Ole Holtved serves as Chief of Party for IFES in Pakistan. He has more than a decade of experience assisting electoral management bodies plan and implement elections in developing democracies and post-conflict environments.

Holtved has worked as a senior manager, advisor, consultant and researcher on elections in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. He was Chief of Operations for the 2002 Kosovo municipal elections and Deputy Chief of Operations for the 2005 Afghan parliamentary and provincial council elections. He has served as an advisor to election commissions in Zambia, Moldova, Ukraine, the occupied Palestinian territories, Iraq, Pakistan, Somaliland, Georgia, Indonesia and Fiji. Holtved has also been a consultant for elections in Nepal, Jordan, Ghana, Papua New Guinea, out-of-country elections for Iraq and out-of-country elections for Afghanistan.

His connection to Pakistan spans back to 1992 when he worked on projects in Karachi and Baluchistan. He returned to Pakistan as Senior Election Advisor for Afghan out-of-country voting in 2004. In 2008, he was engaged by IFES as Senior Election Management Advisor in Pakistan. He was appointed Country Director for IFES Pakistan in November 2011.

Holtved holds a M.Sc. from the Technical University of Denmark and has studied organizational theory and corporate strategy. Prior to working in the electoral field, he was a project manager designing and building FDA-compliant pharmaceutical factories in Denmark and Vietnam.

• Report on Poll Worker Training Program for the Legislative Election of June 25, 1995 in Haiti
• IFES, July 17, 1995
• South Africa: Technical Assistance Report
• November 1994
• Nicaragua: International Donor Meeting and Needs Assessment Final Report
• IFES, August 1994
• Nyali Means Change: The June 14, 1993 Referendum in Malawi, Final Activity Report, IFES Monitoring, Voter Education, and Pollworker Training Project
• July 30, 1993
• Report on Poll Worker Training Program for the Legislative Election of June 25, 1995 in Haiti
• IFES, July 17, 1995
• South Africa: Technical Assistance Report
• November 1994
• Nicaragua: International Donor Meeting and Needs Assessment Final Report
• IFES, August 1994
• Nyali Means Change: The June 14, 1993 Referendum in Malawi, Final Activity Report, IFES Monitoring, Voter Education, and Pollworker Training Project
• July 30, 1993