Annex C About the authors Adhy Aman is Programme Officer within International IDEA’s Electoral Processes Global Programme working primarily on electoral justice and participatory democracy issues. Simultaneously, he is also a staff member of the Asia Pacific Regional Programme responsible for regional and country-level initiatives on political and electoral reform issues. For the first reform era general elections in Indonesia (1999), Adhy served as First Secretary of the National Election Supervisory Committee, a body tasked with supervising the elections and resolving disputes. Through subsequent years, he worked on electoral dispute resolution reform in Asian countries. Adhy holds a master of laws degree from Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Ayman Ayoub is a Spanish lawyer of Syrian origin who specializes in programmes of development assistance, including electoral and legal reform. His work for over 17 years has primarily focused on the provision of professional assistance services for democratization processes in transitional and post-conflict countries in the Middle East, West Africa, Eastern Europe and South-East Asia. He has worked as a senior expert and in leading managerial capacities for the European Commission, the United Nations and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as other donors and international organizations. From 2005 to 2007 he worked as Senior Programme Officer at International IDEA (Stockholm) and continued to work as a senior consultant for IDEA thereafter. He coauthored Electoral Management Design: The International IDEA Handbook (2006) and produced its Arabic version as well as the Arabic version of Electoral System Design: The New International IDEA Handbook (2005). In addition, Mr Ayoub has written a number of election-related articles and reports, and translated a number of the ACE electoral Encyclopaedia topic areas into Arabic. He continues to work as a senior expert for development assistance projects globally. 213