Shana Kaiser

Job Title: Assistant Programme Officer

Joined International IDEA in January, 2008.

Nationality: Canada

Programme: Design of Democratic Institutions and Processes (Electoral Processes)

Office: Stockholm (HQ)

Phone: +46 8 698 37 00 (switchboard)

Email: s.kaiser@idea.int

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Expertise at International IDEA:

• Participatory and Direct Democracy
• Election-related Conflict and Violence
• Electoral Justice

Experience:

• Semi-accredited BRIDGE facilitator (2009)
• Lecturer - Military Academy Karlberg Sweden (MHS K)(2007)
• Teaching Assistant - Sociological Research Methods, Department of Sociology, York University Canada (2006-2007)
• Researcher - Disaster Relief Monitoring Unit, Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission (2006)

Education:

• York University (Master of (Social) Environmental Studies (Thesis: NGO Accountability to Beneficiaries in Post-Tsunami Reconstruction Projects, Sri Lanka) Toronto, Canada 2007
• York University Centre for Refugee Studies (Graduate Diploma in Refugee Studies)Toronto, Canada 2007
• University of British Colombia (BA - Double Major in History and Comparative Religions) Vancouver, Canada 2001

Languages: English, French, Spanish, Swedish

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