Authors

Dr. Scott Harrison is a former Senior Program Manager, Northeast Asia, with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

Yvonne Lau is a Vancouver-based journalist who covers business and culture with an eye on China and Russia. Yvonne’s bylines can be found in Fortune, Forbes, Maclean’s, The Walrus, Broadview, and more. She is part of Room Up Front’s 2023-2024 cohort of mentee photojournalists; a former ambassador for Women LEAD Nepal, and a former co-chair at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. 

Yvonne was the recipient of a 2023-2024 Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Media Fellowship.

Deanna L. Horton is currently a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, and a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. At the Munk School, Ms. Horton has undertaken research focused on Canadian company locations in Asia, based on data collected for an interactive map. 

In her diplomatic career, Ms. Horton served as Canada’s Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, as Minister (Congressional, Public and Intergovernmental Relations) in Washington, and a total of twelve years in Japan culminating in her appointment as Deputy Head of Mission. She was a negotiator on the original North American Free Trade Agreement, and then spent four years in Washington following the NAFTA and WTO legislation through U.S. Congress. In the private sector, Ms. Horton was Vice-President (Investor Relations and Corporate Affairs) at Sherritt International, a diversified resource company.

Ms. Horton has a Diploma in International Studies from the Bologna Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; M.A. (International Affairs) from Carleton University Norman Paterson School of International Affairs; B.A. (Hons) McGill University. Ms. Horton also spent two years at the U.S. State Department Foreign Service Institute in Yokohama, Japan.

Fen Osler Hampson, Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of International Affairs, Normal Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University

Fen Osler Hampson is Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of International Affairs at the Normal Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) at Carleton University in Ottawa. The former Director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (2000-2012), Professor Hampson served as Director of the Global Commission on Internet Governance and is the President of the World Refugee & Migration Council. 

He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University where he also received his A.M. degree. Hampson also holds an MSc. (Econ.) degree (with distinction) from the London School of Economics and a B.A. (Hon.) from the University of Toronto. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he is the author or co-author of 15 books and editor or co-editor of 32 other volumes, with expertise in Canadian foreign policy, internet governance, international organization and negotiation, and conflict resolution and analysis.

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.

Kai Ostwald is the Director of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. He is also Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Department of Political Science. His work focuses broadly on politics and development in Southeast Asia, and has been published in leading disciplinary and area studies journals. Kai has also been involved in policy and development work for a range of organizations including the World Bank and the International Development Research Centre. He holds additional research appointments at ISEAS in Singapore and the Penang Institute in Malaysia, and was previously VP of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies.

Paul Meyer is Adjunct Professor of International Studies and Fellow in International Security at Simon Fraser University. He is a Senior Advisor to ICT4Peace, an NGO promoting a “peaceful environment” in cyberspace.

Danielle Goldfarb is an advisor and expert on the digital economy, real-time data, geopolitics, trade, and public policy. She is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, an advisor on public policy to Mila (Quebec Institute on Artificial Intelligence), a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Canada Institute, a director on the Board of the Toronto Association for Business and Economics, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. 

Charles Labrecque has worked in various roles at the Foundation since 2013, initially as a Project Manager (2013-2015) and since 2018 as Research Director. Between 2015 and 2017, Charles was Lecturer in International Relations and Canadian Politics at Simon Fraser University. He graduated with a master’s degree in international studies from Université de Montréal in 2008 and a PhD in Political Science from Université Laval in Quebec City in 2016. His research interests cover Canadian foreign policy in Asia, subnational relations, and Canada-China relations with a specific focus on human rights.

Momo Sakudo is a Research Scholar with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada’s Northeast Asia Team with a specialization in Japan. She holds a Master of Public Policy from the School of Public Affairs at Sciences Po Paris and a dual Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia and Sciences Po Paris. As a Japanese national living in Canada, Momo is interested in exploring Asia's growing role in the international community, especially in relation to North America and Europe.