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
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Policy; Director, Liu Institute for Global Issues
phone604-822-4687
location_onC.K. Choi Building, Room 367
Kristen 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
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 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 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
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 (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
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; Graduate Program Director, MPPGA program; Co-Lead, Himalaya Program, IAR
location_onC.K. Choi Building 229
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.
Sara is a sociocultural anthropologist whose current research focuses on community resilience and disaster governance in the face ...Read more
Sheryl Lightfoot
Sheryl Lightfoot
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 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
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
Tarun Khanna
Tarun Khanna
Assistant Professor
emailtarun.khanna@ubc.ca
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; Director, Centre for Chinese Research, IAR
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
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
Michael Small
Michael Small is an Adjunct Professor, Faculty Lead for the Global Policy Project, and a member of the MPPGA Teaching Faculty at UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He spent 33 years as a career diplomat and senior executive in the Canadian Foreign Service. He joined the Department o...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
MPPGA Teaching Faculty
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
Atieh Razavi Yekta
Atieh RAZAVI YEKTA has been actively involved in both research and teaching appointments within the Faculties of Arts and Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC) for the past seven years. She plays a role in co-supervising capstone projects in the Master of Occupational Therapy program ...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
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
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
Helina Jolly
Helina Jolly
Instructor
emailhelina.jolly@ubc.ca
Helina Jolly is a National Geographic Explorer and interdisciplinary researcher studying relationalities between Indigenous communities and forest ecosystems. Her work has involved collaboration and co-production of research with the Kattunayakan people of the Western Ghats in India and the Miapukek...Read more
Jonathan Graves
Jonathan Graves
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Areas of Expertise
EconomicsI 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
Areas of Expertise
Economics
Michael Huenefeld
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
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
EconomicsAssociate Members
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
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
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
Centre and Program Leadership
Chris Tenove
Chris Tenove
Director (Interim), 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 Director (interim) 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
Areas of Expertise
Democracy
Don Baker
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
Areas of Expertise
Asia
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
Mark Turin
Mark Turin
Interim Editor Pacific Affairs; Co-Lead, Himalaya Program, IAR
emailmark.turin@ubc.ca
Areas of Expertise
AsiaMark 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
Areas of Expertise
Asia
Priti Narayan
Priti Narayan
Director, Centre for India and South Asia Research
Dr. Priti Narayan is Director of the Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR) and the Asa and Kashmir (A&K) Johal Chair of Indian Research. Her home department is Geography. Her research and teaching interests center around urban processes and politics, particularly in India. Her long-te...Read more
Qiang Fu
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
Areas of Expertise
AsiaFellows & 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
Jack Hayes
Dr. Jack Patrick Hayes 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. Jack teaches in the History Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University where he teaches modern Chinese and Japa...Read more
Jawad Hussain Qureshi
Jawad Hussain Qureshi
Practitioner Fellow
location_onC.K. Choi Building 373
Jawad Hussain Qureshi is a Senior South Asia analyst in the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat (IAS) of the Government of Canada's Privy Council Office. The IAS provides the Privy Council Office (National Security & Intelligence Advisor, Foreign and Defense Policy Advisor to the PM) and other s...Read more
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
Raissa Gambi
Raissa Gambi
Practitioner Fellow
emailrfontela@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 2533
location_on#365, C.K. Choi
Areas of Expertise
Social JusticeRaissa Fontelas Rosado Gambi is a social scientist who has served as a Public Policy and Government Management Analyst with the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil since 2016. With over 15 years of experience in the fields of social policy, project management, and community engagement, she has held d...Read more
Areas of Expertise
Social Justice
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
emaildouglas.ober@ubc.ca
Areas of Expertise
AsiaDouglas 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
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
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
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
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
Seth Klein
Seth Klein
Honorary research associate
emailseth@sethklein.ca
Seth is the Team Lead and Director of Strategy with the Climate Emergency Unit (a 5-year project of the David Suzuki Institute). Prior to that, he served for 22 years as the founding director of the British Columbia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Canada’s foremost so...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