Paulos Tesfagiorgis

Job Title: Senior Advisor

Joined International IDEA in 2007.

Nationality: Canada/Eritrea

Programme: Africa

Office: South Africa

Phone: +27 12 460 5305 (switchboard)

Email: p.tesfagiorgis@idea.int

Expertise at International IDEA:
Paulos Tesfagiorgis is the Senior Advisor for Democracy and Constitution Building of International IDEA, based in the IDEA Pretoria Office. He has extensive teaching experience in family law, public international law and constitutional law at the University of Asmara, Eritrea (19936200 and was involved in the drafting of the Eritrean Constitution as a member of the Constitution Commission of Eritrea (Executive Committee in 1994-1997. Subsequently, he chaired/coordinated the Law Reform Programme (1997-1998) which was tasked with reviewing, revising and reforming all Eritrean laws inherited from Ethiopia and harmonize them with the new Eritrean Constitution. He was also involved in drafting the first election laws for Eritrea as a member of the Committee to Draft Election Laws for Eritrea (1997-2001). In 2004-2006, he was involved in the Iraqi constitution making process in Baghdad as a Senior Legal Officer with the UNDPA and UNAMI. He graduated from Haile Sellassie I University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with LL.B.; received his LL.M. from McGill University, Montreal, Canada; completed course work towards MLI (Master of Legal Institutions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

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