Peter Hazdra studied Law and Social Anthropology. He is a researcher, lecturer and consultant on topics related to international crisis and conflict management, human rights, rule of law and selected conflicts, especially in the South East Asian region. Peter has spent over 11 years in the field of election observation, working as Military Observer, Security Officer, Human Rights Monitor, and Humanitarian Coordinator. He has been long term observer in five election observation missions and has participated in every election observation in Cambodia since 1993.

Marian has a background in political science and history. Since 1998 he has held a number positions in the field of elections and was previously the executive director of the Slovak association of election observers. Marian has also observed numerous elections for the OSCE/ODIHR including those held in Belarus, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Albania. He has also worked as an Election Desk Officer for the Human Rights and Democratisation unit of the European Commission in its External Relations department covering Sri Lanka, Fiji, Yemen and Zambia and a political advisor to the Prime Minister of Slovakia.

Line has two master’s degrees in political science, specialising in international relations with particular emphasis on political transitions, democratisation, conflict mitigation and human security. She has worked in South East Asia, South Asia, Sudan and Europe on conflict mitigation, human rights and the delivery of foreign aid in situations of fragility. From 2002-04, Line was employed by DANIDA in Cambodia and also worked as a policy analyst at the Mekong River Commission Secretariat. She has been a short-term observer for the OSCE and was earlier in 2008 the Political and Country Expert for the EU EOM to Nepal.

Patrice is an operations and logistics expert and has worked in the area for 10 years for the United Nations, the OSCE, the EU, as well as a number of NGOs. Patrice worked in the Balkans from 1999 to 2005 and in the Great Lakes region of East Africa between 1994 and 1997. He has worked as an operations expert and in a support capacity on a number of Election Observation Missions, most recently as senior operations expert for the European Union Election Observation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Franck has master’s degrees in International Law and Management. In 1995 and 1998 he stood as a candidate for the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) in French local elections. He has worked as an expert in election observation and technical assistance with the UN, EU, IFES and the Council of Europe for the last eight years. He was observer coordinator for the EU EOMs to Nepal (2008), Mauritania (2007) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (2006) and deputy observer coordinator in Nigeria (2003). Franck has also worked for the UN Electoral Assistance Division in East Timor (2001-02), Nepal (2002), Afghanistan (2003-04) and for the out of country voting for the Iraq elections (2005).

Dimitra has a degree in law and a postgraduate degree in human rights and international law. She has wide experience of working in the field of election observation and technical assistance, having taken part in more than twenty missions with the OSCE in the Balkans and Eastern Europe and with the EU in Africa and Asia. Most recently, she worked as a long-term observer for the EU EOMs to Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Nepal and as Deputy Observer Coordinator in Kenya.