Julia G. Bentley
Julia G. Bentley is currently a Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, an External Research Associate of the York Centre for Asian Research, a Non-Resident Fellow at National Taiwan University`s Centre for China Studies, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Malaysia. Julia is also a Distinguished Fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
She served in the Canadian foreign service with distinction for 32 years, occupying several senior executive positions at Global Affairs Canada related to Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.
Julia has also represented Canada as a diplomat abroad. She served as Canada’s High Commissioner in Malaysia (2017-2020) and previously at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing (twice), the Canadian High Commission in Delhi, and the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei.
Combined with other roles including as a teacher, development consultant, and head of an international organization, she spent 22 years working in Asia.
