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Roel von Meijenfeldt, The Netherlands
Netherlands Institute for Multiparty DemocracyRoel von Meijenfeldt is Executive Director of the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy. He is a political scientist by training, with majors in public administration and international relations. He obtained his degree at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1972 and lectured in public administration. He was President of the Dutch Committee for International Youth Affairs. In 1970 he organized and presided over the first parallel NGO conference within the history of the United Nations family at the occasion of FAO's Second World Food Conference.
He worked on international co-operation and globalizing markets within the trade union movement, in the management of a national educational institute. In 1984 he moved to Harare, Zimbabwe, as the Regional Representative for southern Africa for the Netherlands Organization for International Development Co-operation (NOVIB). He became the Secretary General of the Standing Committee of NGOs in Brussels in 1988, and managed an EU programme in support of the eradication of apartheid and the transition to democracy in South Africa and Namibia. Subsequently, he worked as an independent adviser on issues of democracy and development for the institutions of the European Union and wrote a report on 'Democracy's Development' for the EU.
In March 1996 he was appointed Programme Director of the newly established International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in Stockholm. In this position he designed and directed programmes aimed at the consolidation of democracy. Under this programme, national dialogues about democratic reform processes were managed in-countries around the world, including Indonesia, Nepal, Burma, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, the Arab region, the Balkans, Romania, Slovakia, Guatemala. The programme developed an innovative framework for democratic development to guide international assistance for advancing democracy and produced national assessments for the aforementioned countries. He became an adviser for the World Bank on the application of the Comprehensive Development Framework, specifically in conflict-affected countries.
| Africa (sub-Saharan) | Europe | |
Hannah Forster, African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, The Gambia Paul Graham, IDASA, South Africa Oumar Makalou, Center of Studies and Research for Democracy, Economics and Social Development, Mali Dieudonné Zognong, HUMANUS International, Cameroon
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Yuri Dzhibladze, Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights, Russia David French, Alexandria Trust, United Kingdom Matteo Mecacci, Nonviolent Radical Party, Italy Ilona Mihaies, Euroregional Center for Democracy, Romania Roel von Meijenfeldt, Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, Netherlands
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| The Americas | Middle East/North Africa | |
Morton Halperin, Open Society Institute, United States Carlos Ponce, Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy, Venezuela Andrea Sanhueza, Corporación PARTICIPA, Chile
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Hoda Chalak, Organization for Civil Action, Lebanon Sameer Jarrah, Arab World Centre for Democratic Development, Jordan Mohsen Marzouk, Arab Democracy Foundation, Qatar/Tunisia Reza Eslami-Somea, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
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| Asia | Ex-Officio Members | |
Chee Soon Juan, Alliance for Reform and Democracy in Asia, Singapore Michael Kau, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, Taiwan George Mathew, Institute for Social Sciences, India Gus Miclat, Initiatives for International Dialogue, The Philippines Vo Van Ai, Que Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam, Vietnam |
Mantas Adoménas, Institute of Democratic Politics, Lithuania João Carlos Espada, Institute for Political Studies, Catholic University of Portugal Zanaa Jurmed, Center for Citizen's Alliance, Mongolia Robert LaGamma, Council for a Community of Democracies, United States Dorota Mitrus, European Institute for Democracy, Poland Erdenejargal Perenlei, Open Society Forum, Mongolia |
