Domenico Tuccinardi is Director of NEEDS, the training programme for EU observers conducted by a consortium led by International IDEA. He specializes in electoral legislation and management. In 1999–2000 he directed the OSCE external registration and voting services for Bosnia and Herzegovina. As OSCE Deputy Director of Elections in 2001–2002 he designed the digitalization of the voter register and organized the transfer of election administration functions to the new Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr Tuccinardi served as Election Administration Specialist in the Planning Team for the Iraq transitional elections of 2005 and led the European Union (EU) project in support of the same elections. More recently, he was Special Adviser to the EU on the Independence Referendum in Montenegro and managed the establishment of the Practitioners’ Network of the ACE Electoral Knowledge Network. Mr Tuccinardi served as Deputy Chief Observer for the EU election observation missions in Venezuela and Nicaragua and participated in several other electoral assistance and elections observation processes around the world. He is one of the authors of the EU Methodological Guide on Electoral Assistance and the EC-UNDP-IDEA Training Course on Effective Electoral Assistance, and has collaborated on other publications in the fields of electoral management, voter registration and technology. 217 Annex C. About the authors International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) in Haiti and the UNMIS Electoral Assistance Division in Sudan. Previously, Mr Truesdell worked in several peacekeeping missions such as UNTAC, UNPROFOR, UNCRO and UNMIBH until returning to Canada as a legal advisor to the Directeur Général des Élections du Québec and later as a consultant to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in its Peace-Building Unit. Mr. Truesdell is a member of the Quebec Bar and has an LL.M from the London School of Economics, UK.