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Vienna, 24 June 2026. We are honoured to welcome Dr. Beata Martin-Rozumiłowicz to the Advisory Board of Election-Watch.EU. 

Beata is an electoral expert with more than two decades of election observation experience globally. She is currently Deputy Chief Observer (DCO) for the EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Zambia for the 13 August 2026 general elections. She’s also been Deputy Head of Mission for the OSCE/ODIHR EOM to Moldova (2025), and DCO for EU EOMs to Zimbabwe (2023), Kenya (2022), and The Gambia (2021/2022). Previously, she was Director for Europe and Eurasia at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (2016-2021) and also headed OSCE/ODHIR’s Election Department (2009-2016). Over the past four years, she’s been an independent electoral consultant, working with the EU, EODS, EPD, OSCE/ODIHR, UNDP, USAID, and the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD).

Beata has just co-authored a special issue on new political party assistance strategies in Policy Studies. She’s also published on topics of election observation, technology in elections, disinformation, political/electoral developments, media reform, and political/campaign finance. She holds a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) and a M.Phil. (Masters) in Politics from the University of Oxford and was research fellow for Oxford’s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (1999-2000).