Council of Europe

Pierre Garrone is head of the Division of elections and political parties at the secretariat of the Venice Commission (Council of Europe), PhD (Geneva University), Master of Advanced European Studies (College of Europe), avocat (Switzerland). He was inter alia strongly involved in the drafting of the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters, which is the Council of Europe reference document in the electoral field. His publications address in particular the following issues: the Venice Commission; electoral law; comparative and Swiss constitutional law; European Union law – the freedoms of the European single market.