Siân Jones is the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada's Program Manager for the Kakehashi Project, a youth exchange program established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and managed in Canada by the Foundation.
Erin is a Senior Program Manager 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.
Don McLain Gill is a Philippines-based geopolitical analyst, author, and lecturer at the Department of International Studies, De La Salle University, Manila.
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).
Su Thet San is a Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs student at the University of British Columbia and a UBC Myanmar Initiative scholar, currently working with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. They hold a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Yangon and previously worked at a non-governmental organization in Myanmar, focusing on democratization, peace and conflict, and social harmony.
Calvin San is a Knowledge for Democracy Myanmar (K4DM) Initiative fellow working with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada’s Southeast Asia team. He is pursuing a master’s degree in political science at the University of British Columbia and also affiliated with its Institute for Asian Research. His research interests are state-society relations, ethnic politics, and identity politics, with a focus on Southeast Asia.
Jia Wang is a Senior Fellow and Senior Advisor, and served as the Interim Director (Jan 2021 – Aug 2023), of the China Institute at the University of Alberta, where she has managed research, programs, and government and media relations since 2011. She is also a Senior Fellow (non-resident) with APF Canada.
Jia has more than 17 years of direct management experience focusing on the economic and political dimensions of contemporary China and Canada-China relations in various capacities.
Lynette H. Ong is a Professor of Political Science at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, a Senior Fellow at the Asia Society’s Center for China Analysis, and a Senior Fellow (non-resident) at APF Canada.
She is an expert on China and Southeast Asia (Singapore and Malaysia). She is the author of three books: Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China, which has won multiple accolades from various disciplinary associations; The Street and the Ballot Box: Interactions Between Social Movements and Electoral Politics in Authoritarian Contexts; and, Prosper or Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China.
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.
