Fatimakhon Ahmedova is a lecturer at Khujand State University in Tajikistan and a leading specialist at the Center for Democratic Transformations, a nongovernmental organization working to prevent conflict and curb human rights violations in Central Asia. She was a Reagan-Fascell fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy during the summer of 2005.

Muhamad Ali is a lecturer at the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and is a fellow at the East-West Center.

Fr. Ranhilio Callangan Aquino is the assistant chancellor for Academic Affairs at the Philippine Judicial Academy, which is part of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He is also the dean of the Graduate School of Law of San Beda College in Mendiola in the Philippines.

Greg Barton is an associate professor in politics at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, and is author of Abdurrahman Wahid: Muslim democrat, Indonesian president (UNSW Press, 2002); and Indonesia’s Struggle: Jemaah Islamiyah and the Soul of Islam (UNSW Press, 2004).

Tihana Bartulac-Blanc is IFES’ deputy chief of party in Iraq.

Tim Bittiger is a consultant for election assistance and organizational development. He has recently worked with ECOWAS to improve their conduct of election observation.

Jarrett Blanc is a post-conflict transition and governance specialist. He is IFES’ chief of party in the West Bank and Gaza.

Igor Botan is the executive director of the Association for Participatory Democracy “ADEPT” in Moldova.

Jeff Brady is a senior program specialist with the F. Clifton White Applied Research Center at IFES.

Michael Bratton is Professor of Political Science and African Studies at Michigan State University. His latest book, with Robert Mattes and E. Gyimah-Boadi, is Public Opinion, Democracy, and Market Reform in Africa (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Karen Buerkle is a Senior Researcher in IFES’ Applied Research Center for Democracy and Elections.

Thomas Carothers directs the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.

Elizabeth Côté is IFES’ Country Director in Guinea.

Kevin Deegan-Krause is assistant professor of political science at Wayne State University. His book, Elected Affinities: Democracy and Party Competition in Slovakia and the Czech Republic (Stanford University Press, 2006), analyzes why Slovaks supported Vladimír Meciar.

Nadia Diuk is Director for Europe and Eurasia at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C.

John Entelis is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Fordham University.

Jeff Fischer is the Director of the Center for Transitional and Post-Conflict Governance at IFES.

Ian Gary is a Strategic Issues Advisor for Extractive Industries with Catholic Relief Services.

Carl Gershman is President of the National Endowment for Democracy.

Ben Goldsmith is an international election expert who has been engaged in elections in the UK, Bosnia, Kosovo, Georgia, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is currently the Deputy Chief Electoral Officer of Afghanistan.

John A. Gould is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colorado College.

Gregory E. Hamot is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Iowa.

Steven Hansch is a Senior Associate at Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of International Migration.

Wassim Harb is the President of the Arab Center for the Rule of Law and Integrity in Beirut, Lebanon.

Ross Howard is president of the journalism development consortium Media & Democracy Group, author of International Media Assistance: A Review of Donor Activities and Lessons Learned, and teaches journalism at Langara College, Vancouver.

Laura Ingalls is a contributing editor for democracy at large.

Colin Irwin is a research fellow in the Institute of Governance at Queen’s University in Belfast. He was the principal investigator on the project “Peace Building and Public Policy in Northern Ireland,” funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. He has extended his work to include the Balkans and Middle East.

Gareth Jenkins is a Senior Consulting Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies – U.S. He is currently writing a book on political Islam in Turkey that will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in summer/fall 2005.

Edward P. Joseph is a visiting fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C.

Lisa Kammerud is the research coordinator at the F. Clifton White Applied Research Center at IFES.

Heinz Klug is a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. From 1989 to 1994, he served on the secretariat and was a staff member of the African National Congress Land Commission.

Thérèse Pearce Laanela is the ACE project coordinator with International IDEA in Stockholm.

Sarvat Maharramov is an Edmund S. Muskie Fellow in the MPA program at Indiana University (Bloomington).

Miklos Marschall is Executive Director of Transparency International (TI) for Europe and Central Asia.

Terrence C. Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Indiana University’s School of Education in Bloomington.

Vasu Mohan is a member of IFES’ team in India, which is implementing a Dignity of the Girl-Child program that addresses female feticide and adverse sex ratio.

David Mikosz is IFES’ Country Director in Kyrgyzstan.

Homeyra Mokhtarzada is an IFES Program Officer.

John Moore is IFES’ Ever Head of Field Officer (Central Region) & Operations Security Manager.

Gerardo Munck, Argentinian by birth, teachers in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He worked on Democracy in Latin America (2004), a report of the United Nations Development Programme, and is active in various initiatives to promote and monitor democracy.

Rabéa Naciri is a Professor of Geography at the University of Rabat and the founder and Vice President of the Moroccan women’s NGO Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc.

Carlos Navarro is the director of electoral studies of the International Affairs Unit (Director de Estudios Electorales de la Coordinación de Asuntos Internacionales) of the Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute (IFE).

Boaz Paldi is a broadcast specialist with UNDP.

Andrés Pastrana served as Colombia’s 37th president between 1998 and 2002. He is currently Colombia’s ambassador to the United States.

Paul W. Posner is an assistant professor of government at Clark University in Worchester, Massachusetts.

Don Pressley is a Principal with Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, Virginia.

Hippolyt A. S. Pul is Deputy Regional Director for Program Quality for West and Central Africa Regions for Catholic Relief Services.

Michael Radu is senior fellow and co-chairman of the Center on Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Homeland Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia.

Roland Rich was the inaugural director of the Centre for Democratic Institutions at the Australian National University, a position he accepted after a wide-ranging career in the Australian diplomatic service. In 2005, he was a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. His forthcoming book, pacific Asia in quest of democracy, will be published in 2006 by Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Yulia Savchenko is a television anchor and journalist who hosts a talk show in Kyrgyzstan. She is also a 2004-2005 Reagan-Fascell fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C.

Rakesh Sharma is the research manager for IFES’ F. Clifton White Applied Research Center for Democracy and Elections.

Fidaa Shehada is a former National Endowment for Democracy Reagan-Fascell fellow and a former officer in crisis management at the Palestinian Center for the Dissemination of Democracy and Community Development (Panorama).

Vitali Silitski was an associate professor of economics at the European Humanities University in Minsk, Belarus, a position he was forced to leave for publicly criticizing the government. He was a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy between October 2004 and July 2005.

Meeta Singh is a member of IFES’ team in India, which is implementing a Dignity of the Girl-Child program that addresses female feticide and adverse sex ratio. For further information, see www.ifes.org/india.html.

Angela Sirbu is the executive director of the Independent Journalism Center in Moldova.

Richard Soudriette is the president of IFES.

Antonio Spinelli is a senior program officer at the Electoral Processes Program of International IDEA in Sweden and a member of the ACE Electoral Knowledge Network project team. (“Elections Today”)

John Todd Stewart served as U.S. Ambassador to Moldova between 1995 and 1998 and served as an election observer during the recent elections. He is now retired from the Foreign Service and does not, as a result, speak on behalf of the U.S. Government. (“Elections Today”)

Rotimi T. Suberu is a professor of political science at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.

Vladimir Tismaneanu is professor of politics at the University of Maryland–College Park and author of numerous books, including Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (University of California Press, 2003).

James Vermillion is the executive vice president of IFES.

Marcin Walecki is the Senior Advisor for Political Finance at IFES.

Tom Wood is IFES’ Program Officer for Kyrgyzstan.