Gregory Kehailia has over a decade of extensive experience as a program manager and political analyst in the arena of international human development and governance, civil society support, human rights & democratization, elections, reconciliation & community dialogue, youth & gender action and minority protection.

Prior to IFES, Kehailia was the manager of the United Nations’ Electoral Education Campaign in Iraq, a large scale civic and voter education program implemented by UNOPS' Iraq Operations Center across all governorates of Iraq to prepare the 2009 provincial elections. Before that, over the course of three years, he was successively involved as Admin and Finance Director, Head of a program unit and Grant Operations Coordinator in the creation of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation. The foundation is an Egypt-based intergovernmental institution focusing on coexistence between communities and conflict resolution in the 37 countries of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa, Near-East).

Kehailia also served four years as diplomat, democratization expert and adviser with the European Commission in Syria, Belgium and Algeria - and for shorter assessment and identification missions in various other countries. He started his international career as project developer and manager for decentralized cooperation networks of NGOs and territorial authorities of Europe, Middle East, North and West Africa.

Kehailia holds a master’s in political science from the French Political Studies Institute “Science Po Bordeaux.” He has studied literature, philosophy and political sciences in France and Spain and he wrote his 1997 master thesis on political Islam in Tunisia. A native speaker of French, Kehailia is fluent in English and has working knowledge of Spanish and basic knowledge of Arabic.

• Almami Cyllah, Africa Regional Director, to Testify on Capitol Hill
• December 14, 2009
• Kosovo Electoral Assessment Mission
• IFES, December 1998
• Burundi: Rapport d Evaluation Pre-Electorale, avril 1992
• IFES, April 1992
• Burundi: A Pre-Election Assessment Report, April 1992
• IFES, April 1992
• IFES Hosts UNDEF Roundtable
• April 29, 2006
• Kyrgyzstan Votes to Adopt A New Constitution
• June 28, 2010
• IFES Program Manager for the Caucasus & Central Asia Comments on Kazakhstan's Chairmanship of the OSCE
• January 14, 2010
• IFES Program Manager Comments on Democracy in Kyrgyzstan
• March 30, 2010