Dr. Jeehye Kim is the Senior Program Manager of Northeast Asia at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, overseeing the research program related to Japan, Mongolia, North and South Korea, and Taiwan.
Seyyed Milad Shirvani is a postdoctoral researcher in international business and global strategy at HEC Montréal and Simon Fraser University. He holds a PhD in Management from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research examines how the twin transformations of the global economy—sensitive technologies and geopolitical fragmentation—are reshaping the strategies of countries and multinational enterprises.
Seyyed also conducts related work on the geography of innovation, the structure of global value chains, and international public and private procurement. His work has been presented at Global Affairs Canada, the International Economic Forum of the Americas, and other international policy and research institutions.
Seungjoo Lee is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Chung-Ang University (Seoul, Korea), Chair of the Trade, Technology, and Transformation Research Center at the East Asia Institute, and Senior Research Affiliate at the Berkeley APEC Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley.
Lee is a member of the Advisory Committee on Economic Security and Foreign Affairs (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Korea) and a member of the Policy Advisory Board of the Ministry of National Defense. His current research focuses on the economy-security nexus, economic statecraft, the U.S.-China technology competition, and global digital governance. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Sasha Lee is a former Post Graduate Research Scholar with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada’s Southeast Asia team. She completed her Master's in Political Science from the University of British Columbia and earned her bachelor's from Korea University double majoring in Political Science and Media Communications. Her work includes research into renewable technologies and environmental governance of developing nations.
Prof. Wolfgang Alschner is a Full Professor at the Common Law Section of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, where he holds the Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law. Professor Alschner is an empirical legal scholar specialized in international economic law and trade governance.
Xuemeng Wang is a Research Scholar with the International Trade and Investment team at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She completed her Master’s in International Studies from Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on socio-economic development, tackling associated challenges, and promoting social equality and sustainable development practices.
Hyun Kim is a Research Scholar at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, funded by the Korea Foundation’s Global Challengers Program. Hyun holds an MA in Political Science with a focus on International Security from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
Mei Terasawa is a Project Co-ordinator at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, assisting the Foundation’s Canada-Asia Young Professionals Development Program and the Indo-Pacific Young Leaders Program. Mei has a BA in International Relations from the University of British Columbia.
Steve Zhu is a Research Scholar with the China team at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. His research interests centre on U.S.-China competition, Canadian foreign and defence policy, and European foreign affairs. He holds an MA in International Affairs from the Hertie School in Berlin, and a BA in Political Science and History from the University of Toronto.
