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Jim Bookbinder

Jim Bookbinder

Jim Bookbinder is Professor Emeritus of Management Science and Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is Editor of the book, Global Logistics: Transportation in International Supply Chains, published by Springer. For more than 20 years, Dr. Bookbinder was Director of WATMIMS, the UW Research Group for industrial collaborations in Logistics and Manufacturing. Jim has […]

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Bernard Owusu

Dr. Bernard Owusu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the SSHRC-funded MiFOOD project and CIHR Project on the COVID-19 pandemic. His research project focuses on “Assessing and Mitigating the Food Insecurity Consequences of COVID-19 Public Health Measurer on Marginalized Refugees and Migrants in Canada, Latin America, and Africa.” Within the MiFOOD Project, he will build

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Victor Cui

Victor Cui

Dr. Victor Cui is Conrad Research Excellence Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Global Strategy at the University of Waterloo. His research illuminates the transformative effects of geopolitical and technological disruptions on business and society. Widely regarded as a thought leader on geopolitical tensions and the evolving paradigms of (de)globalization, Dr. Cui’s work has

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Mollie Holmberg

Dr. Mollie Holmberg is a Postdoctoral Fellow working on the SSHRC-funded Autistic Knowledge Ecologies project. As a postdoc on this project, she is working to produce, amplify, and connect ecological knowledge opposed to eugenics. More broadly, she is interested in exploring how to center crip knowledge and politics in responses to political ecological crises. This

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Andrew Brasso

Andrew R. Basso

Andrew R. Basso is a political scientist who studies atrocity crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes) and political violence, international human rights laws and norms, transitional justice in theory and practice, and security and strategic studies. Dr. Basso’s research focusses specifically on processes of forced displacement as a method of atrocity perpetration, domicide

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Hamza Abdulbasit

Hamza Abdulbasit

Hamza Abdulbasit is a Canadian diplomat currently stationed in Washington D.C. where he covers the Middle East and South Asia.  From 2019-2023, he served as the Deputy Director for Iran and Yemen at Headquarters in Ottawa.  Prior to that, he was the Head of the Political Section at the Embassy of Canada in the United

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Dan Ciuriak

Dan Ciuriak

Dan Ciuriak is an economist with interests in international trade, innovation, and economic development. He has published widely as author and editor, within government and in a personal capacity. He concluded a 31-year career with the federal public service in 2008 as Deputy Chief Economist at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT).

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Shahriyar Nasirov

Shahriyar Nasirov

Shahriyar Nasirov holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Policy with a specialization in energy markets and has over 15 years of experience in the energy sector, particularly in Spain and Chile. He is currently an Associate Research Professor at the Center for Energy Transition (CENTRA UAI) at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI). Additionally, he is an

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Pegah Jamalof

Pegah Jamalof (PJ)

Pegah Jamalof (PJ) is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her research focuses on the United Nations’ Global Digital Compact and its implications for regulating social media companies, protecting human rights, and fostering multistakeholder collaboration. Her work examines the intersection of social media governance, corporate social responsibility, and

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Larissa Mockel

Larissa Möckel

Larissa Möckel is a graduate exchange student at the Balsillie School of International Affairs from the University of Konstanz, Germany, where she studies in the Master program of Politics and Public Administration since 2023. She holds a Bachelor degree with distinction in Politics and Public Administration from the University of Konstanz, where she graduated in

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