Dr. Magnus Ohman has worked with political finance issues since the 1990s, focusing on increasing compliance, transparency and sustainable solutions. His research includes both country and macro-level studies of trends and practices in political finance oversight and related areas, such as abuse of state resources, gender equality and electoral violence. His practical work includes assistance to legislators, implementing agencies, civil society, media and political parties. Among others, he has advised the
Serving as Senior Political Finance Adviser at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (I FES), he has supported political finance initiatives in more than 45 countries, including Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Egypt, Fiji, Georgia, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, North Macedonia, the Maldives, Moldova, Montenegro, Myanmar / Burma, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea
Dr. Ohman was the lead writer of the BRIDGE module on political finance and his writings on political finance have been translated into 20 languages, including Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bangla / Bengali, Burmese / Myanmar, Dari, French, Georgian, Bahasa Indonesia, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Nepali, Pashto, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Sinhala, Tamil, Ukrainian and Urdu. Apart from IFES, he has also done work for the United Nations Development Program , the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ,