GOLD Report I - UCLG

15ACKNOWLEDGMENTSMain authors 1 by chapters:Africa:• Mustapha Ben Letaief, Professor at theUniversity of Tunis 1, Faculty of Law,Director of the Public Law Department,Tunis• Charles Nach Mback, Expert, MunicipalDevelopment Partnership, Benin• Jean-Pierre Elong Mbassi, SecretaryGeneral, UCLGA• Biram Owens Ndiaye, Director, MunicipalDevelopment Partnership, BeninAsia-Pacific:• Andrew Nickson, Lecturer, School ofPublic Policy, University of Birmingham,United Kingdom• Alex B. Brillantes, Professor and Deanof the University of the Philippines, EasternRegional Organization for PublicAdministration (EROPA), Philippines• Wilhelmina L. Cabo, EROPA, Professorat the University of the Philippines• Alice Celestino, EROPA, University ofthe Philippines• Nick Devas, Lecturer, School of PublicPolicy, Director of the InternationalDevelopment Department, Universityof Birmingham, United KingdomEurasia:• L.V.Andrichenko, PhD, Institute ofLegislation and Comparative Law of theGovernment of the Russian Federation• Talia Ia. Khabrieva, Professor, Directorof the Institute of Legislation and ComparativeLaw of the Government of theRussian Federation, Team leader• V.I.Lafitsky, Professor at the Institute ofLegislation and Comparative Law of theGovernment of the Russian Federation• A.V. Pavlushkin, PhD, Institute of Legislationand Comparative Law of theGovernment of the Russian Federation• A.E.Postnikov, Professor at the Instituteof Legislation and Comparative Law ofthe Government of the Russian Federation• N.V.Putilo, PhD, Institute of Legislationand Comparative Law of the Governmentof the Russian Federation• Y.A.Tikhomirov, Professor and Vice-Director of the Institute of Legislationand Comparative Law of the Governmentof the Russian Federation• V.A.Vasiliev, Professor at the Institute ofLegislation and Comparative Law of theGovernment of the Russian FederationEurope :• Gérard Marcou, Professor at the UniversityParis 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Directorof GRALE, France• Hellmut Wollmann, Professor emeritusat the Humboldt-Universitaet Berlin,GermanyLatin America :• Mario Rosales, Director of Studies, Associationof Municipalities of Chile• Salvador Valencia Carmona, Professor atthe Nacional Autonomous University ofMexico (UNAM), Director of the Center ofLegal Research, MexicoMiddle East & West Asia:• Mustapha Adib, Professor at the LebaneseUniversity and at the French-LebaneseUniversity Center of Technology,Director of the Center for StrategicStudies in the Middle East (CESMO),Lebanon1. Alphabetic list. If aperson is quotedseveral times, titlesand functions arementioned only withthe first quotation.