Authors

Eva is Vice-President, Research and Programs at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

Ka Po Kong is a former junior research fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She is currently a student of Sociology at the University of B.C.

Paul Thoppil joined Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada in 2014 as the Chief Financial Officer, and took on an expanded mandate, including departmental business planning and reporting on results.

Prior to joining INAC, Paul worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada where he held the position of Commercial Minister at the Canadian Embassy to Japan in Tokyo since 2009. While in Tokyo, Paul advanced free-trade negotiations with Japan on behalf of the Government of Canada.

Previously, Paul served several successive Director General positions responsible for such functions as Innovation and Partnerships, Corporate Finance, Corporate Planning (International Trade), and Global Business Opportunities.

Pitman B. Potter is a Distinguished Fellow Emeritus with APF Canada, Emeritus Professor with Allard School of Law at the University of B.C., and a Member of the Order of Canada.

Qiang Zha is an associate professor and the graduate program director in education at York University, Canada. He is also a faculty associate to the York Centre for Asian Research.

His research interests include Chinese and East Asian higher education, international academic relations, global brain circulation, internationalization of higher education, globalization and education, differentiation and diversity in higher education, theories of organizational change, knowledge transfer and commercialization, and post-secondary co-op education in Canada and elsewhere. He has written and published widely on these topics.

Kristina Shen is a recent graduate of the Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria where she majored in International Business. She followed an academic exchange in Japan in 2016-2017 with a co-op term at the Kyoto Sangyo University in Japan.

Peter Wang is a student at the Sauder School of Business at the University of B.C., where he is working toward a Bachelor of Commerce degree, with a focus on accounting. In 2017, he completed a co-op term with Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) Taiwan in Tainan.

Hannah Shin was a student at the University of Victoria, where she studied Anthropology. She also has a degree in microbiology from the University of Manitoba. From October 2016 to March 2017, she interned with Network Activities Group (NAG), a Myanmar-based NGO that works with communities impacted by Cyclone Nargis (2008). Her internship was arranged through the University of Victoria’s Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives (CAPI). 

Brian L. Job is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security and Defence Forum program at the University of British Columbia and Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

Dr. Tran Dai Quang is President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and Chairman of the 25^th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting.