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Niklas Wilhelmsson is Head of the Democracy and Election Unit and Deputy Director of the Department for Democracy and Public Law at the Ministry of Justice in Finland. He has 20 years of experience working with democracy, elections and civil society issues within the Finnish government. He is the Vice-chair of the Council of Europe Steering Committee on Democracy (CDDEM) and has a broad experience of international collaboration in the field. He has worked as a temporary expert on elections, democracy and transparency issues in the Western Balkans and in EU’s Eastern partnership countries. Before joining the government, he worked as a researcher and acting lecturer at the University of Helsinki.