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.
Charles Labrecque has worked in various roles at the Foundation since 2013, initially as a Project Manager (2013-2015) and since 2018 as Research Director. Between 2015 and 2017, Charles was Lecturer in International Relations and Canadian Politics at Simon Fraser University. He graduated with a master’s degree in international studies from Université de Montréal in 2008 and a PhD in Political Science from Université Laval in Quebec City in 2016. His research interests cover Canadian foreign policy in Asia, subnational relations, and Canada-China relations with a specific focus on human rights.
Dr. Vlado Vivoda is a scholar and geopolitical analyst specializing in critical minerals, energy security, and geoeconomic strategy. He is an Honorary Fellow at the Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, and Editor-in-Chief of Resources Policy.
His work focuses on critical mineral supply chains, industrial policy, and economic security across the Indo-Pacific.
Dr. Hema Nadarajah is Program Manager, Southeast Asia, with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She has a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of British Columbia where she researched governance in the Arctic, climate change, and Outer Space. Dr. Nadarajah has consulted for WWF and the Department of National Defence. She formerly worked for the Government of Singapore on issues of international biodiversity conservation and climate change.
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.
Song Fu holds a Master's degree in Public Policy and Global Affairs from the University of British Columbia, with a concentration in Asia Pacific.
Song is the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs Program at the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Momo Sakudo is a Consultant, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Networks, 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.
Dr. Ann Fitz-Gerald is the Director of Balsillie School of International Affairs and a Professor of International Security in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has degrees in both commerce and political science from Queen’s University and was the first civilian female to graduate from the Royal Military College of Canada. Before completing a PhD in the U.K., she worked at the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, NATO headquarters, and the North Atlantic Assembly.
Ann has worked at King’s College, London University, and Cranfield University, where, before her move back to Canada, she was Director of Defence and Security Leadership at Cranfield’s Defence Academy (U.K. campus).
Ann is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, and a Fellow at McLaughlin College, York University. She has served and continues to serve on several non-executive boards and in advisory roles for the British government, the United Nations, and the African Union.
Dan Ciuriak is Director and Principal, Ciuriak Consulting Inc. (Ottawa), which provides analytical and policy analysis services related to international trade, finance, industrial policy, and economic development. He also holds fellowships with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (Waterloo), where his research interests are focussed on the nexus between innovation and trade, and quantifying the economic impact of the digital transformation, and with the C.D. Howe Institute (Toronto), where he focuses on Canadian trade policy issues.
An APF Canada Distinguished Fellow, he has published widely as author and editor, including numerous studies on Canada’s trade relations in the Asia Pacific, and comments frequently in the media.
Dr. Ari Van Assche is Full Professor of International Business at HEC Montréal and Co-Director of the International Institute of Economic Diplomacy. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Policy, Fellow-in-Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute, and Director of the Economics Axis at CERIUM’s Chair of Asian and Indo-Pacific Studies. Ari is also a John H. McArthur Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
