Adjunct Faculty
Andrea Reimer
Andrea Reimer
Adjunct Professor
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
Lindsay Cole
Lindsay Cole
Adjunct Professor
emaillindsay.cole@ubc.ca
Lindsay Cole (she/her), Ph.D. is an applied researcher, educator, and civil servant that works toward transformative innovation on complex social and ecological justice challenges in the public sector. Her current applied and action research focuses how cities can bring practices of social innovatio...Read more
Vina Nadjibulla
Vina Nadjibulla
Adjunct Professor
Vina Nadjibulla is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. As an international security and peacebuilding specialist, Vina spent a significant portion of her career working at United Nations headquarters and in peacekeeping and pe...Read more
Core Faculty
Allison Macfarlane
Allison Macfarlane
Director, SPPGA
location_onLiu Institute for Global Issues
Areas of Expertise
Energy & ResourcesDr. 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
Areas of Expertise
Energy & Resources
David Boyd
David Boyd
Associate Professor
Associate 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
Erin Baines
Erin Baines is Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and the Ivan Head South-North Chair (supported by the International Development Research Centre – Canada) at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include transitional justice, the politics ...Read more
George Hoberg
George Hoberg
Professor
emailgeorge.hoberg@ubc.ca
phone604 822 3728
location_onLiu Building 205
Areas of Expertise
Energy & ResourcesGeorge Hoberg is a Professor 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 more genera...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Energy & Resources
Heidi Tworek
Heidi Tworek
Associate Professor; Director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions
emailheidi.tworek@ubc.ca
Dr. Heidi Tworek is a Canada Research Chair and associate professor of international 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 de...Read more
Hugh Gusterson
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
Julian Dierkes
Julian Dierkes
Associate Professor; Coordinator, Program on Inner Asia, IAR
location_onC.K. Choi Building-271
Julian 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
Juliet Lu
Juliet Lu
Assistant Professor
emailjuliet.lu@ubc.ca
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
Kai Ostwald
Kai Ostwald
Associate Professor; Director, Institute of Asian Research
emailkai.ostwald@ubc.ca
phone604 822 8723
location_onC.K. Choi Building-224
Areas of Expertise
AsiaKai Ostwald is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is also Director of the Institute of Asian Research and the Centre for Southeast Asian Research (CSEAR).
His work is broadly on...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Kristen Hopewell
Kristen Hopewell
Associate Professor; Director, Liu Institute for Global Issues; Co-Director, Centre for Chinese Research
phone604-822-4687
location_onC.K. Choi Building, Room 367
Kristen Hopewell is Canada Research Chair in Global Policy in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues, and Co-Director of the Centre for Chinese Research. Her research specializes in international trade, global governance, industrial policy and...Read more
Kyung-Ae Park
Kyung-Ae Park
Associate Professor; Director, Knowledge Partnership Program
emailkpark@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 2483
location_onC.K. Choi Building-263
Areas of Expertise
AsiaProfessor 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
Areas of Expertise
Asia
M. V. Ramana
M. V. Ramana
Professor; Graduate Program Director, MPPGA program
emailm.v.ramana@ubc.ca
location_onRoom 313, Liu Institute for Global Issues
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
Matias Margulis
Matias Margulis is Assistant 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
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
Areas of Expertise
Democracy
Milind Kandlikar
Milind Kandlikar
Professor
phone604 822 5918
location_onLiu Building 101B
Areas of Expertise
SustainabilityMilind Kandlikar is Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA). He is the former Director of the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES). His work focuses on the intersection of technology innovation, human development and the global environment. His c...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Sustainability
Moura Quayle
Moura Quayle
Professor and Founding Director
emailmoura.quayle@ubc.ca
phone604-827-5311
location_onRoom 101C, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Areas of Expertise
Strategic Design/LeadershipMoura 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
Areas of Expertise
Strategic Design/Leadership
Nadja Kunz
Nadja Kunz
Assistant Professor
emailnadja.kunz@ubc.ca
phone604 822 9782
location_onLiu Building 210
Areas of Expertise
Energy & ResourcesNadja Kunz is Assistant 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. T...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Energy & Resources
Navin Ramankutty
Navin Ramankutty
Professor; Director of the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES)
phone604 827 1745
location_onLiu Building 201B
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
Paul Evans
Paul Evans
Professor
emailpaul.evans@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2533
location_onC.K. Choi Building-365
Areas of Expertise
AsiaPaul Evans (PhD with distinction Dalhousie University 1982) has been a Professor at the University of British Columbia since 1999, teaching Asian and trans-Pacific international relations. His work was based at the Institute of Asian Research and the Liu Institute for Global Issues which are both ...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
