bruges) and an Executive Master in Business Administration of HEC, Paris.
Polara Theresa	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Teresa Polara was recently recruited at E4, the quality support Unit at EuropeAid Cooperation Office, to be the electoral assistance desk. Previously, from March 2005 to March 2010, she was working at the EC Delegation in DRC as a Programme Manager in charge of political and administrative governance. In that position, Teresa Polara managed the EC financial and technical support to the 2005-2006 elections and followed up on the juridical, political, technical and logistical aspects of the electoral process. Previously in DRC, November 2004 to March 2005, Teresa Polara worked at the Electoral Section of MONUC, the UN peacekeeping mission in DRC, on electoral administration and EMB capacity building. From 2001 to 2004 she was a consultant for Cide (National Information and Documentation Centre on Europe) where she was tasked with research, juridical appraisals, EU legislation and case-law monitoring. In 2000-2001 she served at the Italian Ministry for EU Policies where, as a Member of the Minister’s Cabinet, she followed the EU Internal Market and Environment Council meetings and contributed to the national coordination in the ascending phase of EU legislative process. In 1999-2000 she was a member of the Vice-Minister’s cabinet at the Ministry for Public Works and Infrastructures. In 1998-1999 she worked as a consultant at the Commission for Foreign Affairs of Senate, Italian Parliament. In 1998 she was a trainee at ECHO, the European Commission Humanitarian Office, where she worked on humanitarian projects and follow up on the Great Lakes area. She participated as an Electoral Observer to the EU EOM in Indonesia in 2004 and to the ODHIR mission in Albania in 2000, after starting as an electoral supervisor in several OSCE missions in BiH in 1996 and 1997. Teresa Polara holds a postgraduate diploma in European Studies and a university Degree in Political Science with a specialisation in International Politics. She participated in some election-related trainings, including the EC/UNDP joint training on effective electoral assistance organised in Dar Es Salaam in 2006 and the NEEDS Election/Legal Analyst, Capacity Building for Election Observation, held in Abo (Finland) in 2007.
Mário Rui Queiró	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Mário Rui Queiró has joined the European Commission 10 years ago and has previously worked with the European Parliament, always in Brussels, in different positions dealing mainly with institutional relations and, since 2001,when he joined EuropeAid (the cooperation office of the EC), in the area of development and cooperation. He was initially project manager for Lebanon and Yemen and later in charge of the EC Thematic Network on Good Governance, where he was responsible for development of the "EC Handbook on promoting Good Governance". He is currently working as Quality Support Officer in the unit "Governance, Security, Human Rights and Gender" where he covers mainly democratisation issues. His tasks include the quality support to programmes and projects in the area of democratic governance - participating in the identification and formulation of projects, following the EC activities in this area and providing feed-back to EC Delegations on the analysis and lessons learnt. Another considerable part of his work regards the development and dissemination of methodological tools in the domains of democracy promotion and the design and implementation of training programmes for these tools. He contributed to the "EC Methodological Guide on Electoral Assistance" and has been actively involved in the EC-UNDP relations in this area, with the signature of the Operational Guidelines between the two institutions, the creation of the EC-UNDP Task Force and the development of the Joint Training on Effective Electoral Assistance. In 2010, Mario took up a new position as Politica Advisor at the EC Delegation in Brazil and will continue to collaborate with the JTF on the PALOP-TL project.
Francesco Torcoli	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Francesco Torcoli since February 2010 works in the Governance Section of the EU Delegation to Ghana where he is responsible for Electoral Support programs to the Ghana Electoral Commission. From 2007 until January 2010 he has worked as Electoral Assistance Specialist/Quality Management Officer at the Europe Aid Cooperation Office of the European Commission, within the Governance, Security, Human Rights and Gender Unit. Francesco has more then fifteen years of experience in the fields of electoral assistance, election observation and human rights gained in more then 30 countries in Africa, Latin America, the Balkans, Eastern Europe Middle East, Pacific and Caribbean. Francesco worked with different International Organizations EC, UNDP and OSCE/ODIHR in different capacities such as: Chief Technical Advisor for UNDP in Mali in 2006 for the preparation of the Presidential and Legislative elections, Deputy Project Director in West Bank and Gaza in 2003 for an EC funded project to support the Palestinian Election Commission and Senior Human Rights Officer within the Kosovo Verification Mission in 1999. Francesco holds a Ph.D in International Relations and a Master degree in Political Science from the University of Pisa (Italy) where he has also been teaching History of International Relations for more then four years. Francesco has authored and co-authored a wide range of articles and books on International Relations.

United Nations Development Programme - Bureau Development Policy - New York & Mexico City

Name	Email
Linda Maguire	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Ms. Maguire is the Electoral Advisor in UNDP’s Democratic Governance Group, Bureau for Development Policy, at headquarters but is currently based in Mexico City. She provides policy and project advice on elections to UNDP country offices and their national partners, undertakes a research agenda, and maintains partnerships between UNDP and organizations within and beyond the UN. Ms. Maguire is the current project coordinator for the ACE Electoral Knowledge Network—a joint venture on the cost and administration of elections between UNDP, International IDEA, IFES: Democracy at Large, Elections Canada, the Instituto Federal Electoral (Mexico), EISA (Southern Africa), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs, the UN Electoral Assistance Division and the European Commission. She has coordinated the production and was the co-drafter of several UNDP publications in electoral assistance, the most recent of which were the UNDP Electoral Assistance Implementation Guide and the ACE Focus on Effective Electoral Assistance. Before joining UNDP, she served as a Senior Program Officer for West Africa with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), where she managed the electoral assistance programs in Côte d'Ivoire and Mali, as well as provided support to legislatures, political parties and civil-society initiatives in the region
Aleida Ferreyra	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Aleida Ferreyra is a Research Analyst at the Democratic Governance Group in UNDP’s Bureau for Development Policy in New York. She has been involved with the research, writing and production of several knowledge products in the area of electoral assistance and governance, including the Electoral Assistance Implementation Guide, Making Democracy Deliver: Innovative Governance for Human Development and Governance for the Future: Democracy and Development in the Least Developed Countries. She has also produced the Electoral Systems and Process Module for UNDP’s Virtual Development Academy. From 1996 to 2002, she worked as regional coordinator and international electoral observer for several electoral missions with the OAS, including Ecuador, Guyana, Honduras, Peru and Suriname. Prior to her work at UNDP, Aleida taught Comparative Political Systems and Institutions at the New School for Social Research in New York and worked as programme coordinator of the Janey Program for Latin American Studies. She holds a MA and MPhil in Political Science and Government from the New School for Social Research in New York.

United Nations Development Programme - Conpenaghen

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Anne Sofie Holm	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Anne-Sofie Holm is working with UNDP Copenhagen as a Procurement Advisor on elections where she is assisting UNDP Country Offices particularly in the pre-election period of planning, sourcing, budgeting and implementation of electoral procurement needs and timelines. Ms. Holm is part of the Special Advisory Team for Elections.Prior to UNDP Ms. Holm worked the past 7 years in the UN system in the field of government support and post conflict governance. Key focus areas has been post conflict electoral management, institution-building and capacity building. In recent years she has provided electoral technical assistance to the elections in Iraq, Afghanistan, The Palestinian Territories, and Nepal and has furthermore undertaken several electoral and procurement advisory missions in Africa, the Middle East, South-East and Central Asia and the Balkans. Anne-Sofie Holm holds a M.A. in ‘Governance and Development’, specialized in ‘Institutional Design and Conflict Management’.