Annex I: BIOGRAPHIES OF CHAIRPERSON AND OBSERVERS Mr Gary Dunn (Australia) is a senior government business expert. He was former Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, and Deputy Secretary DFAT and Deputy Director-General AusAID in Australia. He has over thirtyfive years' public sector experience mostly at the senior executive level. Gary specialises in international development, social services and corporate affairs and has deep experience in organisational renewal, corporate governance, executive management, strategic planning, policy development and program management. Gary currently has his own business as a senior executive consultant. Mr Darrell Bradley (Belize) is a Belizean attorney, lecturer, and politician. Darrell currently practises in the areas of corporate, property and administrative law and he is an adjunct faculty at the University of the West Indies (Belize). Darrell previously served as a two-term Mayor of Belize City, Vice President of the Belize Bar Association, Director of the Central Bank of Belize, President of the Belize Mayors Association, and Vice Chairman of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum. Rev Mpho MBW Moruakgomo (Botswana) is President, Botswana Association of Local Authorities, and Chairperson of CLGF. He first became a councillor in 2004; from 2006-2009 he was council chairperson in Kgatlen District, having previously been chair of finance. He is an economist and theologian by training and has worked in local government and rural development, youth and health. From 1997-2001 he was Executive Director of the Botswana National Youth Council and from 2001-2004 Programme Technical Officer for the United Nations Population Fund responsible for reproductive and sexual health policy. He has served on a number of government and national councils, task forces and reference groups including the National Vision Council, Social Values Advisory Committee, Botswana Council of Churches, Police Council and National Children’s Council. As President of the Botswana Association of Local Authorities he is also a member of the United Cities and Local Governments Africa Executive Committee. Dr Samuel Azu’u Fonkam (Cameroon) holds a combined Honours Degree in Law and Economics from the University of Yaoundé, and an LL.M. and Ph. D in Law from the University of London. Dr Fonkam has taught Law for over twenty-five years at the University of Yaoundé and was previously Chair of the Cameroon Electoral Commission, Elections Cameroon, a position he held for eight years. Before leaving ELECAM, he served as Technical Adviser at the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon and Deputy Secretary General (Deputy Clerk) of the Cameroon National Assembly. He is currently a Member of the Steering Committee of the Commonwealth Electoral Network (CEN), Vice President of the Réseau des Compétences Électorales Francophones (RECEF), Member of the Executive Committee of the Association of African Election Administrations (AAEA) and Member of the Audit and Oversight Committee of the Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB). He has led Elections Observer Missions for the African Union, the 61

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