• About
    • Background
    • Implementers
    • Mandate
  • Activities
    • EMB's Continental Fora & AAEA General Assemblies
      • Ghana - 2025
      • Benin - 2023
      • Mozambique - 2022
    • Peer Learning Missions
      • Italy - 2026
      • Benin - 2026
      • Djibouti - 2026
      • Ivory Coast - 2025
      • Cameroon - 2025
      • Malawi - 2025
      • Burundi - 2025
      • Gabon - 2025
      • Ghana - 2024
      • Namibia - 2024
      • Comoros - 2024
      • Liberia - 2023
      • Kenya - 2022
    • African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance
      • Guinea-Bissau - 2025
      • Benin - 2025
      • Guinea-Bissau - 2025
      • Côte d’Ivoire - 2024
      • Côte d’Ivoire - 2024
      • Ghana - 2024
      • Mozambique - 2023
      • Kenya - 2023
      • ⁠Senegal - 2023
      • Côte d’Ivoire - 2022
    • Regional Networks of EMB's
      • GABON – ROGEAC 2025
      • BURUNDI - ROGEAC 2025
      • CAMEROON - ROGEAC 2025
      • ⁠SOUTH AFRICA - ECF-SADC - 2023
      • SEYCHELLES - ECF-SADC - 2024
      • ESWATINI - ECF-SADC - 2025
      • FRANCE - RECEF 2023
      • BENIN - RECEF 2024
      • ITALY – OECD 2024
    • Declaration of Principles
      • Switzerland - 2025
      • United States of America - 2025
      • Poland - 2024
      • Ethiopia - 2023
    • Transitional Justice
      • DR Congo - 2025
      • Kenya - 2024
      • Uganda - 2024
      • Morocco - 2023
      • ⁠Togo - 2022
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  • Organisational structure

Fabio Bargiacchi

Founder and Executive Director
Jose Manuel Pinto-Teixeira

ECES Vice President
Filiberto Ceriani Sebregondi

Vicepresident of ECES’ Strategic & Advisory Committee
Piero Scarpellini

Secretary of Strategic & Advisory Committe
Eva Palmans

Head of Operations
Francis Oke

Senior Electoral Advisor for Africa
Chakir Elantari

Head of Finance and Administration
Alessio Beltrami

Deputy Head of Operations
Jacopo Ardito

Deputy Head of Programme
Ruben Cioschi

Deputy Head of Finance and Administration
Khaldoun Dudin

Senior ICT Electoral Expert
Joël Minoungou

Senior Operations Advisor
Sofia Antonetti

Programme and Communication Officer
Sylvestre Somo

Senior Electoral Expert
Carlotta Papini

Programme and Communication Officer
Giovanni Barbera

Operations & Admin Expert
ECES Headquarters
  • Brussels - Belgium
  • Av. Louise 222, 1050 Ixelles
  • +32 2 325 55 58
  • info@eces.eu
  • IG: @eces.eu
MAECI Italy
  • 1 Piazzale della Farnesina
  • 00135 Roma - Italy
  • +390636911
  • ministero.affariesteri@cert.esteri.it
  • IG: @italymfa
AU Headquarters
  • Roosevelt Street W21K19
  • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • Tel: +251 11 551 77 00
  • Fax: +251 11 551 78 44
  • IG: @africanunion_official