Telibert Laoc is a co-founding trustee of the Democratic Insights Group, a think tank that looks into systems to promote electoral competitiveness and voter-centered processes.   He is a senior professional lecturer at the Political Science and Development Studies at the De La Salle University and a senior resident director for elections and civil society development for Asia for the National Democratic Institute (ndi.org).  He joined NDI in 2004 and has since served as resident director in Timor Leste (2006-2008, 2017) and Papua New Guinea (2013), and elections director in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, and Bougainville.  From 2017 to 2022, he was with Institute’s Afghanistan country office to support nonpartisan citizen observation of elections.  He continues to be involved in work on electoral integrity, technology in elections, international and domestic election observation, democratic reform, and capacity building of civil society organizations. He served as regional director, executive director, member of the board, and national vice chairperson for strategy and operations of the National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (namfrel.org.ph) from 1986 to 2017.  He holds an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management and is a fellow at the Institute of Corporate Directors (icd.ph).