Authors

Jarine Kim is Director of Research at the Canada Korea Business Council. She holds a Master of Global Affairs from the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Canada-Korea relations, defence-industrial co-operation, and Indo-Pacific security. 

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.