Evan B. Smith

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Location: 

Washington, DC

Status: 

Professional

Expertise Area: 

development, democracy and governance

Email: 

evanbsmith@gmail.com

Affiliation (Occupation/Company/University etc.): 

Democracy International

Country of Citizenship: 

United States

Date of Birth: 

1982

Evan B. Smith is a Program Officer at Democracy International. He recently completed the Masters Degree program in Democracy and Governance at Georgetown University, where he was President of the Forum for the Study of Democracy and Autocracy. His interests include elections and election administration, international democracy promotion, transitional justice, and postconflict reconstruction. He was previously a graduate intern at Democracy International, and in February 2008 he helped organize and participated in DI's election observation mission to Pakistan.

Mr. Smith served for three years as an election administrator at the local and state levels, where he has worked on issues relating to voting technology, election law, pollworker training and recruitment, voter information management, and public relations. In 2007 he worked as a graduate intern with the Pew Charitable Trusts' electionline.org project, a nonpartisan, non-advocacy website providing up-to-the-minute news and analysis on election administration and reform. Mr. Smith has also served as a short term observer for the 2007 parliamentary elections in Armenia for the OSCE observation mission. Mr. Smith received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, where he studied Foreign Affairs and History, focusing on political transitions, elections and voting, and Japanese history.

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