Authors

Xuemeng Wang is a Research Scholar with the International Trade and Investment team at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She completed her Master’s in International Studies from Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on socio-economic development, tackling associated challenges, and promoting social equality and sustainable development practices.

Hyun Kim is a Research Scholar at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, funded by the Korea Foundation’s Global Challengers Program. Hyun holds an MA in Political Science with a focus on International Security from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

Mei Terasawa is a Project Co-ordinator at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, assisting the Foundation’s Canada-Asia Young Professionals Development Program and the Indo-Pacific Young Leaders Program. Mei has a BA in International Relations from the University of British Columbia.

Steve Zhu is a Research Scholar with the China team at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. His research interests centre on U.S.-China competition, Canadian foreign and defence policy, and European foreign affairs. He holds an MA in International Affairs from the Hertie School in Berlin, and a BA in Political Science and History from the University of Toronto.

Bart Édes is a policy analyst, commentator, and author of Learning From Tomorrow: Using Strategic Foresight to Prepare for the Next Big Disruption (2021). An APF Canada Distinguished Fellow, he focuses on developing Asian economies, international development, cross-border trade and investment, innovation, social policies, and transformative trends reshaping the world.

Tuvshinzaya Gantulga a principal adviser at Rio Tinto Mongolia. 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.

Ashna Lazatin is a Senior Manager at the Office for Space Technology & Industry at the Economic Development Board of Singapore. She works in public policy and international relations.

Robin J. Frank is an international law and policy expert with 40 years of expertise in areas including human and robotic space exploration, the International Space Station, nonproliferation, export controls, telecommunications, U.S. laws affecting the ability of the U.S. Executive branch to engage in foreign policy and international criminal law and law enforcement. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Outer Space Institute, University of British Columbia and spent two years as Legal Adviser to the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy Panama.

Kiran Mohan Vazhapully is an international lawyer based in India with a decade of experience in advising governments. He was Erin JC Arsenault Scholar at McGill University, Canada, where he specialized in space law.