Don McLain Gill is a Philippines-based geopolitical analyst, author, and lecturer at the Department of International Studies, De La Salle University, Manila.
Don is also an APF Canada Indo Pacific Research Fellow.
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.
Dr. Stephen Nagy is originally from Calgary, Alberta. He received his PhD in International Relations/Studies from Waseda University in 2008. His main affiliation is professor at the International Christian University, Tokyo.
Stephen is also a Senior Fellow (non-resident) with APF Canada, a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI), a visiting fellow with the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA), a senior fellow at the MacDonald Laurier Institute (MLI), and a senior fellow with the East Asia Security Centre (EASC). He also serves as the Director of Policy Studies for the Yokosuka Council of Asia Pacific Studies (YCAPS), spearheading the Council’s Indo-Pacific Policy Dialogue series.
Saanvi Bhambhani is an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia pursuing a major in Political Science and a minor in International Relations. At the Asia Pacific Foundation, she assisted the South Asia Team with research on upcoming trade-related developments in relationships between India, the U.S., and Canada, and in monitoring the political climate in Bangladesh.
Her academic and research interests lie in international law, global security and diplomacy, and cross-cultural dialogue.
Erin is Director, Programs, at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, where she oversees programs related to Asia competencies and education and spearheads the Foundation’s Canada-Asia Young Professionals Development program.
Prior to joining APF Canada, Erin supported the Canadian Member Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), a regional Track II security dialogue. In that role, she assisted with two Canada co-chaired study groups: one on regional peacekeeping and peace-building, and another on the responsibility to protect (R2P). She also was Associate Editor (with Brian Job) of CSCAP’s annual flagship publication, The CSCAP Regional Security Outlook. Erin has worked as an Editorial Assistant at Pacific Affairs and in the field of immigrant and refugee education in Minnesota and California.
Erin has a master’s degree in Asia Pacific Policy Studies from the University of British Columbia and a master’s degree in International Relations from Boston University.
Suyesha Dutta is a Research Scholar with the Asia Pacific Foundation’s South Asia Team. She holds an MSc in Modern South Asian Studies from the University of Oxford and a B.A. from the University of British Columbia, with a double major in History and Modern European Studies. Her research interests concern state-sponsored violence and political mobilization in postcolonial India.
Dr. Emile Dirks is a Senior Research Associate at The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, where he explores Chinese politics and digital authoritarianism. His work on biometric surveillance in China has been covered by The New York Times and The Economist, among other publications, and he is the co-author of a forthcoming book on how China governs its diaspora.
Dr. Dirks has has testified twice before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and was previously a Futures Fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies and a Research Associate at the London School of Economics.
Dr. Diana Fu is an Associate Professor at The University of Toronto in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Political Science. She is a John H. McArthur Research Fellow with APF Canada, non-resident fellow at Brookings Institution, a China fellow at the Wilson Center, and a public intellectuals fellow at the National Committee on US-China Relations.
Fu’s research examines civil society, popular contention, state control, and authoritarian citizenship in China. She is the author of the award-winning book Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China. Her current research examines how China’s party-state governs the global diaspora abroad, forthcoming in a co-authored book with Cambridge University Press.
Amanda Doyle is a Senior Program Manager at the Asia Pacific Foundation where she oversees the Foundation's APEC Networks. She has a master’s degree in Public Policy and Global Affairs from the University of British Columbia, where she specialized in global governance and security in the Asia Pacific.
Prior to joining APF Canada, Amanda served as a senior political advisor across various levels of government and in the private sector.
Momo Sakudo is the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Networks Officer with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She holds a Master of Public Policy from the School of Public Affairs at Sciences Po Paris and a dual Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia and Sciences Po Paris. As a Japanese national living in Canada, Momo is interested in exploring Asia's growing role in the international community.
