is the Head of the Election Department of the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). He manages and oversees election-related activities across the OSCE region. Alexander is responsible for management of programmatic as well as financial and operational issues in the department. Alexander leads needs assessment missions, expert and follow-up visits. Alexander joined ODIHR in 2010 as an Election Adviser and since then organized election observation missions to a number of countries, contributed to developing and refining ODIHR’s election observation methodology, developed and refined the curricula for election observer training activities, and led the development of the ODIHR e-learning courses for election observers. Prior to joining the ODIHR in 2010, Alexander worked with the World Bank in the area of economic development and research, including in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda. He holds an MA in Political Science from the Central European University, Hungary, and an MSc in International Development and Management from Lund University, Sweden. Alexander is a Belarusian citizen from Minsk.