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Marlea specialises in comparative politics and the Global South (particularly Africa). Her broad research interests are globalisation, employment and labour market restructuring from a comparative and feminist political economy perspective, regional (African) clothing production networks, and south-south labour migration and investment (specifically Asia-Africa). Her current, SSHRC-funded, five-year research project focuses on changing patterns of trade and global production of clothing, especially regional production networks and labour standards in sub-Saharan Africa. This research includes an exploration of the role of Asian migrant workers in clothing production in Lesotho and Mauritius, and Asian investment in African clothing and textiles industries.

Evan Due is an Executive Fellow at the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, a sessional lecturer at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University and an advisor to the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. He has over 35 years of experience in areas of diplomacy and public policy, development cooperation and international trade and economics. He has held executive positions with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada in Singapore and India, Global Affairs Canada in Ottawa, New Delhi and Islamabad and is a recipient of the Government of Canada Award of Excellence. He also served as an advisor to the China Development Research Foundation in Beijing China, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, and to the Ministry of Finance, (Policy and Plan Implementation), Government of Sri Lanka.Evan represented Canada at the OECD Development Assistance Committee and in other multilateral forums. His professional interests include public policy, international business, trade and investment, international development cooperation and economic governance. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Sussex, U.K.

Jingjai Hanchanlash received his Ph. D. in Public Law from France. His Post–Doctorate training included “Project Analysis” at the University of Connecticutt, USA and “Mid Career Management” at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has a wide range of experience in working in the public sector, international organizations, NGOs, academic and private sectors.

He started his career working with the Thai Government for 9 years coordinating technical and economic cooperation programs between Thailand and major European Countries. He then joined the International Development Research Center, where he served for 23 years, mainly as Asia Regional Director overseeing development research grants. He has been in the private sector since 1997.

Jingjai Hanchanlash's positions include: Chairman, Rutnin-Gimbel Lasic Center; Chairman Loxpac Co.; Chairman GMS Business Forum; Executive Board Member, The Thai Chamber of Commerce; Chairman, The French-Thai Business Council. He is also currently serving as Board member in several public organizations such as the National Education Council, the National Science and Technology Development Agency, and the Health Promotion Fund. His academic responsibilities include: Chairman of the Executive Board, University of Thai Chamber of Commerce and Council Member of King Prajadhipok Institute. He actively interacts with the civil society through his position as Secretary General of the Development Cooperation Foundation.

Dr. Dulma Karunarathna was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Program Coordinator at CAPI 糖心视频 from 2021 to 2024. She received a Merit-based Commonwealth Scholarship in the United Kingdom in 2011 and completed her Ph.D. in Archaeology at Newcastle University, United Kingdom, in 2015. She completed her MPhil and BA in Archaeology at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. She was a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the same University from 2002-2021. Her research interests are Sustainable Built Environment,  Heritage and Climate Change, and Gender Archaeology. She completed several UKRI and AHRC-funded research projects in collaboration with the School of Geo-Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK. She is currently working on a cookbook highlighting the Asian food heritage and holistic well-being approach. 

Charles Krusekopf is a professor of Business at Royal Roads University and has worked globally with the World Bank, Soros Foundation, US Trade Representative and served as a visiting professor in China, Mongolia, Germany and Austria. He founded the  and has successfully raised more than $8 million in grants to support academic exchange, fellowships and field schools in Mongolia. He researches topics including Mongolia’s economic development, energy cooperation in Northeast Asia and innovation zones in China. Krusekopf has a PhD in Economics from the University of Washington and an MA in International Relations and China Studies from Johns Hopkins School of International Studies.

Dr. Jeff Kucharski Ph.D has extensive international experience, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region including with the private sector, as the Government of Alberta’s trade representative in Tokyo and as Consul and Senior Trade Commissioner with Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. As Assistant Deputy Minister at the Alberta Department of Energy, he was responsible for international energy policy and negotiated formal energy cooperation agreements with the governments of China and Japan.

Dr. Kucharski holds a Doctor of Energy Science degree (Ph.D) from the Graduate School of Energy Science at Kyoto University in Japan and MBA and B.Com degrees from the University of Alberta. His academic research interests lie at the nexus of international trade, energy policy, and geopolitics and he has published peer-reviewed research in several international journals and academic publishers.

Dr. Carol Liao is an Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law and the UBC Sauder Distinguished Scholar of the Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics at the UBC Sauder School of Business. Her research focuses on business law, corporate governance, corporate sustainability, and business ethics. She is the Principal Investigator of a SSHRC Insight Grant-funded project studying the evolution of international corporate law and governance principles from an economic, social, and environmental sustainability lens. She is a Principal co-Investigator of the Canada Climate Law Initiative, a cross-disciplinary research hub advancing knowledge on fiduciary obligation and climate governance. Asia's interconnectedness with the world, growing influence on international norms, and leading drivers of climate change has also necessitated her research towards sustainable governance in Asia. She is the Director of the Centre for Business Law, a national research centre that hosts and co-hosts numerous events throughout the year on contemporary issues in business law.

