Dr. Sun Ryung Park is a Senior Research Specialist, Northeast Asia, at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She is interested in green transition, energy security, and digital transformation in the Asia Pacific region.
Vina is APF Canada's Vice-President Research & Strategy and leads the Foundation’s research, education, and network support activities. She also oversees the Foundation’s granting and research fellowships programs as well as development and capacity building projects. She is a frequent media commentator on geopolitics, Canadian foreign policy, and Canada-Asia relations, with a focus on India and China.
As an international security and peacebuilding specialist, Vina has more than two decades of professional experience in high-level diplomacy, advocacy, policy-making, and political risk analysis. From war zones to board rooms, Vina has worked with national governments, non-profits, and philanthropic organizations in Canada, the United States, China, and a number of countries in Africa and Central Asia.
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.
Irene Chan is a Singapore-based researcher specializing in Chinese foreign policy, Southeast Asian geopolitics, and regional security, with over a decade of experience in research and policy engagement. She serves as Senior Research Program Manager at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, where she leads high-level regional dialogues and strategic initiatives. Irene holds an MSc in Asian Studies and a BA in History with a Diploma in Education from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Daisy Xiong is a bilingual (English/Mandarin) journalist based in Vancouver, specializing in business and cross-cultural reporting. She is a staff reporter at Business in Vancouver, British Columbia’s leading business publication, where she covers international trade, energy, and technology.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, CBC, Vice Media and Richmond News, among others. Daisy is a bronze recipient of the Ma Murray Community Newspaper Awards in Business Writing and a CBC John Donaldson News Scholar.
Karen Hui is a Project Co-ordinator with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. With a master's degree in sociology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she specializes in policy and academic research related to social development from critical perspectives, especially labour, social movements, public health, and supply chain.
Michael Petric is a defence and security professional with more than 15 years of experience spanning consulting, government, and military service. He is the Founder and Managing Director at PerceptX, a Canadian-owned advisory firm focused on aerospace and defence markets and a Senior Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
Currently based in Singapore, Michael is dedicated to helping governments accelerate defence capability delivery and adopt emerging technologies.
Barrett Bingley is Asia Regional Director for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, based in Singapore. His research interests include international trade, geoeconomics, and strategic studies. He was previously Senior Policy Advisor to Canada's Foreign and Trade Ministers and Head of Growth Partnerships for the Asia-Pacific at The Economist.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Laura-Julie Perreault worked for the daily newspaper Le Soleil, CNN's Moscow bureau, and Gemini News Service's London office before joining La Presse in 2002. She has been an international affairs columnist since September 2021.
Previously, she served as an editorial writer and covered international politics for 12 years, filing major reports from more than 40 countries. Her foreign reporting has earned her several awards, including from Canada's National Newspaper Awards. From 2013 to 2014, she was a Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She cofounded the Québec International Journalism Fund and cohosts the podcast Sans escale. For seven years, she taught international journalism at the Université de Montréal.
Elizabeth Donkervoort is the Senior Advisor, China Programs for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She holds a JD and a Master of Asia Pacific Policy Studies from the University of British Columbia and specializes in legal and institutional policy analysis of governance, security, and regulatory frameworks, with attention to rights-protective safeguards, emerging technologies, and real-world governance implications in People's Republic of China-related and comparative contexts.
