Joyce Lee is a Women’s Entrepreneurship Strategy intern at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, with support from the Taiwan Global Pathfinders Initiative.
Michael Petric is a defence and security professional with more than 15 years of experience spanning consulting, government, and military service. He is the Founder and Managing Director at PerceptX, a Canadian-owned advisory firm focused on aerospace and defence markets and a Senior Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
Currently based in Singapore, Michael is dedicated to helping governments accelerate defence capability delivery and adopt emerging technologies.
Barrett Bingley is Asia Regional Director for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, based in Singapore. His research interests include international trade, geoeconomics, and strategic studies. He was previously Senior Policy Advisor to Canada's Foreign and Trade Ministers and Head of Growth Partnerships for the Asia-Pacific at The Economist.
Tsung-Han (Hank) Tsai is a Research Intern at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He holds an MSc in International and Social Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Bachelor of Social Work with a minor in Political Science from National Taiwan University.
Elizabeth Donkervoort is the Senior Advisor, China Programs for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She holds a JD and a Master of Asia Pacific Policy Studies from the University of British Columbia and specializes in legal and institutional policy analysis of governance, security, and regulatory frameworks, with attention to rights-protective safeguards, emerging technologies, and real-world governance implications in People's Republic of China-related and comparative contexts.
Zélie Schwar is a research intern with APF Canada and a master's student in political science at the Université de Montréal, where she completed a bachelor's degree in political science and Asian studies. Her work and research interests focus primarily on relations between China and Southeast Asia, with a particular interest in subnational dynamics, hydroelectric infrastructure, water resource management, and environmental issues.
Zélie has presented her research at the CÉRIUM's annual conference on Indo-Pacific strategies and at a conference organized by the Chaire de recherche en études indo-pacifiques at Université Laval. Her research has also been published in the journal of the Observatoire des droits de la personne (Human Rights Observatory).
Dr. Alexandre Veilleux is Senior Program Manager at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, where he leads the Montreal office’s programming and activities. He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal and in the Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Université de Montréal, a Master’s degree in Economics from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a joint MSc in Sustainable Territorial Development from KU Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Padova (Italy).
His research focuses on the political economy of development, with a particular emphasis on tourism development in Southeast Asia, and the foreign policy of Canada and Quebec in the Indo-Pacific.
Michael Byers is the Co-Director of the Outer Space Institute, a network of world-leading space experts united by their commitment to highly innovative, transdisciplinary research that addresses grand challenges facing the continued use and exploration of space. He is also a Professor of Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Byers has been a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University; Professor of Law at Duke University; and a Visiting Professor at the universities of Cape Town, Tel Aviv, Nord (Norway), Novosibirsk (Russia), St Andrews, and the Geneva Graduate Institute. His two most recent books, both published by Cambridge University Press, are International Law and the Arctic and Who Owns Outer Space?