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 Building-273
Sara Shneiderman is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She is Co-Lead of the Himalaya Program. Her research explores how social transformation is shaped by dynamics of citizenship and belo...Read more
Sheryl Lightfoot
Sheryl Lightfoot
Associate Professor
phone604 827 0712
location_onLiu Institute 216B
Areas of Expertise
Indigenous PoliticsSheryl Lightfoot is Canada Research Chair of Global Indigenous Rights and Politics and Associate 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 ...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Indigenous Politics
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
Timothy Cheek
Timothy Cheek
Professor
emailt.cheek@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4688
location_onC.K. Choi Building 254
Areas of Expertise
AsiaTimothy Cheek is a Professor with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of History, Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research, and a former 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 t...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Tsering Shakya
Tsering Shakya
Associate Professor; Co-Lead, Himalaya Program, IAR
emailtshakya@mail.ubc.ca
location_onC.K. Choi Building-281
Areas of Expertise
AsiaTsering 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
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Veena Sriram
Veena Sriram
Assistant Professor
emailveena.sriram@ubc.ca
Veena Sriram is an Assistant Professor 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 intersection of global health, social science and public pol...Read more
Faculty Associates
Brian Job
Brian L. Job (PhD, Indiana University) is Professor of Political Science and a resident Faculty Associate of School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He joined the UBC faculty in 1989, having previously been on the faculty of the University of Minnesota. He has served as Director of the Centr...Read more
Gerald Baier
Associate Professor Gerald Baier (Ph.D, Dalhousie) joined the UBC Political Science department in 2003. He is Faculty Associate with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and former Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI).
His teaching and research interest...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Democracy
Gerald Fallon
Dr. Gerald Fallon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies (Faculty of Education) at the University of British Columbia. He is also Faculty Associate with the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Professeur Associé at the Institut des sciences, des technolo...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Sustainability
Julia Harten
Julia Gabriele Harten is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia's School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) and a Faculty Associate at the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Southern California as well...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Peter Klein
Peter W. Klein is Professor with the UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, a SPPGA Faculty Associate, and a journalist who specializes in innovating how global reporting is practiced. He is the Executive Director of the Global Reporting Centre, where he works with scholars and journalists t...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Development
Yves Tiberghien
Yves Tiberghien
Faculty Associate; Director, Centre for Japanese Research, IAR
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
Fellows & Research Associates
Binoy Mascarenhas
Binoy Mascarenhas is an urban planner and economist with over 15 years of experience across sustainability, transportation, and analytics. He served as the interim Director of Urban Innovation Research at UBC’s Sustainability Hub, where he provided direction to sustainability research while also m...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Urban Studies
Chris Tenove
Chris Tenove
Assistant Director, the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions; Research Associate and Instructor
emailcjtenove@mail.ubc.ca
Areas of Expertise
DemocracyChris 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...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Democracy
Jessica DiCarlo
Jessica DiCarlo
Chevalier Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transportation and Development in China
Dr. Jessica DiCarlo is the Chevalier Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Transportation and Development in China at the Institute of Asian Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.
Jessica received her PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado ...Read more
Julia Bentley
Julia Bentley
Practitioner Fellow
emailjulia.bentley@ubc.ca
location_onOffice 212, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Julia G. Bentley is a career diplomat whose work has focused chiefly on Asia. This has given her a broad overview of the context in which Canadian foreign policy is formulated, advocated and implemented. She has held a variety of senior positions at Global Affairs Canada related to East Asia, South ...Read more
Megan Dias
Megan is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Texas at Austin. She studies the policies and programs that governments enact to further immigrant integration. She's interested in why governments adopt these programs, and what their effects are.
