Stephen P Osborne is Professor of International Public Management in the University of Edinburgh Business School, Scotland. He has worked as an academic for over twenty years and before that had fifteen years experience as a public service professional and manager. Professor Osborne's work over the past twenty years has focused upon three areas - the management of voluntary and non-profit organisations, innovation in public services, and public services reform. He is Director of the Centre for Public services Research in the Business School and Dean for Quality Assurance in the College of Humanities and Social sciences at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively in academic journals over his career and edits the journal Public Management Review. He was the founding president of the International Research Society for Public Management. In the past he has been chair of the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management, a member of the Executive Board of the Public Management Research Association, and a member of the Steering Group for the Third Sector Special Interest Group of the European Group for Public Administration.

Richard M. Walker is Professor of Public Management and PoliRichard M. Walker is Professor of Public Management and Policy at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Research Associcy at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Research Associate at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. ate at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.

Stephen Osborne is the publisher of Geist, an award-winning cultural magazine in Canada, and the co-founder of Arsenal Pulp Press.

Louise Brown is an academic at Birmingham University, England, and the author of several books on Asia. She frequently returns to Lahore, Pakistan.