Dolores Gandulfo

Dolores Gandulfo has extensive experience in democracy, electoral systems, and human rights in Latin America. She is currently the Secretary of International Relations of the MERCOSUR Parliament.

She founded and directed the Electoral Observatory of the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPPPAL) for ten years, coordinating more than 40 electoral missions across Latin America and the Caribbean. She also served as Director of Institutional Policy at the Ombudsman’s Office of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (2013–2023) and as coordinator of the Working Group on Electoral Observation with a Human Rights Perspective of the Ibero-American Federation of Ombudsmen (FIO).

She is a member of the Observatory of Political Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean (IIJ-UNAM), the Argentine Association of International Relations Studies (AERIA), the Ojo Paritario Collective, and the Network of Women Political Scientists.

She has published extensively on electoral observation, human rights, and political parties in Latin America. She is a doctoral candidate in political science at the National University of General San Martín (Argentina), holds a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University, and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Salvador.