Kiara Yllescas is a student at the Balsillie Student of International Affairs in the Master of International Public Policy. Kiara graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2021 with a BA in Communications and English, specializing in Digital Media and minoring in Spanish. At Wilfrid Laurier University, Kiara actively engaged in the campus community by participating […]
Professor Appleton’s research examines international digital trade legal frameworks.
Dr. Artie Ng brings an interdisciplinary research focus on sustainability performance and the low-carbon economy. He began his professional career in project finance for energy initiatives with multinational firms across the Asia-Pacific region, before transitioning to academia. His academic portfolio spans university teaching, policy research, and program development. Dr. Ng has published extensively in high-impact
Mark Humphries is a Professor of History and the former Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has published six books and more than two dozen articles on digital history, Canadian history, the history of public health, and military history. Mark has been programming since he was a kid
Shereen El Feki has more than two decades of experience in advancing social and behavioral change in challenging political and cultural contexts, with a focus on global public health, HIV, sexualities and gender equality. Shereen is the former Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa at UNAIDS, leading the HIV response across 19 countries
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
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
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
Dr. Zard is examining the governance frameworks of browser-based online advertising solutions that are currently being developed as the alternative to traditional advertising models allowing cross-site surveillance.
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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
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
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
