Tihana Bartulac-Blanc

Associate Director, Center for Democracy and Election Management
Adjunct Professor of International Election Administration, SPA

Tihana Bartulac-Blanc has worked in the planning and management of international elections since 1996, including the transitional and post-conflict elections in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. She managed voter registration and elections for refugees and displaced persons, drafted electoral procedures and helped draft election laws, designed and implemented training and voter education programs. As IFES Deputy Chief of Party for Programs in Iraq, Ms. Bartulac-Blanc served as a senior manager for the international electoral assistance team.

Ms. Bartulac-Blanc also worked in Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Guyana, Nigeria, and Jordan advising and assisting national authorities and non-governmental organizations on various election issues, including monitoring and mitigation of electoral violence. Ms. Bartulac-Blanc helped develop the innovative methodology for Election Violence Education and Resolution (EVER) Project aimed at monitoring and mitigating electoral violence, implementing it in a number of countries. She also oversaw a project in Afghanistan to spur reconstruction and enhance the responsiveness and accountability of the new government through small-scale, community oriented grants.

Before joining American University's Center for Democracy and Election Management, Ms.Bartulac-Blanc was a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy where she had been researching minorities and elections in post-Yugoslav jurisdictions.

Ms. Bartulac-Blanc has written and given lectures on various election topics at U.S. and international academic and democracy promoting institutions such as the Princeton University, George Washington University, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, and the National Endowment for Democracy. She holds an MA in International Policy and Practice from the George Washington University.

bartulac@american.edu · (202) 885-1426