Core Faculty
Allison Macfarlane
Allison Macfarlane
Director, SPPGA
location_onLiu Institute for Global Issues
Dr. Allison M. Macfarlane is Professor and Director of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs within the Faculty of Arts at UBC. Dr. Macfarlane has held both academic and government positions in the field of energy and environmental policy, especially nuclear policy. Most recently, she direc...Read more
Geographic Expertise
Canada & United States
Candis Callison
Candis Callison
Associate Professor
location_onLiu Institute, Room 209
Candis Callison is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous journalism, media, and public discourse, and an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She is also an associate faculty in the School of Jo...Read more
Research Expertise
Environment and Climate Change | Indigenous Policy and Politics | Media and Journalism | Science and Technology PolicyGeographic Expertise
Canada & United States
David Boyd
David Boyd
Associate Professor
Research Expertise
Environment and Climate Change | Social Justice and Human Rights | Sustainable Resource PolicyAssociate Professor David Boyd is jointly appointed with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at the University of British Columbia. He is one of Canada’s leading experts in environmental law and policy and an...Read more
Research Expertise
Environment and Climate Change | Social Justice and Human Rights | Sustainable Resource PolicyGeographic Expertise
Canada & United States
Erin Baines
Erin Baines is Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include transitional justice, the politics of humanitarianism and forced displacement and the study of gender, youth, and armed conflict.
She sits o...Read more
Heidi Tworek
Heidi Tworek
Professor; Director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions
emailheidi.tworek@ubc.ca
Research Expertise
Democracy and Citizenship | Global Health Policy | Media and Journalism | Science and Technology PolicyDr. Heidi Tworek is a Canada Research Chair and professor of history and public policy at UBC. She directs the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Her work examines history and policy around communications, particularly the effects of new media technologies on democracy. She is a senior...Read more
Research Expertise
Democracy and Citizenship | Global Health Policy | Media and Journalism | Science and Technology Policy
Hugh Gusterson
Hugh Gusterson
Professor
location_onLiu Institute, Room 101A
Professor Hugh Gusterson (PhD, Stanford University, 1991) is jointly appointed with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Before coming to UBC in 2020, he taught at MIT, George Mason University, George Washing...Read more
Geographic Expertise
Canada & United States
Julian Dierkes
Julian Dierkes
Associate Professor; Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research
location_onC.K. Choi, Room 271
Research Expertise
Democracy and Citizenship | Development | International Trade, Diplomacy, and Foreign RelationsJulian Dierkes is Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA), Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research, and Coordinator, Program on Inner Asia, at the University of British Columbia.
He serves as an Senior Associate Dean in the Faculty of Graduate + Postdoctoral Studie...Read more
Research Expertise
Democracy and Citizenship | Development | International Trade, Diplomacy, and Foreign RelationsGeographic Expertise
East Asia
Juliet Lu
Juliet Lu is an Assistant Professor in the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Department of Forest Resources Management at the University of British Columbia. She is a political ecologist focused on the implications of China’s growing investments in land and other resources in Sou...Read more
Research Expertise
Sustainable Resource Policy
Kai Ostwald
Kai Ostwald
Associate Professor; Director, Institute of Asian Research
emailkai.ostwald@ubc.ca
phone604 822 8723
location_onC.K. Choi, Room 254
Kai Ostwald is the HSBC Chair in Asian Research and an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy & Global Affairs and the Department of Political Science. He also serves as Director of UBC's Institute of Asian Research and Associa...Read more
Kristen Hopewell
Kristen Hopewell
Professor; Director, Liu Institute for Global Issues
phone604-822-3741
location_onLiu Institute, Room 212
Research Expertise
International Trade, Diplomacy, and Foreign RelationsKristen Hopewell is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Policy in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues. She is also a former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research. Her research specializes in international trade, global go...Read more
Research Expertise
International Trade, Diplomacy, and Foreign Relations
Kyung-Ae Park
Kyung-Ae Park
Associate Professor; Director, Knowledge Partnership Program
emailkpark@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 2483
location_onC.K. Choi, Room 263
Research Expertise
International Trade, Diplomacy, and Foreign RelationsProfessor Kyung-Ae Park is Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and holds the Korea Foundation Chair at the Institute of Asian Research, the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is a former President of the Association of Korean Political Studies in North America....Read more
Research Expertise
International Trade, Diplomacy, and Foreign RelationsGeographic Expertise
East Asia
M. V. Ramana
M. V. Ramana
Professor; Graduate Program Director, MPPGA program; Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security
emailm.v.ramana@ubc.ca
location_onLiu Institute, Room 313
M. V. Ramana is Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA), University of British Columbia. He is also Graduate Program Director of the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) program.