Prior to starting her PhD in Austi...Read more
Meggin Messenger
Meggin Messenger
Practitioner Fellow and Adjunct Professor
Meggin is a Registered Professional Forester with an undergraduate degree in Forestry and a master’s degree in Public Administration. She is an Executive Director in the BC Public Service and has led work on land use, resource stewardship, community development, climate change and sustainability.
...Read more
Thea Bracewell
Thea Bracewell
Practitioner Fellow and Adjunct Professor
Areas of Expertise
GenderThea 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
Areas of Expertise
Gender
Wahid Palash
Wahid Palash is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) at the University of British Columbia. He is working with Nadja Kunz, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Mine Water Management and Stewardship (NSERC, Tier 2).
At SPPGA, he will ...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Energy & Resources
Zoe Braden
Dr. Zoe Braden is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) within the Faculty of Arts at UBC. Zoe has a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Earth Sciences from Dalhousie University, and a PhD in Structural Geology and Tectonics from Queen’s Universit...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Energy & ResourcesHonorary Members
Douglas Ober
Douglas Ober
Honorary Research Associate, Centre for India and South Asia Research, IAR
emaildfo@mail.ubc.ca
Areas of Expertise
AsiaDouglas Ober is an Honorary Research Associate with The Centre for India and South Asia Research at the Institute of Asian Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He specializes in the history of Buddhism in South Asia, especially the modern period (c. 1700 – present). His PhD disse...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Elijah Greenstein
Elijah Greenstein
Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Japanese Research, IAR
Areas of Expertise
AsiaElijah Greenstein is an Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Japanese Research (CJR), the Institute of Asian Research at UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. Elijah is a historian of modern Japan and East Asia, with interests in maritime, spatial, and transportation history. ...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Evan Due
Evan Due
Senior Fellow, Institute of Asian Research
emailevan.due@ubc.ca
Evan Due is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Asian Research, UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He is a policy research and management consultant. He currently serves as senior advisor to the China Development Research Foundation in Beijing China. He has more than 25 years’ expe...Read more
Gisèle Yasmeen
Gisèle Yasmeen
Senior Fellow, Institute of Asian Research
Gisèle has been a Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs’ Institute of Asian Research since fall 2014. Her expertise is on food-systems in Asia, on which she has published and consulted widely since the early 1990s.
Gisèle is the former Executive Director of Food Secu...Read more
Guldana Salimjan
Guldana Salimjan
Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Chinese Research, IAR
Areas of Expertise
AsiaDr. Guldana Salimjan is an Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Chinese Research (CCR), the Institute of Asian Research at UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. Dr. Guldana Salimjan is the Ruth Wynn Woodward Junior Chair of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Department...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Jack Austin
Jack Austin
Honorary Professor, Institute of Asian Research
Areas of Expertise
AsiaJack Austin is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Asian Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. Jack Austin was a member of the Senate of Canada for 32 years, representing British Columbia and has championed stronger relations between Canad...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Jack Hayes
Jack Hayes
Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Chinese Research, IAR
emailjackhayes11@msn.com
Joseph Caron
Joseph Caron
Honorary Professor, Institute of Asian Research
Areas of Expertise
AsiaJoseph Caron is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Asian Research of the University of British Columbia. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is a former Canadian High Commissioner to India and former Canadian Ambassador to China and Japan. He has als...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Luna KC
Luna is a Faculty Lead on a Global Policy Project at UBC’s Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs.
