Dr. Michael Boda

Michael Boda has served as Saskatchewan’s Chief Electoral Officer since June 2012. As an independent office of Saskatchewan’s Legislative Assembly, he is responsible for the administration and regulation of all provincial electoral events, including political finance. He is currently overseeing Saskatchewan’s 29th General Election.

For more than two decades, Boda has offered advice to national and international institutions on issues relating to election administration, law and assessment. He has served on the senior staff of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), a Washington, D.C.-based international nongovernmental organization dedicated to facilitating improved election administration worldwide. More recently, he has been a founding member of the steering committee for the Canadian Society of Election Official Training and the founding co-chair of the Secretariat for Electoral Coordination, a body constituted to facilitate coordination among Canada’s fourteen election management bodies.

Boda has been a visiting research fellow at the Brookings Institution and the National Endowment for Democracy. He has also provided advisory and assessment services internationally on electoral issues, working in several different countries, including Jordan, Pakistan, Ghana, Scotland and the United States, with institutions such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), and the Carter Center.

He holds doctorates from Oxford (Law) and Johns Hopkins (Political Science) universities, has been an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University, and is a Policy Fellow at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina and University of Saskatchewan.