Latin America Regional Advisory Council /

Dolores Gandulfo

Dolores Gandulfo has extensive experience in democracy, electoral systems, and human rights in Latin America. Currently, she serves as the Director of the Electoral Observatory of the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPPPAL). In this role, she has coordinated more than 24 electoral missions in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela.

Dolores is also the Director of Institutional Policy at the Ombudsman’s Office of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. She previously held the position of coordinator of the Electoral Observation Working Group with a Human Rights Perspective at the Ibero-American Ombudsman Federation (FIO). Additionally, she is a member of the Observatory of Political Reforms of Latin America and the Caribbean (IIJ-UNAM), the Association for Studies in International Relations of Argentina (AERIA), the Ojo Paritario Collective, and the Network of Political Scientists.

Dolores has extensively published on electoral observation and human rights in Latin America. She holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown University and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Universidad del Salvador. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science from the National University of General San Martín (Argentina).