Luna completed a PhD in International Development Studies from Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Her thesis title was: Conflict, Disaster and Changing Gender Roles in Nepal: Women’s Ev...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Marc Foggin
Marc Foggin
Honorary Research Associate, Himalaya Program, IAR
Dr. Marc Foggin is an Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of Asian Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia
He is a conservation biologist specialised in mountain environments with a focus on complex human dimensions of environmental mana...Read more
Margaret Cornish
Margaret Cornish
Senior Fellow, Institute of Asian Research
Areas of Expertise
AsiaMargaret Cornish is a former Canadian foreign service officer. She is working on projects that will deepen the understanding of Canadians with respect to China especially with respect to our trade and investment relationship. She has been approached to work on sector-based trade studies in Canada. ...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Nathan Bennett
Nathan Bennett
Honorary Research Associate
Dr. 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
Phil Calvert
Phil Calvert
Senior Fellow, Institute of Asian Research
Areas of Expertise
AsiaDr. Phil Calvert is a Senior Fellow with the Institute of Asian Research at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia. He was most recently the Canadian Ambassador to Thailand, Cambodia and Lao PDR. He served as Deputy Head of Mission in the Canadian Embassy in ...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Richard Paisley
Richard Paisley
Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Asian Research
emailrpaisley@mail.ubc.ca
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
Stephen McGurk
Stephen McGurk
Senior Fellow, Institute of Asian Research
Stephen McGurk is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Asian Research, UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. A trained economist and Sinologist, Stephen McGurk has spent more than three decades studying Asia’s rural development.
McGurk was the Director of IDRC’s Agriculture and Envi...Read more
Vincent Chan
Vincent Chan
Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Japanese Research, IAR
emailvwch@umich.edu
Areas of Expertise
AsiaVincent Chan is an Honorary Research Associate with the Centre for Japanese Research at the Institute of Asian Research, UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He is a historian who specializes in the study of medieval Japan and East Asia. His specific research interests include communicati...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Yuko Shibata
Yuko Shibata
Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Japanese Research, IAR
emailyuko.shibata@ubc.ca
Areas of Expertise
AsiaYuko Shibata is an Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research, UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.
Her research focuses on overseas Japanese and immigrant experiences in Canada, i.e., language and culture, shifting identities, Nikkei...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Yushu Zhu
Yushu Zhu
Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research
emailyushu_zhu@sfu.ca
Yushu Zhu is an Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of Asian Research. She is also an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University.
With a background in human geography and urban studies, Yushu’s research focuses on housing and community issues in China and Canada. Her empirical rese...Read more
MPPGA Teaching Faculty
Allison Macfarlane
Allison Macfarlane
Director, SPPGA
location_onLiu Institute for Global Issues
Areas of Expertise
Energy & ResourcesDr. 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
Areas of Expertise
Energy & Resources
Andrea Reimer
Andrea Reimer
Adjunct Professor
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
Antje Ellermann
Antje Ellermann is a member of the MPPGA Teaching Faculty, an Associate Professor of Political Science (Comparative Politics), and Director of the Institute for European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She is also the founder and Co-Director of the UBC Migration Resear...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Migration
Catherine Hecht
Catherine Hecht
MPPGA Teaching Faculty
Catherine Hecht is a sessional lecturer at the Masters of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) program at UBC. Her research and teaching interests include democratic and sustainable development, international organizations, social psychology and discourse in multilateral diplomacy, global heal...Read more
Chris Tenove
Chris Tenove
Assistant Director, the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions; Research Associate and Instructor
emailcjtenove@mail.ubc.ca
Areas of Expertise
DemocracyChris 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...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Democracy
David Boyd
David Boyd
Associate Professor
Associate 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
Emrul Hasan
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
Areas of Expertise
Economics
Erin Baines
Erin Baines is Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and the Ivan Head South-North Chair (supported by the International Development Research Centre – Canada) at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include transitional justice, the politics ...Read more
George Hoberg
George Hoberg
Professor
emailgeorge.hoberg@ubc.ca
phone604 822 3728
location_onLiu Building 205
Areas of Expertise
Energy & ResourcesGeorge Hoberg is a Professor 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 more genera...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Energy & Resources
Grace Jaramillo
Grace Jaramillo is a sessional instructor with the UBC Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs program. She earned her PhD from Queen’s University in 2016. Immediately after, she won a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship to study institutional spillovers of Free Trade Agreements in the Americas, spen...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Development
Heidi Tworek
Heidi Tworek
Associate Professor; Director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions
emailheidi.tworek@ubc.ca
Dr. Heidi Tworek is a Canada Research Chair and associate professor of international 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 de...Read more
Julian Dierkes
Julian Dierkes
Associate Professor; Coordinator, Program on Inner Asia, IAR
location_onC.K. Choi Building-271
Julian 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
Kai Ostwald
Kai Ostwald
Associate Professor; Director, Institute of Asian Research
emailkai.ostwald@ubc.ca
phone604 822 8723
location_onC.K. Choi Building-224
Areas of Expertise
AsiaKai Ostwald is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is also Director of the Institute of Asian Research and the Centre for Southeast Asian Research (CSEAR).
