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
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