His research intere...Read more
Geographic Expertise
South Asia
Matias Margulis
Matias Margulis
Associate Professor
phone604 822 5783
location_onLiu Institute, Room 213
Research Expertise
International Trade, Diplomacy, and Foreign Relations | Social Justice and Human RightsMatias Margulis is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. His research and teaching interests are in global governance, development, human rights, international law and food policy. He has prev...Read more
Research Expertise
International Trade, Diplomacy, and Foreign Relations | Social Justice and Human RightsGeographic Expertise
Canada & United States
Maxwell Cameron
Professor Maxwell A. Cameron (Ph.D., California, Berkeley, 1989) is jointly appointed with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and Political Science. He is the former Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) and the former Acting Director of t...Read more
Research Expertise
Democracy and Citizenship
Milind Kandlikar
Milind Kandlikar is Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES). He is the former Director of IRES and his work focuses on the intersection of technology innovation, human development and the global enviro...Read more
Geographic Expertise
South Asia
Nadja Kunz
Nadja Kunz
Associate Professor
emailnadja.kunz@ubc.ca
phone604 822 9782
location_onLiu Institute, Room 210
Nadja Kunz is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Mine Water Management and Stewardship (NSERC, Tier 2), jointly appointed across the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and the Norman B Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering (NBK) at the University of British Columbia (...Read more
Navin Ramankutty
Navin Ramankutty is Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Data Science for Sustainable Global Food Systems at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), University of British Columbia. He also serves as...Read more
Philippe Le Billon
Philippe Le Billon is Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and at the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His research engages with the environment-development-security nexus, including climate change, ocean governance, extractive sectors, and confli...Read more
Rashid Sumaila
Rashid Sumaila
Professor
Rashid Sumaila is Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics, Tier 1 and Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA). Dr. Sumaila specializes in bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the anal...Read more
Sara Shneiderman
Sara Shneiderman
Associate Professor; Co-Lead, Himalaya Program, IAR
location_onC.K. Choi, Room 229
Sara Shneiderman is an Associate Professor and Ivan Head South-North Chair in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and cross-appointed with the Department of Anthropology.
Sara is a sociocultural anthropologist whose current research focuses on community resilience and disaster governan...Read more
Sheryl Lightfoot
Sheryl Lightfoot is Canada Research Chair of Global Indigenous Rights and Politics and Professor with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Department of Political Science, and First Nations and Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia.
As one of the world’s experts in...Read more
Geographic Expertise
Canada & United States
Soo Yeon Kim
Soo Yeon Kim
Associate Professor; Editor, Pacific Affairs; Korea Foundation Chair
emailsooyeon.kim@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4537
location_onC.K. Choi, Room 264
Research Expertise
International Trade, Diplomacy, and Foreign RelationsSoo Yeon Kim is an Associate Professor with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA), Editor of Pacific Affairs, and the Korea Foundation Chair at the University of British Columbia. Her research area is international political economy with a specialization in trade politics. Her curre...Read more
Research Expertise
International Trade, Diplomacy, and Foreign Relations
Tara Cookson
Tara Patricia Cookson is Assistant Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Gender, Development, and Global Public Policy at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) at the University of British Columbia. Tara is also an Associate Member of UBC's Geography Department. She uses eth...Read more
Geographic Expertise
Latin America
Tarun Khanna
Tarun M. Khanna is an Assistant Professor with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and a visiting researcher at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Berlin. His research interests focus on energy and climate policy.
Dr. Khanna studied economic...Read more
Timothy Cheek
Timothy Cheek
Professor; Co-Director, Centre for Chinese Research, IAR; Louis Cha Chair
emailt.cheek@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4688
location_onC.K. Choi, Room 276
Timothy Cheek is a Professor with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of History, Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research, and C0-Director of the Centre for Chinese Research at the Institute of Asian Research (IAR). He has been a professor at UBC since 2002, teaching in the IAR...Read more
Geographic Expertise
East Asia
Tricia Logan
emailtricia.logan@ubc.ca
Tricia Logan is jointly appointed at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She is also the interim Academic Director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC.
