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Leena Rikkilä Tamang

Director for the Asia and the Pacific region at the International IDEA (Institute for Democracy
and Electoral Assistance).

Employment Record

Ms.Leena Rikkilä Tamang is Director for Asia and Pacific at the International
IDEA (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance). For 2007-2013

she was managing IDEA’s programme on Supporting Constitution Building
Process in Nepal. The objectives of this initiative were to support national

initiatives aiming at forging consensus on political reform and to develop
capacity of Nepalese stakeholders on constitutional options. Prior to

Nepal, Leena was working at the South-Asia Program, including Burma/
Myanmar at IDEA in Stockholm. Leena is former Secretary-General of

Finland’s Advisory Board for Relations with Developing Countries (Ministry
for Foreign Affairs). She is a member and former chair (2001-2002) of

Network Institute for Global Democracy (NIGD). Amongst her work with
NIGD, she co-ordinated the projects promoting North-South Dialogues

on democracy and globalization and been involved in the World Social
Forum (WSF) process. She is also a former Board Member of Asia –Europe

(ASEF) Foundation and has been teaching at the University of Tampere
in the Department of Political Science and International Relations from

where she graduated. Leena has worked in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and
Vietnam and on Burma/Myanmar and published about democracy at

the global level and on inclusive democratic processes.

Education Master of Political Sciences (international politics),
University of Tampere and Universite de Bordeaux.

Languages English / Finnish / French / Nepali / Swedish