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Stephanie Lynn is a senior program director responsible for managing NDI's programs for Malaysia and Burma. Until late 2008, Ms. Lynn 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, Ms. 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, Ms. Lynn returned to Serbia after the dramatic elections of October 2000. In her 12 years with NDI, Ms. Lynn has trained thousands of women and men from 20 countries, across three continents. Her most recent work for NDI has included delivering programs in Hong Kong, Afghanistan, Iraq and on North Korea. She is also actively involved in linking an Indonesian lead NGO, Kemitraan, to NDI’s South East Asia women’s political participation networks.
A Canadian native, Ms. 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. Ms. Lynn earned a B.A. (Honors) in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia and lives in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Selected writings by Ms. Lynn:
- Political Campaign Planning Manual, A Step by Step Guide to Winning Elections, manual available in Bahasa, English, Mandarin and Tamil, March 2009
- Trainer’s Manual on Increasing Opportunities for Women within Politics and Political Parties, manual available in English and Tagalog, January 2005