Luis has 11 years of experience on democratization, institution-building and legislative reform in transitional societies, with a specific focus on electoral systems. He has experience in different international organizations (UN, OSCE, EU, IOM) in the Middle East, South-East Asia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Balkans, eastern Europe, Africa and South America. He has held different positions during the implementation of all types of election projects, including election administration, assessments, technical advice and observation missions. He was Deputy Chief Observer in Zambia.

Rebecca Cox is a British lawyer with extensive experience of elections and democratization work, both as an observer and in technical assistance. She has worked on many electoral processes around the world, from Cambodia to Bosnia, from Ghana to Guatemala. During 2005 she worked as an election commissioner on the joint international/Afghan election commission that oversaw the Afghan parliamentary elections. She worked for several years as a human rights lawyer with the U.N. in Latin America. She has also practiced law in New York and London, and worked on criminal law reform for the British government.

Raphaël Pouyé has been working in postconflict environments since 1999, the year when he first entered Timor. In addition to taking part in electoral missions with the OSCE, the UN and the EU in Timor, Bosnia, Kosovo, Mozambique, Burundi and DR Congo, he has carried out political science research on clandestine resistance movements and state building in Timor and Kosovo. A PhD candidate from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Raphaël speaks Bahasa Indonesia and Portuguese and has worked for nearly two years with the UN in Timor. His previous post was Political expert with the EU Electoral Observation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (June-December 2006).

Carlo Pappalardo has e lection observation experience with OSCE/ODIHR in ex-Yugoslavia and also served as STO and LTO in a number EU Observation Missions in Africa, Asia and Central/South America. He has been Observer Coordinator two times, in Mozambique 2004 and in Guinea Bissau 2005. In 2006 he spent 6 months as election consultant in Ivory Coast. Before starting election observation he used to work and collaborate with various Italian NGOs and humanitarian associations in the Balkans and in South and Central America.

Miguel Has worked for the United Nations Department of Public Information for 8 years at Headquarters in New York. He has more than 16 years of experience in the field of Logistics including four years in UN Missions in countries as Namibia (UNTAG), Angola (UNAVEN II) Western Sahara (MINURSO) and South Africa. More recently he has participated in European Union Election Observation and Exploratory Missions in countries such as Zimbabwe, Timor Leste 2002, Pakistan, Kenya, Nigeria, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Nicaragua and Timor-Leste 2007.

Juan Manuel GIL (Sergeant Guardia Civil Police Force). He served in Police Force for more than 18 years. Police Courses completed: Bomb Search Expert, Bomb Disposal Expert, X-Ray Operator. Crime Scene Investigator. Investigator Judge. As Chief Bomb Squad,  being designated as expert in many different special operations in Spain. International Experience as IPTF (International Police Task Force) in Bosnia, . UNPOLICE (Trainer) in Kosovo, UNMISET ( Timor Leste). NATO Force  as MP in  Kosovo. Nowadays, as EU EOM Security Expert in Timor Leste.

Paulo Nogueira is a Portuguese journalist who has spent most of his 25 year-long career in Asia, covering in particular the Timor-Leste issue since 1985. After a first visit to Dili in 1994, he became the first-ever Portuguese correspondent to Indonesia and Timor-Leste in January 1999, when he opened a Lusa News Agency office in Jakarta. From 2000 to 2002, he was Press Attaché of the Portuguese Embassy in Dili and one of his tasks was to work on Timorese media development. He has covered elections in Portugal, Indonesia, Timor-Leste and Macau, and was Electoral Observer to the Timor-Leste Presidential Election in 2002.