Dr Walecki has more than 25 years of democracy assistance and governance experience working in roughly 50 countries around the world, implementing programs dealing with democratic governance, anti-corruption and political finance, political party assistance, and parliamentary support. Dr. Walecki served as the NDI Senior Country Director in Ukraine (2022-2025), the Executive Director of the EUROPAEUM (2020-2022), as well as the Head of the Democratization Department with OSCE/ODIHR for over 10 years. He also worked at the European Partnership for Democracy (EPD) as the Executive Director, as a Senior Advisor for political finance for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), and as a Senior Expert for the Institute of Public Affairs and Batory Foundation in Poland.