The Australia-India Institute (AII) and the University of Melbourne organised a one day Workshop/Roundtable on 'The Future of Electoral Democracy in India and Australia' on August 20, 2019 at India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road. The event was held in collaboration with the Trivedi Centre for Political Data at Ashoka University. Australian and Indian election officials and some of the leading thinkers in this area attended the event. Maj. Gen. Anil Verma (Retd.), Head of ADR and NEW, was invited to speak on 'Transparency and Accountability in Political Funding'. He shared the panel with other speakers such as Prof Joo-Cheong Tham of University of Melbourne and Dr Niranjan Sahoo of Observer Research Foundation (ORF).

ADR was also invited to submit a research paper on the above topic, which has been published online on the Election Watch website of University of Melbourne and can be accessed here.

All research papers submitted by the speakers of the event will also be published as a collection and will be made available at Electoral Regulation Research Network in the coming weeks.