ROLF GERRITSEN Professor and Director, Australian Centre for Regional and Local Government Studies, University of Canberra DAVID HULME Professor of Development Studies, Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester PATRICK KEULEERS Resident Advisor in Lao PDR on the country's Public Administration Project PETER LARMOUR Director of the Development Administration, National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University R.J. MAY Senior Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University LANGSY SIBOUNHEUANG Acting Director, Department of Public Administration in the Office of the Prime Minister of Lao PDR NOORE ALAM SIDDIQUEE Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, International Islamic University Malaysia SAUT SITUMORANG Senior Official, Indonesian Ministry of Home Affairs THAVEEPORN VASAVAKUL WATHANA WONGSEKIARTTIRAT Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Chulalongkorn University.