Stephanie Lynn is a senior program director responsible for managing NDI’s programs for Malaysia and Burma. Programs in Malaysia focus on support for parliamentary and electoral reform. The Institute's long standing Burma program has recently shifted focus to SE Asia-based activities, complementing activities in both Europe and the United States. Until late 2008, Stephanie directed the Institute’s political party programs in Indonesia and its women’s political participation efforts in Southeast Asia.
Before moving to Indonesia in 2003, Lynn managed similar portfolios with NDI’s Serbia program for five years. Living first in Belgrade under the Milosevic regime and then operating ground-breaking programs from neighboring Hungary, Lynn was able to return to Serbia after the dramatic elections of October 2000. In her ten years with NDI, Lynn has trained more than 2,000 women and men from twenty countries, across three continents.
A Canadian native, Lynn worked as the Executive Assistant to the Minister of Finance in the British Columbia (BC) government. Before that, she served for seven years as an organizer of the BC New Democratic Party (NDP), acting as a trainer and election campaign manager, during which time she also developed and delivered innovative, successful campaigns to youth voters. Lynn, who earned a B.A. (Honours) in Anthropology, lives in Jakarta with her husband and their seven year old son.
