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.
Michael Byers is the Co-Director of the Outer Space Institute, a network of world-leading space experts united by their commitment to highly innovative, transdisciplinary research that addresses grand challenges facing the continued use and exploration of space. He is also a Professor of Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Byers has been a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University; Professor of Law at Duke University; and a Visiting Professor at the universities of Cape Town, Tel Aviv, Nord (Norway), Novosibirsk (Russia), St Andrews, and the Geneva Graduate Institute. His two most recent books, both published by Cambridge University Press, are International Law and the Arctic and Who Owns Outer Space?
Kiran Mohan Vazhapully is an international lawyer based in India with a decade of experience in advising governments. He was Erin JC Arsenault Scholar at McGill University, Canada, where he specialized in space law.
Robin J. Frank is an international law and policy expert with 40 years of expertise in areas including human and robotic space exploration, the International Space Station, nonproliferation, export controls, telecommunications, U.S. laws affecting the ability of the U.S. Executive branch to engage in foreign policy and international criminal law and law enforcement. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Outer Space Institute, University of British Columbia and spent two years as Legal Adviser to the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy Panama.
Steven Freeland (PhD, LLM, LLB, BCom) is Emeritus Professor of International Law at Western Sydney University, where he was previously the Dean of the School of Law, and Professorial Fellow at Bond University. He also holds Visiting or Adjunct positions at various other Universities/Institutes in Copenhagen, Vienna, Toulouse, Hong Kong, Montreal, Kuala Lumpur, Vancouver, Mumbai and London.
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.
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.
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.
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.
