Theme and Sub-theme Authors by country and affiliation
Theme Reference	Name	Affiliation	Country
1.0 Building on and Accommodating Diversities	Akhtar Majid	Professor, Hamdard University	India
	Jonah Isawa Elaigwu	Director, Institute of Governance and Social Research	Nigeria
	Mahendra Prasad Singh	Professor, Delhi University	India
	Thomas Fleiner	Professor, University of Fribourg	Switzerland
1.1 Nation Building and Diversity	T.K Oomen	Professor, Jawharlal Nehru University	India
1.2 Autonomy and Diversity	Xavier Arbos	Professor, University of Girona	Spain
1.3 Managing Conflicts of Diversity	Richard Simeon	Professor, University of Toronto/Harvard	Canada
2.0 Emerging Issues in Fiscal Federalism	Anwar Shah	Lead Economist, World Bank Institute	IFI
	Fernando Rezende	Director, Getúlio Vargas Foundation	Brazil
	Indira Rajaraman	Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy	India
	M.Govinda Rao	Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy	India
2.1 Assignment System in Federations	Claudius Bamidele Olowu	Principal Governance Adviser, Africa Development Bank	Nigeria
2.2 Resolving Fiscal Conflicts	Paul Bernd Spahn	Professor Emeritus, University of Frankfurt	Germany
2.3 Regional Equity	Renuka Vishwanathan	Secretary, Government of India	India
3.0 Interaction in a federal system	Balveer Arora	Professor, Jawharlal Nehru University	India
	Beryl A.Radin	Professor, American University	United States
	Cheryl Saunders	Professor, University of Melbourbe	Australia
	M.D. Rijhwani	Advocate	India
3.1 Anticipating and handling tension and conflict	Rajeev Dhawan	Director, Public Interest Legal Support and Research Centre	India
3.2 Techniques, structures and processes.	Stefan Hammer	Professor, University of Vienna	Austria
3.3 Accountability and transparency	Bob Ebel	Senior Fellow, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center	United States
4.0 Local Government and Federal Systems	Caroline Andrew	Professor, University of Ottawa	Canada
	Dalbir Singh	Chairman, Dayal Singh College	India
	Horst Risse	Secretary, Joint Commission of Bundestag and Bundesrat	Germany
	Suresh A Keswani	Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities	India
4.1 Empowerment of disadvantaged groups	Nico Styetler	Professor, University of the Western Cape	South Africa
4.2 Functioning of local governments	George Mathew	Director, Institute of Social Sciences	India
4.3 Governance of Megacities in federal orders.	Boris Graizbord	Professor, El Colegio de México	Mexico