Dr. Liao is currently editing three books on sustainable business, including Innovating Business for Sustainability: Regulatory Approaches in the Anthropocene (Edward Elgar), Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law from the Next Generation of Lawyers (McGill-Queen’s), and Contemporary Theories in Corporate Law and Corporate Governance. Before joining UBC, Dr. Liao was a faculty member at the 糖心视频 Faculty of Law, where she received the 2016 Law Students’ Society First Year Class Teaching Award.

Prior to academia, Dr. Liao was a senior associate in the New York Mergers & Acquisitions Group of Shearman & Sterling LLP, where she represented public and private multinational corporations in a variety of transactional and governance matters. On behalf of the firm, she also served as a legal researcher for the Office of the Prosecutor on location at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda, and was featured in the New York Law Journal for her pro bono asylum work. She is a former judicial clerk of the BC Court of Appeal.

Qian Liu completed her Ph.D. in Law and Society at the Faculty of Law, 糖心视频 in 2020 and is now an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary. Her research interests include legal consciousness in Chinese societies, legal pluralism, feminist legal theory, postcolonial feminist theory, sexual orientation and the law, qualitative research, and gender issues in China. Dr. Liu is the author of several articles including “Legal Consciousness of the Leftover Woman: Law and Qingin Chinese Family Relations,” which won the 2019 Asian Law and Society Association Graduate Student Article Award. She is currently working on a monograph on the impact of the interaction of state law, family relations, and social expectations on Chinese leftover women’s choices in marriage and childbearing.

Dr. Sam Liu is an Associate Professor in the School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education and the Director of the Digital Health Lab at the 糖心视频. His research focuses on developing and evaluating digital communication technologies (e.g., mobile phones, social media) to promote physical activity and well-being. Dr. Liu is a Michael Smith Health Research Scholar, dedicated to using innovative digital technology to encourage healthy lifestyles and prevent obesity and chronic diseases. Additionally, he is a co-founder of the Pathverse mobile health platform, which helps researchers leverage mobile and wearable technology to improve health outcomes.

Kenneth has spent over 50 years in International Development including  teaching in Ghana, West Africa, agriculture, fisheries and environment projects throughout South East Asia, and the Pacific Islands. His contact with PPP began when he coordinated a Canadian Funded Pacific Islands Ocean Development Project and contracted PPP to assists with the communication strategy by regular articles in Tok Blong Pasifik. He also directed a Marine Institute at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. The highlights have been working with Pacific Island communities to conserve their coral reefs & turtles.  He also claims to have been diving or snorkelling in the coral reefs of 13 Pacific Island from PNG to Rapa Nui. 

Mr. Stephens has more than 35 years of government and business experience in the Asia-Pacific region. Based in Victoria, BC, Canada, he is currently Vice Chair of the Canadian Committee on Pacific Economic Cooperation (CANCPEC), Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Executive Fellow at the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, and an associate faculty member in the School of Business at Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC. Before returning to Canada in December 2009, he was Senior Vice President (Public Policy) for Asia-Pacific for Time Warner for almost a decade, located at the company’s regional headquarters in Hong Kong. In this capacity he managed Time Warner’s public policy program in Asia Pacific for Turner Broadcasting, HBO, Warner Bros, Time Inc. and AOL.

Mr. Stephens has been an active leader in a number of regional business organizations in Asia. He served on the Executive Committee of the Board of the US National Center for APEC and is a past Executive Committee Board member of the US-Korea Business Council. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the US-ASEAN Business Council, Governor of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and Vice Chair of the Quality Brands Protection Committee, a coalition of more than 180 multinational companies engaged in strengthening IPR protection in China.

In recent years, he has written and commented extensively on Canada’s engagement with the Asia Pacific region and has testified before the Foreign Affairs and International Trade committee of the Canadian Senate.

Prior to joining Time Warner in 2000, Mr. Stephens spent 30 years in the Canadian Foreign Service with the Department of External Affairs, later the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). His last Ottawa assignment was as Assistant Deputy Minister for Policy and Communications in DFAIT. He also served abroad as Canadian Representative in Taiwan (Head of Mission-Canadian Trade Office in Taipei), Counsellor and Charge d’affaires at the Canadian Embassies in Seoul, Korea and Islamabad, Pakistan, among a number other overseas and headquarters assignments, including service at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing and Mandarin language training in Hong Kong.

Mr. Stephens was educated at the University of British Columbia (UBC), University of Toronto and Duke University, and has a Certificate in Mandarin from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Can Zhao completed his Ph.D. in political science at the Department of Political Science, 糖心视频 in 2022. He has multiple years of experience in policy analysis in France, China and Canada, and currently works for the B.C. government. His research interests lie at the intersection of the international political economy of cross-border capital flow, the comparative political economy of development, and institutional evolution, with an empirical focus on greater China. He is currently turning his Ph.D. dissertation into a monograph which explains how and why Beijing has managed to parlay foreign capital into a foreign-invested, home-grown, and Chinese-controlled information industry without challenging its authoritarian rule.