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 currently works as international consultant on media and elections for the European Union, the OSCE and the Carter Center. She has worked as core team expert on media and social media analysis, as well as on communication and public outreach activities in more than 25 electoral processes, mainly in Africa and Latin America. In recent months, she has been member of the Election Expert Mission deployed by the European Union to monitor Ecuador’s general elections.

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 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. 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.

He holds an MA degree in Public Administration and Public Policy from the University of Exeter in the UK, a BA degree in Political Science from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management from Helsinki Espana & The Human Rights Institute of Complutense University in Spain, as well as several professional certificates in electoral management, mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution.

He is currently pursuing a Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Peace Mediation at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. His interest areas are supporting the integrity of electoral processes, strengthening of election management bodies and political parties, preventive diplomacy, and conflict resolution.

His favourite part of the agenda is democracy support including election related issues. Jan is the Focal Point for election observation, he participated as an election observer election observation missions especially in Africa.

He prepared several resolutions on Equal Political Participation adopted by the UN Human Rights Council. At the same time Jan is the Chairman of the Employee Organization at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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 for a UNDP funded project on peace and conflict monitoring in Iraq. Armin is currently co-drafting a UNESCO/UNDP guide for electoral practitioners on elections & internet, social media, and AI.

Armin holds a PhD in international relations and an LL.M. in international Human Rights Law. He lectures 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.