Ashna Lazatin is a Senior Manager at the Office for Space Technology & Industry at the Economic Development Board of Singapore. She works in public policy and international relations.
Chan Mo Ku is an analyst focused on co-operation between South Korea and other like-minded partner countries. He previously served as an interpretation officer in the Strategic Planning Directorate of the ROK–US Combined Forces Command and Ground Component Command.
Chan Mo holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS, where he focused on security and statecraft in Asia. His work has appeared in publications such as The Diplomat, War on the Rocks, Breaking Defense, and others.
Kana Bak recently graduated with a master’s degree in international business from Sciences Po Paris. With experience in investment management and sustainability consulting across the EU as well as building business partnerships and research networks in South Korea and Singapore, Kana is dedicated to understanding and influencing diverse markets and geopolitical landscapes. She is particularly fascinated by minilateralism and the interdependencies of foreign capital flows with public policy.
Anastasia Ufimtseva is a Senior Program Manager, International Trade & Investment, at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She holds a PhD in Global Governance from the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University with a specialization in international political economy. Her dissertation examined Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Canadian and Russian oil and natural gas sectors and she has published widely on trade and investment relations between Asia and Canada, specifically on FDI, governance, and energy policy. Prior to joining APF Canada, Anastasia worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business.
Cathy Senay has been CBC's parliamentary correspondent at the National Assembly since 2018. From 2001 to 2018, she was a journalist at Radio-Canada, where she reported extensively on Quebec politics, in-depth reporting, and military affairs in Western Canada and the Quebec City region.
Her work with CBC Quebec earned a RTDNA Canada Best Canadian Local News Award for Radio Newscast (small/medium market) in 2021. Her APF Canada 2024-2025 Media Fellowship focused on innovation in robotics technology in Japan which was covered by Radio-Canada.
Dr. Kati Suominen is Founder and CEO of Nextrade Group and ideates and leads Nextrade Group engagements with the company's more than 50 clients. She has ideated and built dozens of data and analytical products, pilot initiatives, and eight global initiatives and public-private-partnerships to support Nextrade's clients in enabling world trade through technology.
Kati is the author and editor of over 120 papers and 10 peer-reviewed books on trade, globalization and technology and has spoken and keynoted numerous times at such venues as Davos, World Trade Organization, World Trade Symposium, Global Trade Review, ICC Banking Commission, Institute of International Finance, IMF, and World Bank, APEC Senior Officials' Meeting, and commented in such media as Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Time, Politico, BBC, CSPAN, USA Today, and Los Angeles Times.
Danielle Goldfarb is an expert on trade, real-time data, economics, and public policy. She has developed leading-edge research programs and written almost 100 policy papers for Canadian and U.S. think-tanks. Danielle is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and a Fellow at the CSA Public Policy Centre.
As a Research Scholar at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Tae Yeon Eom examines the socio-economic and political issues on and around the Korean Peninsula, exploring how these dynamics influence domestic policies, regional security, and international relations. By integrating these perspectives, his work aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities in East Asia for Canadian and international readers.
David Matijasevich teaches political science at Capilano University in North Vancouver, Canada. His research and teaching interests include populism and protest, regime change and resilience, democratic theory and practice, and the politics of Thailand and Singapore.
Alexandre Veilleux is a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Montreal and graduate in sustainable territorial development from KU Leuven University in Belgium. He is APF Canada's Senior Program Manager, Montreal (Quebec) and his research focuses on the investments of multinationals in the tourism sector in Southeast Asia and their impact on the objectives of sustainable development. He specializes in issues of political economy, global governance and sustainable development.
