Harry Neufeld

I am a Canadian election administration professional with more than 33 years of management experience. I have developed a deep understanding of the entire spectrum of legislative, public policy, process, technology and logistics issues that are associated with the delivery of electoral democracy.

I currently work as an independent electoral management consultant and am based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

In June 2010 I completed an eight-year statutory term as Chief Electoral Officer for the province of British Columbia.

Previously I held senior management positions with BC Systems Corporation, EDS Canada, Elections BC, Elections Canada, and the United Nations.

In addition to working directly for electoral management bodies, an international organization, a crown corporation, and the corporate private sector, I also have more than a decade's worth of experience working as an independent electoral consultant. That consulting work has involved advising international electoral assistance agencies and electoral commissions around the globe.

My electoral management consulting work has included assignments in Australia, Botswana, Britain, Guinea, Guyana, India, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Uganda, and Zimbabwe as well as numerous electoral jurisdictions in the United States and Canada.

I began my career in elections focused on computerizing the management of electoral information. In 1982, my first major assignment was to assist a technical team and help Elections BC computerize its provincial voters list and introduce information technology into the management of elections. British Columbia was the first provincial jurisdiction in Canada to successfully automate its voters list.

In the early 1990s, I became Elections Canada's first Director of Information Technology, and was responsible for computerization of lists of electors, digitized mapping services and the introduction of general office automation.