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.

Since 1994, he worked for two decades as an independent journalist. Since 2001, Alessandro has participated as Long-Term Observer in around twenty electoral observation missions with the European Union and the OSCE/ODIHR, especially in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia.

He was media and social media analyst in the EU Expert Mission to El Salvador 2021 and he was a press officer for the EU EOMs in Honduras 2013 and 2021, Tunisia 2014, El Salvador 2018 and 2019, Peru 2020, Lebanon 2022 and most recently in Paraguay 2023.

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.

This includes 25 ODIHR election observation missions as Deputy Head of Mission, Team Leader, Election Analyst and Long-term Observers Co-ordinator, and Election Adviser in ODIHR Headquarters.

Additional experience includes civil affairs and democratic governance for UN and CSOs, as well as journalism. Since 2017, he has been co-ordinating the ODIHR project Support to Electoral Reforms in the Western Balkans.

He has researched both country and macro-level trends and practices and assisted legislators, oversight institutions, civil society, media outlets, and political parties.

He is the lead author of the Building Resources in Democracy, Governance, and Elections (BRIDGE) curriculum module on political finance. Öhman also wrote the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) Vote for Free: a Global Guide for Citizen Monitoring of Campaign Finance, and he steered the development of Oversight, Toolkit for Political Finance Institutions.

In addition to his experience with the Center, Schierman has monitored elections in Ukraine with CANADEM and has completed a fellowship in international development in Ghana. He also has professional experience in political campaigning, communications, sustainability, and environmental education.

In his free time, Schierman is a freelance political writer and pens a biweekly column for a Canadian online news site. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in public policy from the University of Calgary.