States as Commissioner at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2010–2013). He served as a judge at the highest electoral judicial authority in Mexico, the Central Chamber of the Federal Electoral Court (1990–96) and the Higher Chamber of the Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary (1996–2006). He has published widely on electoral law, human rights, constitutional law and comparative law. He holds a doctorate in law, with honours, from UNAM as well as a master’s in comparative law from the University of California at Los Angeles, United States. Deki Pema has been an Election Commissioner with the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) since 2006. During that time she has been involved in the establishment of the electoral system, including the drafting of the new electoral laws and the institutional set-up of the ECB. She has also been involved in education campaigns for the electorate and for election officials and in the registration processes for the elections held in 2008. Before her work with the ECB, Deki Pema worked as a Senior Planning Officer in the Policy and Planning Division of the Ministry of Agriculture. She has an MSc in Agricultural Economics from the University of London, UK. Joram Rukambe is the Regional Electoral Advisor for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Johannesburg. Prior to this he was a Programme Manager for International IDEA’s Africa and Middle East Programme (AMEP) and Director of Elections and Chief Executive of the Electoral Commission of Namibia. He also served as consultant and technical advisor to various EMBs in Southern Africa, including South Africa and Zambia between 1994 and 2001 and has observed elections in many Southern African countries. Mr Rukambe holds a master of arts degree in media and cultural studies from the University of Natal, South Africa. Maiko Shimizu has been involved in electoral observation activities in Pakistan, Cambodia, Indonesia and Taiwan as an election observer as well as an observation mission coordinator with the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) and the Japanese NGO InterBand. From November 2005 to December 2006 she worked in the Electoral Processes Team at International IDEA assisting the Electoral Justice Project and in voter turnout workshops. She was a researcher in the Political and Economic Affairs team at the Japanese Embassy in Timor-Leste from 2007 to 2010. She holds a master’s degree in international studies (peace and conflict resolution) from the University of Queensland, Australia, which she attended on a Rotary World Peace Fellowship. Denis Truesdell is an international electoral consultant. He worked as a legal advisor in Cambodia from 2001 to 2007, carrying out a wide-ranging United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) electoral assistance programme for the Cambodian National Electoral Committee. He has since served with 216