Tricia is a Métis scholar with more than 20 years ...Read more
Geographic Expertise
Canada & United States
Tsering Shakya
Tsering Shakya
Associate Professor; Co-Lead, Himalaya Program, IAR
emailtshakya@mail.ubc.ca
location_onC.K. Choi, Room 281
Tsering Shakya is Associate Professor and holds the Canada Research Chair in Religion and Contemporary Society in Asia at the Institute for Asian Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia. He is co-lead of the Himalaya Program.
Tsering is a widely publi...Read more
Veena Sriram
Veena Sriram
Assistant Professor
emailveena.sriram@ubc.ca
location_onC.K. Choi, Room 371
Research Expertise
Global Health PolicyVeena Sriram is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Global Health Policy, with a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) at the University of British Columbia. Her research sits at the in...Read more
Research Expertise
Global Health PolicyAffiliated Faculty
Amartya Lahiri
Amartya Lahiri
MPPGA Teaching Faculty
I work on things that I find interesting. These days those interests involve macro and microeconomic developments in India over the past three decades. But it changes…
My research area focuses are international economics, macroeconomics, and development economics. I obtained my Ph.D. from t...Read more
Andrea Reimer
Andrea Reimer
MPPGA Teaching Faculty
location_onCK Choi Building #361
Andrea Reimer is an Adjunct Professor of Practice at UBC's School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. She was the school's first Policy Practitioner Fellow. Andrea has been a strong public voice in Vancouver and the metro region for almost two decades, with a focus on working with residents to buil...Read more
Catherine Hecht
Catherine Hecht
MPPGA Teaching Faculty; Honorary Research Associate
Catherine Hecht is a political scientist whose research and teaching focus on international organizations, democratic governance, sustainable development, the evolution of international norms and discourses, and multilateral diplomacy in the United Nations (UN) system and the Organization for Securi...Read more
Chris Tenove
Chris Tenove
Assistant Director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions; MPPGA Teaching Faculty; Research Associate
emailcjtenove@mail.ubc.ca
Research Expertise
Democracy and CitizenshipChris Tenove is a Research Associate and Instructor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Assistant Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI). He has held teaching and research positions in UBC’s Political Science department and Global Reporting Ce...Read more
Research Expertise
Democracy and Citizenship
Don Baker
Don Baker
Co-Director, Centre for Korean Research
emaildon.baker@ubc.ca
Dr. Don Baker is Professor of Korean civilization in the UBC Department of Asian Studies and the Co-director of the Centre for Korean Research at SPPGA. He’s been involved with Korea since 1971, when he began three years of service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the southwestern city of Gwangju. He...Read more
Douglas Ober
Douglas Ober
Honorary Research Associate
emaildouglas.ober@ubc.ca
Douglas Ober is an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia and a Visiting Assistant Professor in History at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He is a historian of South Asia, Buddhism, and colonialism. With more than ...Read more
Emrul Hasan
Emrul Hasan
MPPGA Teaching Faculty
emailemrul.hasan@ubc.ca
Emrul Hasan is a member of the MPPGA Teaching Faculty and a Lecturer at the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC, where he teaches Macroeconomics, Econometrics, International Trade, and International Finance. He has also taught economics and finance courses at Simon Fraser University and the British...Read more
George Hoberg
George Hoberg
Professor Emeritus
emailgeorge.hoberg@ubc.ca
George Hoberg is a Professor Emeritus at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) at the University of British Columbia. He specializes in environmental and natural resource policy and governance. His research interests include environmental policy, energy policy, forest policy, and mo...Read more
Grace Jaramillo
Grace Jaramillo
MPPGA Teaching Faculty; Honorary Research Associate
Research Expertise
DevelopmentGrace Jaramillo is a sessional instructor with the UBC Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs program, as well as an Honorary Research Associate with SPPGA. Her research tackles one of the long-standing issues of development: industrial and trade policy in the Global South and its capacity to he...Read more
Research Expertise
Development
Htet Thiha Zaw
emailhtzaw@mail.ubc.ca
location_onOffice 222, C.K. Choi Building
Htet Thiha Zaw is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia. He studies how institutions created and maintained by indigenous societies shaped historical state development in the Global South, with regional expertise in Southeast Asia and...Read more
Geographic Expertise
Southeast Asia
John Roosa
Dr. John Roosa is Professor at the Department of History and the Director of the Centre for South East Asia Research at UBC. His research centres around the themes of Nationalism, Imperialism, and Oral history. His most recent book project Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-66 in ...Read more
Jonathan Graves
Jonathan Graves
MPPGA Teaching Faculty
