Field Leadership
The International Foundation for Electoral Systems’ leadership in the field gathers professionals with firsthand experience administering elections in every region of the world. Our country directors have worked across the public and private sectors; have authored texts on political finance, election technology and election management; and have been a part of such historic moments as South Sudan’s independence and the Arab Spring.
Africa
- Rakeb Abate, Country Director, Ethiopia
- Paul Anderson, Country Director, Tanzania
- Stephen Snook, Country Director, Zimbabwe
Americas
- Sophie Lagueny, Country Director, Haiti
- Lesley Richards, Deputy Country Director, Haiti
- Alessandra Rossi, Country Director, Guatemala
Asia-Pacific
- Shabir Ahmed, Senior Elections Adviser, Pakistan
- Oliver Green, Senior Electoral Management Adviser, Papua New Guinea
- Paul Guerin, Country Director, Myanmar
- Beverly G. Hagerdon, Country Director, Sri Lanka
- Radhika Regmi Pokharel, Deputy Country Director, Nepal
- W. Paul Rowland, Resident Director, Papua New Guinea and Pacific Islands
- Admira Salim, Country Director, Indonesia
- Ian Smith, Country Director, Nepal
Europe and Eurasia
- Meredith Applegate, Program Adviser, Ukraine
- Yll Buleshkaj, Deputy Country Director, Kosovo
- Ioana Cosma, Country Director, North Macedonia
- Peter Erben, Senior Global Electoral Adviser and Chief of Party, Ukraine
- Harald Hartvig Jepsen, International Senior Adviser, Ukraine
- George (Gio) Kobakhidze, Deputy Country Director, Ukraine
- Denys Kovryzhenko, Senior Legal Adviser, Ukraine
- Renata Levovski, Country Director, Kyrgyzstan
- Jérôme Leyraud, Country Director, Armenia
- Keti Maisuradze, Country Director, Georgia
- Magnus Ohman, Director, Regional Europe Office and Senior Political Finance Adviser
Middle East and North Africa
- Omar Fouad Abdalla, Deputy Country Director, Egypt
- Niklas Kabel, Country Director, Libya
- Nicolas Kaczorowski, Country Director, Tunisia
- Vladimir Pran, Senior Technical Adviser, Syria
- Hermann Thiel, Country Director, Egypt
- Anna Wiktorowska, Country Director, Iraq
- Michael Yard, Senior Technical Adviser, Libya
