Keboitse Machangana is director of global programs at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) based in Stockholm, Sweden.

She leads and manages a portfolio that covers International IDEA´s democracy support in electoral processes, constitution building, political participation and representation, democracy and development, and citizen-led democracy assessments. She also focuses on integrating gender, diversity, and conflict sensitivity into the work of the institute.

For more than two decades, Ms. Machangana has worked in the democracy and governance field, with a specific focus on women´s rights and gender equality, democracy assessment and measurement, and the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of democracy assistance programmes.

Before being appointed to her current position, Ms. Machangana previously served in a number of positions with International IDEA. Prior to this, she was democracy and governance advisor at the U.S.A.I.D. regional center for Southern Africa, and executive director and coordinator of the political education project at Emang Basadi Women’s Association in Botswana.

Ms. Machangana holds a master’s degree in public administration and a postgraduate diploma in education from the University of Botswana. She also has a master’s degree in pastoral ministry with the Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary in Newburgh, Indiana.