Eric Mahmood Syddique (1936 - January 2020)[1][2] was chief executive of the UK Electoral Reform Society in the 1990s.
[3][4][5][6] From 2001 to 2013 he was secretary of Electoral Reform International Services, which provides assistance in conducting elections worldwide.
[10] Syddique was a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House,[11] and vice chairman of the UK's H S Chapman Society.
[14] He wrote the entry for Enid Lakeman (one of his predecessors as ERS chief executive, who died in 1995) in the 2004 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
[17][18] Eric Syddique died aged 84 in January 2020 at home in Eynsford, where he had lived for 60 years.