Balázs Jarábik is an international development executive as well as political analyst, strategist and adviser. He heads the Kiev based office of Pact, Inc. overseeing civil society and independent media development projects in Belarus and Ukraine. He is writing extensively as Associate Fellow at the Madrid based pan European think tank FRIDE. He combines international development, particularly in democracy and governance, with applied policy analysis and enriching both international development projects and political analysis with field based perspectives. He has consulted and advised civic organizations, political parties and campaigns in the number of countries of the Balkans and Eurasia, national bodies such as the Parliament and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia as well as international institutions such as the European Parliament, Freedom House or OSCE. He has also participated in international elections observation missions in Eurasia, the Balkans and South-East Asia.