She joined 25 election observation missions as a core team member with the European Union and the OSCE/ODIHR, as well as EU and UNDP-funded technical assistance projects. She supported UNESCO in the implementation of the ‘Social Media 4 Peace’ project. She has a sound knowledge of the online ecosystem, with a focus on the role of social media in the democratic discourse. For the past 7 years, she has focused intensively in analyzing the role of digital comms in electoral processes and researching how to monitor the impact of social media on political campaigns in the context of international observation of elections.

With a degree in Foreign Languages and Intercultural Mediation, Alice is currently attending a master's degree course in communication and political marketing at the International University of La Rioja. Registered in the Professional Order of Italian Journalists since 2010, she has collaborated with several international academic and private institutions specialized in mass media communications and analysis of international democratization processes worldwide.

She has over 20 years experience of working in democracy and gender mainly in a post-conflict setting. She has participated in over 25 election observation missions both as an observer as well as a core team member for the EU, OSCE, the Carter Center and a Dutch NGO.

She has also provided technical assistance to the Electoral Commissions of Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and South Sudan, the Human Rights Commission in South Sudan and worked as a Gender and Legal Advisor to the National Parliament of Timor-Leste and is currently undertaking a meta evaluation of the United Nations Trust Fund on Violence against women.

Since 2013 she has worked as freelance consultant, conducting trainings on election observation, female political participation and carries out evaluations of democratic governance projects and projects on gender on behalf of the UN, EU and other key international organisations working on these issues.

From 2000 he has designed, planned and executed elections observation missions worldwide and contributed to elections operations in the Balkans, West Africa, Middle East and North Arica, Central and South America, Southern Asia, providing managerial support, political analyses and punctual recommendations on reforming to national stakeholders.

He was Head of the OSCE Antifraud Unit during the 2004 General Assembly election. He worked for the foundation (IFES) in South Sudan as referendum adviser (2011) and in Tunis as elections operations adviser to the Libyan EMB (2014-2016) and in Ecuador as Country Director for a TA program focused on cybersecurity.

Most recently, on behalf of EU, he was providing direct Technical Assistance to Electoral Management Bodies, National Civil Registries, Constitutional Assemblies and Civil Society organizations in Tunisia, Libya, Cambodia and Honduras contributing to fostering stakeholders dialogue and promoting institutional reforms based on sustainability and rights.

From 2012 he is the scientific coordinator of training course on International Election Observation at the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice.

He has developed and delivered voter registration, election results and poll-worker management systems. He has helped elections management bodies and their international partners to specify, develop, procure, deploy, secure and support a variety of technologies, including biometrics, in support of electoral processes, particularly voter registration and results management systems.

He was lead author of a joint EU/UNDP publication on results management systems. He co-authored "Pakistan's Internet Voting Experiment", which was Best Paper – Practitioner Track at the 2019 eVoteID conference, Bregenz, Austria. In 2022, he was a member of a team conducting research for the European Union on the cost of elections procurement. He is lead author on a soon-to-be-published USAID guide on cybersecurity and election results managements systems. Until February 2022, he lived in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Armin has been working on democratisation and strengthening human rights with a focus on electoral assistance, political assessment, human rights and conflict mitigation. Armin held various fixed-term assignments as IFES Country Director, OSCE/ODIHR Senior Election Adviser and UNDP Governance Analyst. He worked as democracy support & election expert in more than 30 countries (African, American, Arab, Asian, and Pacific) for various international organisations, most recently as Deputy Chief Observer of the EU EOM to Lesotho. Armin has co-authored several election related publications, most recently the UNESCO handbook for electoral practitioners on elections in digital times.

Armin holds a PhD in international relations and an LL.M. in international Human Rights Law. He has lectured on electoral assistance in Europe and abroad, within the Masters Program in Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck/Austria, at Universities in Baghdad and Erbil/Iraq, as well as at the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice/Italy.