Purshottama Sivanarain Reddy is Senior Professor and Subnational Governance Specialist at the University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. He is the editor/co-editor of thirteen books on subnational government and currently serves on the editorial/advisory committee of seven journals world-wide. He is currently the Vice–President of Programmes of IASIA and Chairperson of the Programme and Research Committee of IIAS. Juraj Nemec is Professor at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and at the Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. He has published almost 500 scientific publications. He served as the President of the NISPAcee and currently serves as the Vice-President of IASIA and as the member of the CEPA UN.