Karin Alexander

Karin Alexander runs Idasa’s strategic team on Measuring and Monitoring Democracy and is a member of the Ibrahim Index on African Governance Advisory Council. A Zimbabwean Rhodes Scholar with an MPhil in Development Studies from Oxford University and an undergraduate degree from Harvard University, her areas of specialisation include democratisation, governance and conflict management. Karin co-wrote Oil and Governance Report: A Case Study of Angola, Chad, Gabon and São Tomé and Principe and co-edited Peace in the Balance: The Crisis in Sudan, published by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, and produced ‘Peace Beyond Justice’, an educational documentary on the Gacaca Courts in Rwanda. Idasa’s States in Transition Observatory (under her management) regularly produces publications including Developing a Transformation Agenda for Zimbabwe and monthly Election Watch monitoring reports on key SADC states.