Auteurs

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. 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.

Tuvshinzaya Gantulga a principal adviser at Rio Tinto Mongolia and an APF Canada Indo-Pacific Research Fellow. Previously, he served as the foreign policy aide to the President of Mongolia and the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Mongolia. 

As part of his reserve officer duties in the Mongolian Armed Forces, Tuvshinzaya was deployed to Afghanistan as a member of the Mongolian contingent that served with NATO troops. 

Tuvshinzaya holds an MPA from the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University in the City of New York, where he served as an online editor of the Journal of International Affairs. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs and The Diplomat. 

He is also a Millennium Leadership Fellow at the Atlantic Council.

Peter Handley is the founder of PHASE32, a consultancy specializing in sustainability and resilience. He is also a senior fellow with the European Initiative for Energy Security and a strategic advisor with The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies. 

As head of unit and deputy director in the European Commission’s Directorate General for the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Peter and his team negotiated the 2021 EU-Canada Strategic Partnership on Critical Raw Materials as well as the 2024 Critical Raw Materials Act.

Tae Yeon Eom is the Project Manager of the "Where Technology Meets Security: A Canada–South Korea Policy Brief Series," funded by a Korea Foundation Policy-Oriented Research Related to Korea grant. He is a former Research Scholar with APF Canada’s Northeast Asia team.

Tae Yeon’s work sits at the intersection of technology and security policy, covering AI, quantum, cybersecurity, and space, with a geopolitical focus on Canada, Japan, and South Korea. He connects government, academia, and industry to advance Canada's technology and security co-operation across the Indo-Pacific.

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.

Tanya Dawar is a Research Scholar with the South Asia Team at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She holds a Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs from the University of British Columbia, a Master’s in Economics from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, and a B.Sc. in Mathematics (Honours) from the University of Delhi. 

Tanya's research interests include international trade, environmental issues, and global politics.

Dr. Nanae Baldauff is the inaugural Japan-focused Indo-Pacific Research Fellow at APF Canada and a Senior (Non-Resident) Associate Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Italy and is currently serving as an academic mentor at the College. She is also Associate Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) in Belgium, as well as Senior Researcher at Keio Research Institute at SFC, Japan.

She is the author of a monograph Japan’s Defense Engagement in the Indo-Pacific: Deterrence, Strategic Partnership, and Stable Order Building (Springer, 2024). She has published peer-reviewed articles, numerous research papers, and policy briefs, on topics covering space security, defence technology co-operation, and the defence industry. She has given lectures at numerous universities including courses at the NATO Defense College. 

Nanae obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science (Ghent University, Belgium) in 2022. She is a recipient of the Japan Foundation fellowship (2021). Nanae was Research Fellow at the NATO Defense College (2024) as the first Japanese national to be awarded this position. Additionally, she serves on the board of International Security Industry Council Japan. 

Her main research and interests include Japan’s defence policy, the Indo-Pacific security and strategic environment, Japan-Europe defence co-operation (NATO, EU, and individual countries), space security, and defence innovation and industry.