I am an assistant professor of teaching and the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Curriculum and Students) at the Vancouver School of Economics (VSE), where I help students with their economics program, and develop our curriculum for economics education. I also teach a wide range of undergraduate c...Read more
Marco Zenone
emailmarcoz1@mail.ubc.ca
Marco Zenone (he/him) is a global health policy researcher working to create safer online environments for vulnerable and underserved groups. His research (1) critically examines digital platforms for their contributions to global public health harms, (2) monitors and preemptively debunks harmful he...Read more
Mark Turin
Mark Turin
Co-Lead, Himalaya Program, IAR
emailmark.turin@ubc.ca
Mark Turin is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, the Interim Editor of Pacific Affairs (2023-24) and Co-Lead of UBC’s Himalaya Program. He writes and teaches on ethnolinguistics, language endangerment, visual anthropology, digital archives and fieldwork methodology, and is a regular BBC prese...Read more
Michael Huenefeld
Michael Huenefeld
MPPGA Teaching Faculty
emailmehuenef@mail.ubc.ca
His professional experience encompasses a variety of roles, including work in post-secondary teaching, operations management, policy analysis, and financial services. He has taught business and management courses at several local universities and colleges, such as Simon Fraser University, Kwantlen P...Read more
Moura Quayle
Moura is Professor and founding Director of UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (2017-2019), the former Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues, and teaches in the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs program. She was appointed Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, ...Read more
Nathan Bennett
Nathan Bennett
Honorary Research Associate
Research Expertise
Sustainable Resource PolicyDr. Nathan Bennett (nathanbennett.ca) is an Honorary Research Associate at the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He is a researcher, a teacher, a facilitator and an independent consultant who works for various non-governmental, academic, and philanthropic organizations.
He has pub...Read more
Research Expertise
Sustainable Resource Policy
Paul Evans
Paul Evans
Professor Emeritus
emailpaul.evans@ubc.ca
Paul Evans (PhD with distinction Dalhousie University 1982) retired from UBC in June 2023 after 43 years of university teaching. He is currently Professor Emeritus.
His academic appointments have been as follows:
Assistant Professor, Acadia University, 1980-81
Assistant, Associate and P...Read more
Qiang Fu
Qiang Fu
Co-Director, Centre for Chinese Research
emailqiang.fu@ubc.ca
Dr. Qiang Fu is Associate Professor of Sociology and the Co-Director of the Centre for Chinese Research at the University of British Columbia. His research projects focus on a variety of topics including social and discursive construction of Chinese history, everyday life in Chinese cities, and poli...Read more
Richard Paisley
Richard Paisley is an Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of Asian Research, UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He is a practicing lawyer and the Director of the Global Transboundary International Waters Governance Initiative at UBC. Richard’s current research, teaching, gra...Read more
Research Expertise
Development
Steven Lee
Steven Lee
Co-Director of Centre for Korean Research
emailstevenhl@mail.ubc.ca
Steven Lee is co-director of the Centre for Korean Research at IAR. He is Associate Professor in the Department of History where he teaches courses on Twentieth Century Global History, Twentieth Century Korea, and the International Relations of the Great Powers.
His research concentrates on inter...Read more
Thea Bracewell
Thea Bracewell is a Senior Policy Analyst with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, where she is the lead on advancing gender equality and mainstreaming Gender-based Analysis Plus within Canada’s Settlement and Integration Sector. Thea has over fourteen years of professional experience ad...Read more
Research Expertise
Gender Policy
Ulrike Lühe
Ulrike Lühe
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
emailulrike.luehe@ubc.ca
location_onOffice 206, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Ulrike Lühe is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs and School of Information, the University of British Columbia where she works in collaboration with the Transformative Memory International Network under the supervision of Erin Baines (SPPGA) and Elizabether Sh...Read more
Yves Tiberghien
Yves Tiberghien
Director, Centre for Japanese Research, IAR; Konwakai Chair
phone604-822-4688
Yves Tiberghien (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2002; Harvard Academy Scholar 2006; Fulbright Scholar 1996) is a Professor of Political Science, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Asian Research (IAR), Faculty Associate with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Co-Director of the Center...Read more
Zahir Faqiri
Zahir Faqiri
Research Associate, Institute of Asian Research
Zahir Faqiri is a Research Associate at the Institute of Asian Research and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He is a distinguished academic and practitioner diplomat with profound expertise in international relations, regional governance and global governance within the framework of United Nations platforms....Read more