The National Democratic Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability in government.

Félix Ulloa, Ph. D., is NDI's senior resident director in Nicaragua, having previously served as NDI’s senior resident director in Haiti (2000-2008) and Morocco (2008-2009). These programs have addressed the areas of political party-strengthening, poll watcher training, domestic observation, electoral reform, civic education and civil society advocacy. Previous to NDI, Mr. Ulloa served as president of the Salvadoran non-government organization Institute for Juridical Studies and as magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in his native El Salvador from 1994 to 1999.

He has political party experience as a candidate, campaign manager and member of the political commission of the National Revolutionary Movement (affiliated to the Socialist International) which participated allied with the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front for El Salvador’s first post-civil war general elections.

He has taught at the University of El Salvador and at Central American University "José Simeón Cañas" (Catholic University) in El Salvador and at the post-graduate department of political sciences of the Technological University of El Salvador. Mr. Ulloa has also taught at the Spanish School of Middlebury College in Vermont, and has worked as electoral expert with the Organization of American States, the International Foundation for Election Systems, CAPEL, International IDEA and the United Nations, providing technical assistance for electoral bodies, political parties and civic organizations. He has served as an international consultant on democracy strengthening, electoral observer and conflict mitigation programs in Latin America and Africa.

Mr. Ulloa's publications include: Política, Estado y Sociedad, Pensamiento democrático, El rol de los partidos politicos en la Institucionalidad Centroamericana, Haiti: Two Hundred Years of Elections and Constitutions, El Dinero y la Democracia Un caso de Estudio. He has published numerous articles and studies on democracy strengthening, election processes, civil society and political parties.

Mr. Ulloa earned law degrees from the Complutense University in Madrid, and from the University of El Salvador. He completed his post-graduate studies at UNED, Madrid, Spain; the Institut International d'Administration Publique in Paris, France, and at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.