The Forum of Federations Handbook of Federal Countries 2020

Ann Griffiths is a Research Fellow with the Centre for the Study of Security and Development and teaches part-time in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University, Canada. Her research and teaching interests include security and defence, human rights, peacebuilding, democratization and federalism. Rupak Chattopadhyay is the CEO and President of the Forum of Federations in Canada. He did his doctoral work in Political Science at the University of Toronto, and his edited/co-edited collections include Dialogues on Diversity and Unity in Federal Countries (2009), Finance and Governance of Capital Cities in Federal System (2009) and Governance and Finance of Metropolitan Area in Federal Countries (2013). John Light is the senior director of communications and publications at the Forum of Federations in Canada. He spent over a decade working at the Canadian Parliament and holds a BA in marketing and expertise in communications.  Carl Stieren is a writer and editor based in Ottawa, Canada. He has worked for the Forum of Federations for eight years as a writer and editor, and also serves as the Associate Editor of Federations magazine.