Saara Leppanen is a PhD Candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. During her undergraduate years she focused on studying human rights, African affairs and conflicts, and women’s rights in development. This interest grew during her Master’s program as she studied religion and politics and their effect on East African countries. Spending her formative years […]
Caleb Lauer is a PhD student at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He is a freelance journalist and was based in Istanbul, Turkey between 2006 and 2015. Before that he worked for the Canadian government and worked and volunteered for a number of NGOs in Canada, Hong Kong, and India. Caleb has a BA in
Burgess’ research explores the governance of atypical technologies, such as solar geoengineering. Most research into solar geoengineering governance is being conducted at the international level, but how are nations supposed to engage effectively when they do not have domestic positions or rationales? His research explores how solar geoengineering’s technical characteristics may be uniquely relevant to
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Rosemary Kimani-Dupuis was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Rosemary undertook studies and worked in Aeronautical Engineering, where she inspected, repaired, overhauled and installed (running fault diagnostics) aircraft and helicopter electronic, radio and navigation systems—Airbus A310,Boeing B737-200 and B737-300, Cessna Citation, Beech King Air, Pilatus PC-12, Schweizer 300C and Bell 206B. Rosemary currently works at Service Ontario (past 3 years). As
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Carla Johnston is a Ph.D. Candidate and a Doctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her research explores the processes of including Indigenous knowledge and practices in food systems governance from the local to the global scale, and the connections between these scales. More sustainable, resilient and just food systems are needed throughout
Jonathan Hui is a PhD from the Balsillie School of International Affairs, with research interests in the fields of futures studies, international relations, and sociology, particularly Chinese and Asian approaches to international order. His dissertation is titled “Heaven is Quiet and Technologies are Everywhere: Chinese Cosmotechnics and Dyadic Approaches to International Structure”, which sketches a
Nelson Graham is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs through Wilfrid Laurier University. His research delves into the pivotal role higher education institutions are playing in providing academic and integration supports to international students. Additionally, he explores how international student’s temporary status hinders their access to federal and
Lana Gonzalez Balyk is a Ph.D. Candidate in Global Governance with the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests included critical migration and border studies, with a focus on gender. From an intersectional feminist framework, her dissertation examines how migration governance policies and practices shape the lived experiences and
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Aaron is s a PhD Candidate in the Global Governance program at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, who is pursuing a specialization in global political economy. Aaron’s research examines the political economy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the Caribbean with specific reference to extractive industry development in the aluminum and oil sectors of
Julie Clark is in the PhD Global Governance program at the Balsillie School of International Affairs through Wilfrid Laurier University. Julie completed a Master’s degree in History with a focus on Modern Korean History and North East Asian Politics, with a research focus on the 1946-47 US-USSR Joint Commission on Korea. Following her Master’s she was
Deon Castello is a PhD Student in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, specializing in global social governance. She holds a BA (Hons) in Legal Studies with concentration in human rights law and communication. A recent Ryerson Immigration and Settlement Studies Masters graduate she mediates and liaisons with governmental and
Farah Afzal is a Ph.D. Candidate and a Doctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. For PhD research, her investigation revolves around gender identity, its history in British colonial era to present, their advocacy campaigns, legislations and activism in South Asia. Recently, she has completed her second master’s degree in Communication Studies from Wilfrid
