Beside the design, management, and evaluation of a variety of international technical assistance projects in the field of electoral support and democratisation, Eric has contributed to numerous election observation and assessment missions with the EU as Deputy Chief Observer, Team Leader and Analyst. Senior advisor to the Cambodian electoral commission in 2008-2009 and 2016-2017, he promoted critical reforms pertaining to the voter registration and electoral dispute resolution processes.

In Tunisia and Madagascar, he led EU-funded support to the civil society ahead of transitional elections, developing comprehensive support and training programs for citizen observation, and the training of lawyers and magistrates on electoral dispute resolution. Since 2020, he is heading the EU Technical Assistance to the electoral process in the Central African Republic.

From 2015 to 2020, she worked for the Directorate-General Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the European Commission (DG NEAR) as International cooperation Officer. In that capacity, she designed and managed complex programmes on migration governance and legal migration.

Previously, she had worked for international organisations, NGOs and private sector as programme manager and expert on programmes supporting governance, institution building, and electoral assistance in North Africa and Middle East. In particular, as Team Leader of the EU-funded Public Administration Facility Libya, she developed and supervised technical assistance for key Libyan Institutions, including the High National Election Commission, the Constitutional Drafting Assembly, the National Assembly and selected line Ministries.

Elisa actively advocates for women empowerment through photographic projects that she develops in cooperation with local associations and municipalities. She is completing a 5-year diploma in Photography at the École des arts d’Ixelles in Brussels.

She holds a M.Phil. in International Relations/Law from the Graduate Institute of Geneva/Switzerland, a Master in International Affairs and a Honors Degree in Political Science. Among her numerous electoral technical assistance/observation missions, can be mentioned the ones in Liberia, Afghanistan, Mali, Sudan, South Sudan, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo, Cambodia, and more. From 2015 to 2017 Maria Teresa has been working in the Central African Republic providing electoral assistance to the “Autorité National des Elections" (ANE) under the auspices of the European Union (EU)/ECES. From 2018 to 2020 she worked with the European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EUSDGN) and was appointed as Programme Coordinator of the EUSDGN (electoral) in Nigeria. In 2022 she worked as a Project Expert for IBF International Consulting Bruxelles-Belgium.

Ms. Mauro has been employed with relevant international organizations such as EU (European Union)/ECES, the United Nations (Department of Peace Keeping Operations), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Council of Europe-Venice Commission, the OSCE, IFES/USAID, Creative International/USAID, National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Graduate Institute of International Studies-Geneva/Switzerland.

She is fluent in English, French and Italian and has working knowledge of Spanish. Maria Teresa has been also a Human Rights Expert, and a Political Analyst. In 2004 she worked in Iraq with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Due to her deep knowledge of the Balkans, she was cooperating with the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia as an Expert Witness from 2006 to 2008. Maria Teresa has been analyzing electoral laws of several countries (i.e. Georgia, Armenia) on behalf of the Venice Commission. She has already taught at the Global Campus courses.

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.

Wally has authored methodological studies for the European Union (EU) Parliament and other EU institutions, and he has served as the lead author of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance handbook on International Obligations for Elections.

Wally’s professional experience includes drafting election provisions in constitutions; election and political party legislation and regulations; drafting and conducting comparative analysis of constitutional and legal frameworks for elections; and providing technical electoral assistance in project formulation, evaluation and execution.

Wally has been engaged by a wide range of democracy and governance organizations, including the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, the African Union, the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, Democracy Reporting International, The Carter Center, the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, the United Nations (UN) Development Programme, UN Women, the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, the Max Planck Foundation and the Venice Commission.

Wally is fluent in six languages and holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of London and a master’s degree and doctorate in social sciences from the University of Salzburg.