He has provided strategic advice and direct technical assistance to National Stakeholders in transitional and sensitive political environments on behalf of EU, OSCE and IFES. 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).

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.

She joined more than 20 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 has a sound knowledge of the online ecosystem, with a focus on the role of social media in the democratic discourse. For the past 5 years, she has focused intensively in analysing the role of social media in electoral processes and researching how to monitor their impact on political campaigns in the context of international observation of elections.

Registered publicist in the Italian Journalists’ professional Order since 2010, Alice has worked as an advisor and trainer with academic and private institutions specialized in mass media communications and analysis of international democratization processes worldwide.

She has over 17 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 providing advisory services to the Election Commission of Pakistan as well as the parliament.

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 organizations working on these issues.

Johnson has worked with the Carter Center since 2007, and has managed its programming in Tunisia, Palestine, Sudan, Côte d’Ivoire, and Zimbabwe, among others. Prior to joining the Center, she worked as a Country Director for the International Republican Institute in Morocco and Palestine, and conducted survey research in the US, Middle East and Europe in the private sector.

Johnson holds a Master of Science degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a master's degree in European sciences from the Humboldt and Frei Universities in Berlin, Germany. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

She has worked for the EU since 2004, first for the European Commission and then for the European External Action Service (EEAS). She was posted in few EU Delegations and in Bruxelles. She is currently an election policy officer in the EEAS Division Democracy and Electoral Observation.

Vladimir worked as a lecturer of political science and as a researcher in a several think-tanks in the Balkan region. He has over 15 years’ experience in the field of democratization, research and management, and elections.

Vladimir has been part of more than 25 ODIHR missions in different countries in different capacities.

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.

In February 2021 she joined the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the CFSP – CSDP Unit of the Directorate General for the Political Affairs and Security, at its headquarters in Rome. From January to March 2022, she was temporarily assigned as Deputy Administrative and Accounting Commissioner at the Italian Embassy in Abu Dhabi.

Currently, she is responsible for the pre-selection of Italian candidates to the EU Electoral Observation Missions as Italian Focal Point and she manages the administrative procedures for secondment of Italian experts to CSDP civilian missions.

He has provided strategic advice and direct technical assistance to National Stakeholders in transitional and sensitive political environments on behalf of EU, OSCE and IFES. 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).

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.

She joined more than 20 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 has a sound knowledge of the online ecosystem, with a focus on the role of social media in the democratic discourse. For the past 5 years, she has focused intensively in analysing the role of social media in electoral processes and researching how to monitor their impact on political campaigns in the context of international observation of elections.

Registered publicist in the Italian Journalists’ professional Order since 2010, Alice has worked as an advisor and trainer with academic and private institutions specialized in mass media communications and analysis of international democratization processes worldwide.

She has over 17 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 providing advisory services to the Election Commission of Pakistan as well as the parliament.

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 organizations working on these issues.

She has worked for the EU since 2004, first for the European Commission and then for the European External Action Service (EEAS). She was posted in few EU Delegations and in Bruxelles. She is currently an election policy officer in the EEAS Division Democracy and Electoral Observation.

Vladimir worked as a lecturer of political science and as a researcher in a several think-tanks in the Balkan region. He has over 15 years’ experience in the field of democratization, research and management, and elections.

Vladimir has been part of more than 25 ODIHR missions in different countries in different capacities.

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.

In February 2021 she joined the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the CFSP – CSDP Unit of the Directorate General for the Political Affairs and Security, at its headquarters in Rome. From January to March 2022, she was temporarily assigned as Deputy Administrative and Accounting Commissioner at the Italian Embassy in Abu Dhabi.

Currently, she is responsible for the pre-selection of Italian candidates to the EU Electoral Observation Missions as Italian Focal Point and she manages the administrative procedures for secondment of Italian experts to CSDP civilian missions.