Editorial Board


The Global Dialogue Editorial Board provides policy and program guidance. Editorial Board members also participate in the program events and the editing process. The Board is composed of experts on federal governance representing the two sponsoring organizations and various global regions. The current members are:

George Anderson – Co-Chair, Forum of Federations  
President and CEO
Forum of Federations

Cheryl Saunders – Co-Chair, IACFS
President, IACFS; Director, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Law School, University of Melbourne

John Kincaid – Senior Editor
Director, Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government, Lafayette College

Rupak Chattopadhyay – Senior Director Global Programs and Head, International Conferences, Forum of Federations

J. Isawa Elaigwu – Nigeria
President, Institute of Governance and Social Research, University of Jos

Thomas Fleiner – Switzerland
Director, Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg

Nico Steytler – South Africa
Director, Community Law Centre, University of Western Cape

Raoul Blindenbacher –  Switzerland
World Bank

Fernando Antonio Rezende da Silva– Brazil
Consultant; Professor, Brazilian School of Public Administration, Fundaçao Getulio Vargas

Horst Risse– Germany
Secretary to the Joint Commission of Bundestag and Bundesrat on the Modernisation of the Federal Order in Germany

David Cameron – Canada
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Ronald L. Watts – Canada
Fellow, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations; Principal and Professor Emeritus, Queen's University

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