technology at a large data processing company and before that as a project manager and a teacher. Ms Keizer is Chairman of IM Holdings Inc, Deputy Chairman of Invest SVG (the national investment promotions agency), a Director of Interactive Media Ltd. and Company Secretary and Director of SVG Publishers Inc, the company that prints all three national newspapers in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Ms Marcella Samba-Sesay (Sierra Leone) is a young political analyst, dedicated to enacting change and ensuring that governance is pro-poor and citizens’ rights directed. She is chairperson National Election Watch (NEW) leading a coalition of 375 international and local organizations charged with the responsibility of promoting Accountability and transparency in Public Elections in Sierra Leone. She is member of the Board of Directors of Millennium Challenge Corporation and previously Board Chair Media Matters for Women Sierra Leone, a local Organization which builds innovative communication networks reaching rural women and girls. As the current Head of Programmes for the Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) she has extensive experience building capacity in local communities for democratic participation and engaging government and other public and private officials in sustainable dialogue for democratic governance reforms. Such engagements have helped institute a human right’s culture in a post-war Sierra Leone, mobilizing women for political participation and making sure that services are adequately delivered to communities. She became a compelling voice for the acceptance of the Elections Result in the just concluded 2018 Elections in Sierra Leone. Ms Janet Love (South Africa) was appointed Commissioner of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in 2016. An anti-apartheid activist from the 1970s, Ms Love was involved in negotiating for South Africa’s democracy from 1991 until the first democratic elections. She was an MP in the Mandela Parliament from 1994 to 1999. She subsequently served in various government and civil society institutions, including working in the South African Reserve Bank for five years as head of strategic analysis in the Currency Department and as National Director of the public interest law firm, the Legal Resources Centre. She served a seven-year term (2009 to 2016) as a part-time member of the South African Human Rights Commission. Ms Love studied through the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of London and has post-graduate qualifications in public administration, development management and economics. Mr Nikoli Edwards (Trinidad and Tobago) is a Youth Advocate, Social Activist and Media Practitioner. Appointed as the youngest Temporary Independent Senator in his country, he serves as the youngest member of the Procurement Board of Trinidad and Tobago. He served as Vice Chairperson Policy, Advocacy and Projects of the Commonwealth Youth Council and works as a Motivational Speaker and Facilitator supporting students’ volunteerism efforts across the Caribbean. Nikoli graduated from the University of the West Indies with a BA Communication Studies and a PG Diploma in Mediation Studies. He is currently an MSc Mediation Studies student. Nikoli has served as an active student leader and is affiliated with several local and 65

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