Event Date: October 12, 2010 - 11:30 am
Location: Social Sciences Building, 120 Universi

A talk by Grant Kippen, Centre for the Study of Democracy, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University.

Presented by CIPS and the School of International Development and Global Studies.This free event will be in English. Registration is not required.

Grant Kippen was Chair of the Electoral Complaints Commission in Afghanistan for the 2009 Presidential and Provincial Council elections. He has spent the last 30 years involved in electoral politics and democracystrengthening. In Canada, he has worked within the Prime Minister’s Office, as an Advisor to a federal Cabinet Minister, a Special Assistant to a Member of Parliament, as well as the Director of Organization for a national political party. Internationally, he has worked in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Egypt, Georgia, Jordan (in support of the 2005 Iraq elections), Kosovo, Moldova, Nepal, Pakistan, Timor Leste and Ukraine. During this time he has been employed by the United Nations, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, the National Democratic Institute, ElectionsCanada and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs. His publications have addressed on such issues as e-democracy, electoral financing within post-conflict countries, the impact of information technology on electoral campaigns as well as on elections and democracy in Afghanistan.