Dr. Tricia Yeoh is Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Nottingham Malaysia’s School of Politics and International Relations and Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
Michael Kugelman is a Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He also writes Foreign Policy magazine’s South Asia Brief, a weekly newsletter with news and analysis on the region. He is a longtime analyst of South Asia.
Yves Tiberghien is a Professor of Political Science, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Asian Research, and Co-Director of the Center for Japanese Research at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
He was a visiting professor at the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science (September 2023 to June 2024) and is a Distinguished Fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Chair of Vision20, and Senior Fellow, Global Summitry Project, Munk School, University of Toronto.
Patrick Leblond is CN-Paul M. Tellier Chair on Business and Public Policy and Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is also Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Research Fellow at CIRANO, and Affiliated Professor of International Business at HEC Montréal.
Dr. Leblond is an expert on economic governance and policy. He has published extensively on banking regulation, financial and monetary integration, international investment, international trade, and business-government relations. Before embarking on his academic career, he worked in accounting and auditing for Ernst & Young as well as in corporate finance and strategy consulting for Arthur Andersen & Co. and SECOR Consulting in Montreal.
Karthik Nachiappan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (Ottawa). His research focuses on India's geoeconomics, how issues like trade, technology, and climate change affect Indian foreign policy and how India's positions on these issues shape Indo-Pacific security dynamics. He is the author of Does India Negotiate? (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Saanvi Bhambhani is an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia pursuing a major in Political Science and a minor in International Relations. At the Asia Pacific Foundation, she assisted the South Asia Team with research on upcoming trade-related developments in relationships between India, the U.S., and Canada, and in monitoring the political climate in Bangladesh.
Her academic and research interests lie in international law, global security and diplomacy, and cross-cultural dialogue.
Suyesha Dutta is a Research Scholar with the Asia Pacific Foundation’s South Asia Team. She holds an MSc in Modern South Asian Studies from the University of Oxford and a B.A. from the University of British Columbia, with a double major in History and Modern European Studies. Her research interests concern state-sponsored violence and political mobilization in postcolonial India.
Dr. Diana Fu is an Associate Professor at The University of Toronto in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Political Science. She is a John H. McArthur Research Fellow with APF Canada, non-resident fellow at Brookings Institution, a China fellow at the Wilson Center, and a public intellectuals fellow at the National Committee on US-China Relations.
Fu’s research examines civil society, popular contention, state control, and authoritarian citizenship in China. She is the author of the award-winning book Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China. Her current research examines how China’s party-state governs the global diaspora abroad, forthcoming in a co-authored book with Cambridge University Press.
Dr. Emile Dirks is a Senior Research Associate at The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, where he explores Chinese politics and digital authoritarianism. His work on biometric surveillance in China has been covered by The New York Times and The Economist, among other publications, and he is the co-author of a forthcoming book on how China governs its diaspora.
Dr. Dirks has has testified twice before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and was previously a Futures Fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies and a Research Associate at the London School of Economics.
Dr. Deborah Elms is Head of Trade Policy at the Hinrich Foundation in Singapore. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was the Executive Director and Founder of the Asian Trade Centre (ATC). She was also President of the Asia Business Trade Association (ABTA) and the Board Director of the Asian Trade Centre Foundation (ATCF).
Dr. Elms serves on the board of the Trade and Investment Negotiation Adviser (TINA) at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific (UNESCAP). She was on the International Advisory Council for APCO (2021-2023) and was a member of the International Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Trade Professionals Alliance and Chair of the Working Group on Trade Policy and Law. She was also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Trade and Investment Council for 2018-2020.
