Anthony Banbury

Anthony Banbury

Anthony Banbury is president and CEO at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems. IFES is a global, nonpartisan nonprofit organization based in Arlington, Virginia. Banbury was formerly the U.N. assistant secretary-general for field support.

Latest Articles

Opinion: Corruption is a pandemic. The solution is democracy.

Opinion: Corruption is a pandemic. The solution is democracy.

about 4 years ago // Transparency and Accountability

Significant action is needed to bring life to what are, for now, just words on a page. To clean up governance, we must clean up elections.

Opinion: Elections and COVID-19 — what we learned from Ebola

Opinion: Elections and COVID-19 — what we learned from Ebola

over 5 years ago // COVID-19

Over 40 countries around the world have elections scheduled in the remainder of 2020. To avoid a democracy crisis sparked by COVID-19, governments should heed the lessons from Liberia’s experience with elections and Ebola.