ELLIOT BULMER graduated with an ma in Arabic and Politics from the University of Edinburgh. He was commissioned as a Logistics Officer in the Royal Navy, where he saw service in Iraq as part of a psyops unit. After leaving the Navy, he completed a phd in Politics at the University of Glasgow while serving as Research Director of the Constitutional Commission, a Scottish charitable organisation for constitutional education and research. He now works for the Constitution Building Programme of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance in The Hague, Netherlands. He is the author of A Model Constitution for Scotland: Making Democracy Work in an Independent State (Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2011) and several articles in peer-reviewed academic journal articles on constitutional subjects, as well as being a frequent contributor to Scotland's constitutional debate in the print and online media.