Appointment to the Board of Directors of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

Maxime Bernier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced the appointment of Robert Bedeski to the Board of Directors of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Robert E. Bedeski is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at UVic, and Program Professor Emeritus for Human Security and Peace in the Asia-Pacific Region at the University’s Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives. Prof. Bedeski received both his MA in Asian Studies and his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the first non-Japanese research fellow at the National Institute for Defence Studies in Tokyo in 1980-81.