EIP International Advisory Board
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Dr. Sarah Birch
is a professor in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London, UK. She studies comparative politics and public ethics. She is a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Public Policy Research.
Dr. David J. Carrol
is Director of the Carter Center's Democracy Program, where he leads the Center’s global work on election observation and democratic election standards.
Dr. Alistair Clark
is a reader in Politics in the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University. His research interests focus on electoral integrity and administration, political parties, and electoral systems.
Professor Jørgen Elklit
is a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. Professor Elklit was for many years also a democratization and electoral systems and management advisor in a number of countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Dr. Richard W. Frank
is a lecturer in the College of Arts & Social Sciences at Australian National University.
Robert Gerenge
is the Principal Advisor to Election Management Bodies (EMBs) at the African Union Commission.
Professor Matt Golder
is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University. He studies comparative politics with a focus on different aspects of political representation.
Dr. Max Grömping
is a lecturer in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University, Australia.
Professor Susan D. Hyde
is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Roukaya Kasenally
is the Chairperson of the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) Board of Directors.
Professor Judith Kelley
is the Dean and a Terry Sanford Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.
Dr. Nicholas Kerr
is an associate professor at the University of Florida, in the Department of Political Science.
Professor Alexander Keyssar
is a Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University. He is an historian who has specialized in the study of American voting rights and electoral institutions.
Dr. Bridgett King
is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and MPA director at Auburn University, Alabama.
Professor Staffan I. Lindberg
is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. He is also the director of the V-Dem Institute as well as DEMSCORE.
Leontine Loeber
is a legislative lawyer for the Dutch Council of State.
Dr. Carla Luís
Dr. Luís is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. There, she coordinates VotedHR - Elections, Democracy and Human Rights - research, training and support, at the Centre for Social Studies.
Dr. Ferran Martinez i Coma
is a senior lecturer and Director of Engagement in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University, Australia.
Dr. Lauren Prather
is an associate professor of political science at University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on understanding international interventions in elections and their effects.
Dr. Alessandro Nai
is an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, in the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Dr. Michael Pal
is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. He researches comparative constitutional law and election law, and has advised governments, electoral management bodies, and redistricting commissions.
Therese Pearce Laanela
is the Head of Electoral Processes at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA).
Sy Quarashi
is the former Chief Election Commissioner of India.
Professor Andrew Reynolds
is a Senior Research Fellow at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs/Political Science.
Professor Gabriela Tarouco
is a professor of Political Science at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. Her research focuses on electoral governance in Latin America.
Professor Ingrid van Biezen
is a professor at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University, Netherlands.
Professor Carolien van Ham
is a professor in the Department of Empirical Political Science at Radboud University, Netherlands.
Chad Vickery,
vice president of global strategy and technical leadership at IFES, has extensive legal and international election administration experience with an emphasis on strengthening democracy and governance in transitioning societies.
Professor Masaaki Higashijima
is an associate professor of Political Science in the Graduate School of Information Sciences at Tohoku University, Japan. His primary research interests include comparative political economy, autocratic politics, and Central Asia.
Dr. J. Shola Omotola
is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Department of Political Science at Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), Ekiti State, Nigeria.
Dr. Miguel Angel Lara Otaola
is the (Former) Head of the office for Mexico and Central America Expertise and a Senior Democracy Assessment Specialist in the Democracy Assessment Unit at International IDEA.
Dr. Zach Elkins
is an associate professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mr. Jeff Fischer
teaches graduate-level courses in the Democracy and Governance Program at Georgetown University and has also established Electoral Policy Study Group in cooperation with USAID. Mr. Fischer has held three election directorships in internationally supervised elections where electoral security was one of his responsibilities.
Daniela Donno
is an associate professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma. She researches international influences on elections and democracy.