1. A Joint Initiative

2. Goals Encourage all relevant actors and stakeholders to protect the integrity of the electoral process Raise awareness of electoral processes’ key role in supporting sustainable democracy Promote the adherence to international electoral principles by national, regional, continental and global actors Re-situate electoral processes within security, democratization and development contexts

3. Objectives Provide a compelling and comprehensive approach for national and international efforts to successfully safeguard the integrity of the electoral process Provide recommendations to national governments, institutions and civil society as well as international and regional organizations on how to collaborate effectively to translate the new approach into practice Promote, including at high political level, renewed commitment to the integrity of electoral processes

4. Commission’s Tasks Development of recommendations – Identify major challenges – Examine engagement of the international community – Examine the roles different stakeholders – development, human rights, security and electoral communities Mobilisation of political commitment – Advocate a more central place for electoral processes – Publicly present its recommendations- advocate for inclusion of recommendations on the agendas of relevant stakeholders

5. Leadership The Commission’s Chair is Mr Kofi Annan, Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation and United Nations Secretary-General (1997- 2006) Vice Chair is Professor Ernesto Zedillo, Fredrick Iseman ’74 Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and President of Mexico (1994-2000)

6. Commissioners Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel Peace Laureate and former President of the Republic of Finland (1994-2000) Madeleine K. Albright, former US Secretary of State (1997-2001) and Chairman of the National Democratic Institute Louise Arbour, President and CEO of the International Crisis Group Vidar Helgesen, Secretary-General of International IDEA and Deputy Foreign Minister of Norway (2001-2005) Festus Mogae, former President of Botswana (1998-2008) Amartya Sen, Nobel Economics Laureate, Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University Javier Solana, President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics and former EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy (1999-2009) Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former President of the Republic of Latvia (1999-2007) Hassan Wirajuda, former Foreign Minister (2001-2009) and Member of the Council of Presidential Advisers of the Republic of Indonesia

7. Friends of The Commission Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand (1999-2008) and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme Lynn Pascoe, Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs, United Nations Rima Khalaf Hunaidi, Undersecretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission and Social Commission for Western Asia, former Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan (1999-2000)

8. Advisory Group

9. Director of the Commission Professor Stephen Stedman, Freeman Spogli Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University.

10. Secretariat of the Commission Hosted by International IDEA Contact us on Globalcommission@idea.intGlobalcommission@idea.int Thank You!