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Andrew Ellis

Andrew Ellis is a senior consultant on the design and implementation of electoral
systems and processes and of constitutional frameworks, the facilitation of political
dialogue and other aspects of support for democratic transition and democracy
building, resident in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK.

Andrew was until early 2014 the Director for Asia and the Pacific for International
IDEA, a global intergovernmental organisation whose mission is to support locally
owned and sustainable democratic change worldwide. In this role he was responsible
for all aspects of the design, funding and implementation of IDEA’s regional
programme in Asia and the Pacific, including projects and activities in Nepal,
Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Bhutan, and Mongolia; for
diplomatic and representational aspects of IDEA’s work in the region; and for
establishment of the IDEA regional office in Canberra, Australia. He previously served
as IDEA’s Director of Operations and as Head of the Electoral Processes Programme.
He is the coauthor of many IDEA knowledge resources, including ‘Electoral System
Design: The New International IDEA Handbook’, the ‘Electoral Management Design
Handbook’, the ‘Voting Abroad Handbook’, the ‘Direct Democracy Handbook’, the
‘Electoral Justice Handbook’ and of papers on constitutions and institutional framework
design questions, and was for several years the IDEA representative on the Steering
Board of the ACE Electoral Knowledge Network.

Andrew has wide experience as a technical adviser on electoral and institutional
matters in democratic transitions. He acted as Senior Adviser for the National
Democratic Institute (NDI) in Indonesia from 1999 to 2003, working with members
of the Indonesian legislature dealing with constitutional amendment and reform of
electoral and political laws, on gender representation issues, and on the practicalities
of decentralisation. Other major assignments have included acting as Chief Technical
Adviser to the Palestinian Election Commission for the first Palestinian elections in
1996, heading the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
observation of electoral registration in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997, and designing
the European Commission’s electoral assistance programme in Cambodia for the 1998
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