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Tatiana Monney

Tatiana Monney is an electoral expert for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Governance Team of the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS). She brings 20 years of experience in electoral assistance, governance and peacebuilding with the United Nations, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) and the European Union (EU). She specializes on dialogue and conflict prevention. She is also a member of High-level Expert Group on digital Conflict of the Center for the Humanitarian Dialogue. From 2018 to 2020, Tatiana Monney worked as a Senior Electoral Adviser for the European External Action Service of the European Union. For the Swiss FDFA (2012-2018), she managed the programme on “Peace, Elections and Democracy” and facilitated negotiation processes between electoral management bodies and political parties in Tunisia, Egypt, Myanmar, Georgia and Zimbabwe. She also managed the Swiss Peacebuilding programme in Sahel from 2011-2012. Prior to this she worked as an Electoral Adviser for the United Nations Mission in Liberia (2010-2011) and for the Electoral Assistance Division of the Department for Political Affairs and Peacebuilding (in New York – 2007 to 2009- and in New Caledonia – February to June 2017). Ms. Monney co-edited a publication on the facilitation of electoral codes of conduct for political parties with International IIDEA in 2017 and edited a FDFA publication on “Elections to Peace in 2019”.