The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada is pleased to announce our four John H. McArthur Research Fellowship recipients for 2026-2027: Wolfgang Alschner, Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law at the University of Ottawa; Dr. Arash Habibi Lashkari, Full Professor and Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity at York University; Jonathan Berkshire Miller, Co-Founder & Principal, Pendulum Geopolitical Advisory; and Stephen Noakes, Associate Professor and Major & Specialization Leader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
All four fellows, in response to the shifting global order and Canada’s evolving strategic priorities, will explore the intersection of Canada-U.S. relations and Indo-Pacific engagement. Their work – on supply chain resilience, digital trade norms, critical minerals, and Canada’s evolving relationships with the U.S. and major powers in the Indo-Pacific – will inform Canadian policymakers and the public through published research, briefings to key stakeholders in government and the private sector, and an annual high-profile public symposium to be held in Canada.
In honour of John H. McArthur, a long-time Canadian dean at Harvard Business School and former APF Canada Board Chair, the John H. McArthur Research Fellowship was launched in 2021 to support exceptional scholars working on programs and research areas with direct relevance to Canada and Canada’s interests in Asia.
The 2026-2027 Research Fellows are:
Wolfgang Alschner is a Full Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, where he holds the Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law.
Wolfgang is an expert in trade law and policy, international investment law and arbitration, and the empirical and computational analysis of law. He co-leads a project on Canada's Critical Minerals Diplomacy.
Wolfgang serves as co-editor of the World Trade Review and sits on the board of the Journal of International Economic Law. Wolfgang is also McMillan LLP’s Academic-in-Residence, advising on trade remedies and international trade matters.
He actively comments on current events, including through op-eds in The Globe and Mail, and publishes a bi-weekly Substack, "Economic Security 101," tracking Canada's evolving trade and investment policy.
Wolfgang holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and a Master of Laws from Stanford Law School.
Dr. Arash Habibi Lashkari is a Full Professor and Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity at York University.
He is the founder and director of the Behaviour-Centric Cybersecurity Center and co-founder of the Cybersecurity Cartoon Award.
A Senior Member of IEEE, he also serves on the editorial boards of Computers & Security (Elsevier), Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio), and Computational Intelligence (Wiley).
With 29 years of academic and industrial experience, he has authored 12 books and more than 110 scholarly publications.
His research focuses on behaviour-centric cybersecurity, AI-driven threat detection, network and encrypted traffic analysis, malware analysis, IoT and cyber-physical system security, blockchain and DeFi security, cybersecurity dataset generation, and trustworthy AI.
His current research aims to establish the scientific foundations of trustworthy, resilient, and secure AI for cybersecurity, enabling the next generation of Frontier AI systems that are reliable, explainable, adaptive, and operationally accountable in protecting critical digital infrastructure.
Jonathan Berkshire Miller is an internationally recognized expert in security, defence, and geoeconomics, advising governments, multinational corporations, and international organizations on geopolitical issues and strategic decision-making.
For nearly two decades, he has held senior roles across the private and public sectors, shaping policy and strategy on global economic and security challenges. Jonathan has worked in senior executive roles at leading think-tanks in Canada, the U.S., and Japan, contributing to high-level policy discussions on geopolitical and leading strategic dialogues. He has also served in the Canadian government, specializing in economic and security policy.
Jonathan is a frequent keynote speaker for business, government, and other stakeholders on geostrategic issues. A prolific writer and commentator, he contributes analysis to leading publications such as the Financial Times, The New York Times, CNN, Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal and many others.
Stephen Noakes is Associate Professor and Major & Specialization Leader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
A specialist in Chinese politics and foreign policy, his research examines the global dimensions of domestic institutional change, with a particular focus on the Indo-Pacific region.
His articles have appeared in China Quarterly, The Pacific Review, Voluntas, Political Science Quarterly, Pacific Affairs, and elsewhere.
Among his books are Democratization: A Thematic Approach (Bloomsbury, 2023), Asia-Pacific Small States: Political Economies of Resilience (with Alexander C. Tan, Eds.) (Lynne Rienner, 2023), and The Advocacy Trap: Transnational Activism and State Power in China (Manchester UP, 2017).
Stephen was Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Auckland from 2021–25 and a MOFA Taiwan Fellow in 2019. He previously held Fellowships at Peking University, Fudan University, and the University of Toronto, and is a regular commentator on global China in international print and broadcast media.
About the Fellowship:
The John H. McArthur Fellowship initiative and fund, which supports the Research Fellowship program, was established by APF Canada to honour Dr. McArthur, who died in 2019. He was a native of Burnaby, British Columbia, an Officer of the Order of Canada, and Dean Emeritus at Harvard Business School.
For more information about this research fellowship program, please email info@asiapacific.ca