His work is broadly on...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Kristen Hopewell
Kristen Hopewell
Associate Professor; Director, Liu Institute for Global Issues; Co-Director, Centre for Chinese Research
phone604-822-4687
location_onC.K. Choi Building, Room 367
Kristen Hopewell is Canada Research Chair in Global Policy in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues, and Co-Director of the Centre for Chinese Research. Her research specializes in international trade, global governance, industrial policy and...Read more
M. V. Ramana
M. V. Ramana
Professor; Graduate Program Director, MPPGA program
emailm.v.ramana@ubc.ca
location_onRoom 313, Liu Institute for Global Issues
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
Matias Margulis
Matias Margulis is Assistant 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
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
Areas of Expertise
Democracy
Milind Kandlikar
Milind Kandlikar
Professor
phone604 822 5918
location_onLiu Building 101B
Areas of Expertise
SustainabilityMilind Kandlikar is Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA). He is the former Director of the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES). His work focuses on the intersection of technology innovation, human development and the global environment. His c...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Sustainability
Moura Quayle
Moura Quayle
Professor and Founding Director
emailmoura.quayle@ubc.ca
phone604-827-5311
location_onRoom 101C, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Areas of Expertise
Strategic Design/LeadershipMoura 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
Areas of Expertise
Strategic Design/Leadership
Nisha Malhotra
Dr. Nisha Malhotra is a teaching faculty at the (MPPGA) Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) program and has 20 years of experience teaching and mentoring at UBC.
Dr. Malhotra also heads the data analysis team at the Birthplace Lab at the faculty of medicine, UBC, where her recent r...Read more
Paul Evans
Paul Evans
Professor
emailpaul.evans@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2533
location_onC.K. Choi Building-365
Areas of Expertise
AsiaPaul Evans (PhD with distinction Dalhousie University 1982) has been a Professor at the University of British Columbia since 1999, teaching Asian and trans-Pacific international relations. His work was based at the Institute of Asian Research and the Liu Institute for Global Issues which are both ...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Peter Berman
Peter Berman
MPPGA Teaching Faculty
emailpeter.berman@ubc.ca
Prof. Peter Berman (M.Sc, Ph.D) is a member of the MPPGA teaching faculty and a health economist with forty years of experience in research, policy analysis and development, and training and education in global health. He is also a Professor at the School of Population and Public Health at UBC, wher...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 Building-273
Sara Shneiderman is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She is Co-Lead of the Himalaya Program. Her research explores how social transformation is shaped by dynamics of citizenship and belo...Read more
Sean Darling
Sean Darling
MPPGA Teaching Faculty
Areas of Expertise
EconomicsDr. Sean Darling is a member of the MPPGA teaching faculty. He has over 28 years’ experience in the BC public service having worked in seventeen progressively senior positions from Research Officer to Executive Director across ten government agencies. Sean has been working for the past decade faci...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Economics
Sheryl Lightfoot
Sheryl Lightfoot
Associate Professor
phone604 827 0712
location_onLiu Institute 216B
Areas of Expertise
Indigenous PoliticsSheryl Lightfoot is Canada Research Chair of Global Indigenous Rights and Politics and Associate 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 ...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Indigenous Politics
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
Timothy Cheek
Timothy Cheek
Professor
emailt.cheek@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4688
location_onC.K. Choi Building 254
Areas of Expertise
AsiaTimothy Cheek is a Professor with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of History, Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research, and a former 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 t...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Tricia Logan
Tricia Logan
She/Her
Tricia Logan is currently cross-appointed as an Assistant Professor (without review) at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and as 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
Tsering Shakya
Tsering Shakya
Associate Professor; Co-Lead, Himalaya Program, IAR
