Christina holds a PhD in Public International Law and has obtained a Master degree in Human Rights and Democratization. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Law at the Vienna University.  Her research focuses on human rights and the international standards for political participation.  Christina has published various articles on election observation (e.g. International Election Observation by the OSCE and the Human Right to Political Participation, in European Public Law 2007/1).  She has also participated in numerous election observation missions as a Short Term Observer (STO) with the OSCE (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Moldova) and the EU (Nepal and Venezuela). She worked as the Legal Analyst for the EUEOM to Ecuador in 2007.

Maria Espinosa has taken part in a number of election observation missions on the Balkans, in sub-saharan Africa, south-east Asia, the Middle East and the Maghreb region, most recently in Indonesia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Mauritania and Pakistan.
In addition, she has for several years participated in the training of national election observers, in civic education, public relations.
She lectures at several universities on issues pertaining to Islam and the Orient, organizing seminars on Islamism and democratization, on conflict resolution in the Middle East. Maria has a Masters in Semitic Philology and in Middle Eastern Sciences.

Anna Schmidt holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, specialized in Public Administration, Comparative Politics and International Relations. She is a research fellow in governance at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex where she teaches on a wide range of issues related to international relations and political governance with particular emphasis on humanitarian aid, forced migration, post-conflict reconstruction, as well as human rights.  She has several years of field experience in conflict and post-conflict regions across Sub-Saharan Africa, including humanitarian aid-management. She has participated in EU election observation missions in Uganda, Burundi, Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Since 1994, Alexandre Castanias works as a consultant focussing on electoral affairs. He has taken part in more than twenty observation missions throughout the world, in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and in the CEEC. He has also worked for a number of organisations such as the United Nations, the European Union, the OSCE/ODIHR and IFES, in the field of electoral assistance and election observation. He has also undertaken other types of missions, related to Human Rights in Rwanda (1995), and humanitarian affairs for MSF in Burundi in 1996. Alexandre shares his time between lectures at the Ecole Française des Attachés de Presse (EFAP) and offers his expertise as a consultant in media, communications and electoral related issues. He has a degree in Communications and PR (Paris), Electoral Administration (Essex) and Media Monitoring (Pavia).

Carlo Pappalardo started his election observation experience with OSCE/ODIHR in the former Yugoslavia. Between 1999 and 2000 he served as an OSCE Election Officer in Kosovo. As Short-term Observer and Long-term Observer he has participated in a number of EU election observation missions in Asia, Africa and Central-South America. Carlo also served as Observer Coordinator with the EU EOMS in Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and East Timor and worked as a technical assistant on election related matters in Ivory Coast.
Before participating in election observation missions, he worked for several years with various Italian NGOs and humanitarian associations on the Balkans and in South and Central America.

Martim Freire has extensive experience in elections and has worked as a Short Term , Long Term Observer and supervisor in OSCE and EU election observation missions.  He has previously been the Security Expert in EU Election Observation Missions in Kenya (2007 and 2002), Bolivia and Nicaragua (2006) and Sierra Leone (2007). Most recently, he was the Assistant Security Expert in the EUEOM Pakistan 2008. He was also the Project Manager for the Implementing Partner IOM of the EU EOM in Mozambique (2003), participated as an Observer Coordinator in EUEOM East Timor (2001) and Operations Expert in the EU EOMs to Afghanistan (2004 and 2005), Ethiopia and Venezuela (2005). .