Dr. Sun Ryung Park is a Senior Research Specialist, Northeast Asia, at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She is interested in green transition, energy security, and digital transformation in the Asia Pacific region.
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.
Irene Chan is a Singapore-based researcher specializing in Chinese foreign policy, Southeast Asian geopolitics, and regional security, with over a decade of experience in research and policy engagement. She serves as Senior Research Program Manager at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, where she leads high-level regional dialogues and strategic initiatives. Irene holds an MSc in Asian Studies and a BA in History with a Diploma in Education from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Daisy Xiong is a bilingual (English/Mandarin) journalist based in Vancouver, specializing in business and cross-cultural reporting. She is a staff reporter at Business in Vancouver, British Columbia’s leading business publication, where she covers international trade, energy, and technology.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, CBC, Vice Media and Richmond News, among others. Daisy is a bronze recipient of the Ma Murray Community Newspaper Awards in Business Writing and a CBC John Donaldson News Scholar.
Karen Hui is a Project Co-ordinator with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. With a master's degree in sociology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she specializes in policy and academic research related to social development from critical perspectives, especially labour, social movements, public health, and supply chain.
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.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Laura-Julie Perreault worked for the daily newspaper Le Soleil, CNN's Moscow bureau, and Gemini News Service's London office before joining La Presse in 2002. She has been an international affairs columnist since September 2021.
Previously, she served as an editorial writer and covered international politics for 12 years, filing major reports from more than 40 countries. Her foreign reporting has earned her several awards, including from Canada's National Newspaper Awards. From 2013 to 2014, she was a Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She cofounded the Québec International Journalism Fund and cohosts the podcast Sans escale. For seven years, she taught international journalism at the Université de Montréal.
Danielle Goldfarb is an expert on trade, real-time data, economics, and public policy. She is a McArthur Research Fellow and a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and a Fellow at the CSA Public Policy Centre. She has developed leading-edge research programs and written almost 100 policy papers for Canadian and U.S. think-tanks.
Xiaoyi (Yee) Ze is APF Canada's Program Manager, APEC-Canada Growing Business Partnership. She holds a PhD in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver and was most recently the Program Integration and Operations Officer at the Global Green Growth Institute’s UAE Office. In addition to English, she speaks Mandarin, Korean, and Japanese.