emailtshakya@mail.ubc.ca
location_onC.K. Choi Building-281
Areas of Expertise
AsiaTsering 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
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Veena Sriram
Veena Sriram
Assistant Professor
emailveena.sriram@ubc.ca
Veena Sriram is an Assistant Professor 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 intersection of global health, social science and public pol...Read more
SPPGA Leadership
Allison Macfarlane
Allison Macfarlane
Director, SPPGA
location_onLiu Institute for Global Issues
Areas of Expertise
Energy & ResourcesDr. 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
Areas of Expertise
Energy & Resources
George Hoberg
George Hoberg
Professor
emailgeorge.hoberg@ubc.ca
phone604 822 3728
location_onLiu Building 205
Areas of Expertise
Energy & ResourcesGeorge Hoberg is a Professor 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 more genera...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Energy & Resources
Jeehye Kim
Jeehye Kim
Director, Centre for Korean Research, IAR
Jeehye Kim is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Korean Research at the Institute of Asian Research, UBC. She received her PhD in Political Science from Harvard University, and was a predoctoral fellow in the International Security Program at ...Read more
Julian Dierkes
Julian Dierkes
Associate Professor; Coordinator, Program on Inner Asia, IAR
location_onC.K. Choi Building-271
Julian 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
Kai Ostwald
Kai Ostwald
Associate Professor; Director, Institute of Asian Research
emailkai.ostwald@ubc.ca
phone604 822 8723
location_onC.K. Choi Building-224
Areas of Expertise
AsiaKai Ostwald is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is also Director of the Institute of Asian Research and the Centre for Southeast Asian Research (CSEAR).
His work is broadly on...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Kyung-Ae Park
Kyung-Ae Park
Associate Professor; Director, Knowledge Partnership Program
emailkpark@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 2483
location_onC.K. Choi Building-263
Areas of Expertise
AsiaProfessor 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
Areas of Expertise
Asia
M. V. Ramana
M. V. Ramana
Professor; Graduate Program Director, MPPGA program
emailm.v.ramana@ubc.ca
location_onRoom 313, Liu Institute for Global Issues
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
Mark Turin
Mark Turin is an Associate Professor of Anthropology 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 presenter on issues of linguistic diversity and langua...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
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
Areas of Expertise
Democracy
Priti Narayan
Priti Narayan
Director, Centre for India and South Asia Research
Dr. Priti Narayan is the Director of CISAR and the Asa and Kashmir (A&K) Johal Chair of Indian Research. Her home department is Geography.
Sara Shneiderman
Sara Shneiderman
Associate Professor; Co-Lead, Himalaya Program, IAR
location_onC.K. Choi Building-273
Sara Shneiderman is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She is Co-Lead of the Himalaya Program. Her research explores how social transformation is shaped by dynamics of citizenship and belo...Read more
Timothy Cheek
Timothy Cheek
Professor
emailt.cheek@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4688
location_onC.K. Choi Building 254
Areas of Expertise
AsiaTimothy Cheek is a Professor with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of History, Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research, and a former 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 t...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Tsering Shakya
Tsering Shakya
Associate Professor; Co-Lead, Himalaya Program, IAR
emailtshakya@mail.ubc.ca
location_onC.K. Choi Building-281
Areas of Expertise
AsiaTsering 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
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Yves Tiberghien
Yves Tiberghien
Faculty Associate; Director, Centre for Japanese Research, IAR
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
Visiting Professors & Scholars
Gil Barros
Gil Barros is Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA), University of British Columbia. He is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP), Brazil.
His research and teaching interests are in design pro...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Development
Patrick Meyfroidt
Patrick Meyfroidt holds a PhD in geography (2009) and a degree in sociology from Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium. Since 2016 he is Research Associate at the F.R.S-FNRS (the Belgian Research Funds) and Professor at UCLouvain.
His research focuses on how land use and more b...Read more