Scipion du Chatenet

For the last 25 years, he has worked for international organisations or large consortium at management level (as project manager and operations specialist). Scipion spent five years working for the UN-DPKO/Field Administration and Logistics Division (Rwanda, Angola, Croatia, Iraq). He also worked in soldiers rehabilitation into civilian life in 1992 for the International Labour Organisation in Cambodia and in 1993 with the World Food Program in Mozambique. Scipion got involved in 1994 in the first democratic election in South Africa. Since then, he has gained over 18 years’ professional work experience in elections in senior management positions through electoral observation, assessment missions, and technical assistance with the European Commission , United Nations agencies, International Foundation for Electoral System, European Center for Electoral Support, Electoral Reform International Services and for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe / ODHIR. He has worked with elections in more than fifty different countries on six continents. Upon availability, he has been an Operations & Security Trainer for the Needs project and for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Estonia for operations and security expert candidates. In 1991, he was a consultant at the United Nations Secretariat in New York at the Investment Management Services. He has a diploma in finance from N.Y.I.F. in the USA.
 
He held the position of Head of Project in the Union of Comoros (PACT I), where he worked for ECES with the national independent electoral commission in setting up the legislatives elections alongside local elections (2014-2015). And from October 2019 till July 2020, Scipion is working as the ECES Senior Logistics and Electoral Expert for the EURECS project in Ethiopia.

scipion.duchatenet@eces.eu