Authors

Dan Ciuriak is Director and Principal, Ciuriak Consulting Inc. (Ottawa), which provides analytical and policy analysis services related to international trade, finance, industrial policy, and economic development. He also holds fellowships with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (Waterloo), where his research interests are focussed on the nexus between innovation and trade, and quantifying the economic impact of the digital transformation, and with the C.D. Howe Institute (Toronto), where he focuses on Canadian trade policy issues. 

An APF Canada Distinguished Fellow, he has published widely as author and editor, including numerous studies on Canada’s trade relations in the Asia Pacific, and comments frequently in the media.

Pitman B. Potter is Professor Emeritus in Law, University of British Columbia; Distinguished Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada; and, a Member of the Order of Canada.

Robert Williams is a Kitchener, Ontario-based journalist and feature writer for the Waterloo Region Record. As part of The Record’s investigations unit, he has worked on long-term projects on Conestoga College’s international student enrolment, Ontario’s public education achievement outcomes, and the Government of Ontario’s COVID-19 pandemic response. 

Robert is a winner of the Goff Penny Award and Atlantic Journalism Award for feature writing, and his work has appeared in publications across Canada, including the Toronto Star, iPolitics, and the Telegraph-Journal.

Dr. Sanjay Ruparelia is an Associate Professor of Politics and the inaugural Jarislowsky Democracy Chair at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the author of Divided We Govern: Coalition Politics in Modern India, editor of The Indian Ideology, and co-editor of Understanding India’s New Political Economy: A Great Transformation? 

Sanjay serves as co-chair of Participedia, an international network that studies democratic innovations, and co-hosts On the Frontlines of Democracy, a monthly podcast and lecture series with TMU School of Journalism and the Toronto Public Library, respectively. He regularly contributes essays and commentary to prominent media outlets in Canada and abroad.

His current research analyzes democratic backsliding, the contentious transformations of India and China over the last decade, and the evolution of rights, welfare, and constitutionalism in the global South.

Woojoo Hong is a Research Scholar at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, funded by the Korea Foundation’s Global Challengers Program. Woojoo holds a master’s in international studies, focusing on International Development and Cooperation, from Korea University.

Sun Ryung Park is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of British Columbia. She is also the recipient of the 2023 Pacific Trade and Development Fellowship for Young Scholars and the 2024 Taiwan Fellowship by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan. She served as Liu Scholar (2021-2022) at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and an Institute of Asian Research Fellow (2021-2023) at the Centre for Korean Studies, IAR, UBC.

Her research focuses on green transition and energy security in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan in the U.S.-China rivalry context. Her scholarly endeavours involve a comparative analysis of the resurgence of state intervention and the revitalization of traditional and innovative tools of industrial policy, driven by the intense competition among states in the green technology race.

Sun obtained her MA and BA in Political Science and International Relations from Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. Prior to her Ph.D. program at UBC, she worked at the East Asia Institute in Seoul and completed an internship at the Korea Society in New York. 

Yves Tiberghien is a Professor of Political Science, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Asian Research, and Co-Director of the Center for Japanese Research at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. 

He was a visiting professor at the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science (September 2023 to June 2024) and is a Distinguished Fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Chair of Vision20, and Senior Fellow, Global Summitry Project, Munk School, University of Toronto.

Hugh Stephens has more than 35 years of government and business experience in the Asia Pacific region. He is currently Vice-Chair of the Canadian Committee on Pacific Economic Cooperation (CANCPEC), Executive Fellow at the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, Principal of TransPacific Connections, and a Distinguished Fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. In addition, he teaches in the MBA program at Royal Roads University as an Associate Faculty member.

Before returning to Canada in December 2009, Hugh was Senior Vice President (Public Policy) for Asia Pacific for Time Warner for almost a decade, located at the company’s regional headquarters in Hong Kong.

Shruti Jhunjhunwala is a Research Scholar with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada’s International Trade and Investment Team. She holds an MSc in International Business from HEC Montreal. Her research interests include private-public partnerships as well as inclusive and sustainable trade.