Core Faculty
Alex Yu-Ting Lin
Alex Yu-Ting Lin
Assistant Professor
emailayt.lin@ubc.ca
Alex Yu-Ting Lin is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.
He is also a nonresidential affiliated faculty at the University of Notre Dame's International Security Center.
Alex studies the causes and strategies of revisionism, with a focus...Read more
ON LEAVE
Aug 2025 - July 2026
Allison Macfarlane
Allison Macfarlane
ON LEAVE
Aug 2025 - July 2026
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
Candis Callison
Candis Callison
Professor
location_onLiu Institute, Room 209
Candis Callison is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous journalism, media, and public discourse, and a Professor jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. Her research and teaching are focused on changes to media prac...Read more
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 PolicyProfessor Heidi Tworek is a Canada Research Chair and Professor of History and Public Policy at the University of British Columbia, where she also directs the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Her work explores how new communications technologies affect democracy in the past and prese...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
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 and Global Affairs and the Department of Political Science. He also serves as Director of UBC's Institute of Asian Research and Associate...Read more
ON LEAVE
On sabbatical until January 2027.
Kristen Hopewell
Kristen Hopewell
ON LEAVE
On sabbatical until January 2027.
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Policy
phone604-822-3741
location_onLiu Institute, Room 212
Research Expertise
International Trade, Diplomacy, and Foreign RelationsOn sabbatical until January 2027.
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 speciali...Read more
Research Expertise
International Trade, Diplomacy, and Foreign Relations
M. V. Ramana
M. V. Ramana
Professor; Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security; Director pro tem SPPGA
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 the Director pro tem, SPPGA for the 2025-26 academic year.
His research interests are in the broad areas of internati...Read more
Matias Margulis
Matias Margulis
Associate Professor (on leave until Jan 2027)
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 Rights
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
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
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
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
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.
Tricia is a Métis scholar with more than 20 years of experience working with Indigenous communities in Canada. She has held roles at the National Centre for Trut...Read more
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
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
Arig al Shaibah
Research Expertise
Social Justice and Human RightsArig al Shaibah is Associate Vice-President Equity & Inclusion at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada where she is also an Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies. She is a scholar-practitioner with over twenty-five years of experience working in...Read more
Research Expertise
Social Justice and Human Rights
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
emailchris.tenove@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
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
Hossein Azarpanah
Hossein Azarpanah
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Hossein Azarpanah is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) at the University of British Columbia. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from Concordia University, where he studied how social media discourse shapes public understanding and collective...Read more
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
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
Kyung-Ae Park
Kyung-Ae Park
Professor Emeritus
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 Emeritus 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...Read more
Research Expertise
International Trade, Diplomacy, and Foreign Relations
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
Mohamed Ibrahim
Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Social Work and Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar. He is also an Affiliated Research Investigator with the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and a former Clinical Addiction Fellow at th...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
Nam-lin Hur
Professor Nam-lin Hur is co-director of the Centre for Korean Research at IAR. He teaches premodern Japanese history, Korean-Japanese relations, and Chosŏn Korea in the Department of Asian Studies and conducts research on foreign relations, religion, and society in premodern Japan and Korea. His cu...Read more
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 principal academic appointments have been at Acadia University, 1980-81; York University, 1981-99 where he directed the Joint C...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
Shigenori Matsui
Shigenori Matsui
Co-Director of Centre for Japanese Research
emailmatsui@allard.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5592
location_onAllard Hall, Room 354
Professor Shigenori Matsui is Co-Director of the Centre for Japanese Research (CJR), part of the Institute of Asian Research (IAR) at UBC.
Professor Matsui joined the Allard School of Law in January 2006 as Director of Japanese Legal Studies, coming to UBC from Osaka University Law School where h...Read more
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
ON LEAVE
Summer 2025 - Summer 2027
Yves Tiberghien
Yves Tiberghien
ON LEAVE
Summer 2025 - Summer 2027
Co-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 and Director Emeritus of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. He is also the Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research and Director ...Read more