Ron Gould

Ronald Gould was a Canadian election official and international elections expert. He spent 20 years as assistant chief electoral officer at Elections Canada before retiring in 2001 after 47 years of public service. He also worked on election missions in Cambodia, Bosnia, Haiti, Mozambique and South Africa, contributing to election administration beyond Canada.

The UK Electoral Commission appointed Gould to lead the Independent review of Scotland's 2007 parliamentary and local elections after unusually high numbers of rejected ballots. His report argued that planning had treated voters as an afterthought. Gould also served as a senior executive at International IDEA in the 1990s. The organisation announced his death in 2025 and credited his work on global electoral standards.