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Kara Abramson is a visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo. Memo #217

Broghen Aitkin is a Researcher and International Development Practitioner. During Broghen's tenure as a Master of Arts - Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) student, he travelled to Nepal to conduct research on post-conflict policymaking. Memo #139

Avram Agov is an Instructor at the Asian Studies Department of Langara College. He completed his PhD at the History Department of UBC and is now working on a manuscript, entitled “North Korea in the Socialist World, 1945-1991.” Memo #351

Mobashar Jawed Akbar is a well-known Indian journalist and author and former Editorial Director of India Today, India’s leading English news magazine. Memo #225

Muhammad Mustafa Alam is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh with a special research interest in water resource management. Memo #265

Daniel P. Aldrich is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. Memo #137

Jeffrey Alexander is an Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Dr. Alexander teaches Modern Japanese History and studies Japan's industrial and commercial transformation since 1870. Memo #37 (Video)

Justin Alger is a doctoral candidate majoring in international relations with a focus on global environmental politics at the University of British Columbia. Memo #395

Nicola Marae Allain is an assistant professor at SUNY Empire State College with research interests in digital media, emerging technologies, and civil society. Her research and creative work include a focus on French Polynesian culture and society. Memo #214

Nathan Allen holds a PhD in political science and is now a Post-Graduate Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He examines the Indonesian party system in the forthcoming issue of Pacific AffairsMemo #38, Memo #86, Memo #146, Memo #282

Kelly Alley is a Professor of Anthropology at Auburn University and author of, On the Banks of the Ganga: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River (2002). Memo #120, Memo #170

Dibyesh Anand is an Associate Professor in International Relations at London's University of Westminster. Memo #160

Dr. Ming-Chee Ang is a political scientist and a senior analyst at the Penang Institute, Malaysia. Memo #174

Leonora C. Angeles is an Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of British Columbia and principal investigator of the SSHRC Partnership Development project, “Collaborative Governance of Urbanizing Watersheds: Integrated Research, Institution- and Capacity-Building for Sustainability and Climate Risk Adaptation in Angat River Region, Philippines.” Memo #251, Memo #252

Georgios A. Antonopoulos is a Reader in Criminology at Teesside University, UK. Memo #187

Nausheen Anwar - Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, Department of Social Sciences, Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, Pakistan. Memo #100, Memo #206

Asim Arun is a Inspector General of Police in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh with prior service in several large and sensitive districts of Uttar Pradesh, in which capacities he has been heavily involved in disaster mitigation. Memo #250, Memo #327

Isozaki Atsuhito is an assistant professor at Keio University, is a leading expert on research into North Korea’s politics based on a detailed analysis of the country’s state-run media. Memo #300

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Naghmeh Babaee is a PhD candidate in Second Language Education at the University of Manitoba. Memo #227

Alison Bailey is the Director, Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Memo #71

Alifa Bandali is a graduate student in the Master of Arts-Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) program at the University of British Columbia. Memo #44

Jan Bardsley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Memo #199

Denea Bascombes is a student in the University of British Columbia’s Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs program. Memo #352

Marie-Pier Baril is a second year student in the Master of Arts - Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) program at the University of British Columbia. Memo #258

Robert Bedeski is a Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor in the department of Political Science, The University of Victoria. Memo #209

Daniel Bell is the Zhiyuan Chair Professor of Arts and Humanities at Shanghai Jiaotong University and professor of political theory and director of the Centre for International and Comparative Political Theory at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Memo #59

Kieran Bergmann - Google Policy Fellow at the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. She previously worked at the Canadian Embassy to Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos. Memo #193

David Block-Schachter is a Research Associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT focused on transportation policy, planning, and operations. He holds Master of Science, Master of City Planning, PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University. Memo #215 

Matthew J. Bock is a MAAPPS alumni and former visiting researcher at CSIS. Founder of Adaptive Energy Solutions. He currently resides in Jakarta, Indonesia writing political risk analysis and developing bioenergy projects. Memo #163, Memo #317

Dr. Mandakranta Bose is a professor emerita at the Institute of Asian Research (IAR) at UBC. Memo #31 (Video)

Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University. Memo #74 (Video), Memo #85 (Video)

Brianna Botchwey  is a  graduate student in International Relations and Politics at Cambridge University and a fellow at the Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia. Memo #241

Paul Bowles is a Professor, Department of Economics, University of Northern British Columbia. Memo #89, Memo #91

Robert S. Boynton is the author of The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea’s Abduction Project (FSG, 2016) and The New New Journalism (Vintage, 2005) He directs NYU’s Literary Reportage program, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, and elsewhere. Memo #360.

Aadil Brar is a senior undergraduate student and research assistant in the Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia. He has been working on an ethnographic field project on visual culture and the ethnic politics of Sikkim. Memo #361.

Jonathan Brasnett is a graduate student in the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. Memo #358

Timothy Brook  Republic of China Chair in Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Memo #21, Memo #107

Léo-Thomas Brylowski is an undergraduate student majoring in Asian studies with a focus on Korean language and culture at the University of British Columbia. Memo #391

Tim Bunnell is an Associate Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. Memo #83, Memo #255

Charles Burton is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Brock University, Canada. Memo #381

Dalaibuyan Byambajav is a PhD student in Sociology at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, studying civil society dynamics in Mongolia. Memo #87

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Elena Caprioni is a Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Memo #57, Memo #207

Joseph Caron is a Honorary Professor, Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Former senior public servant and diplomat with ambassadorial postings in Japan, China, and India. Memo #66 (Video)

Danielle Cave is a Research Associate, Myer Foundation Melanesia program, Lowy Institute for International Policy. Memo #194

Gerald Chan  is a professor in the Department of Political Studies at The University of Auckland where he researches Chinese International Relations. Memo #230

Melissa Chan is the John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, and former China correspondent for Al Jazeera. Memo #221

Chee Heng Leng  is a Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Memo #133

Timothy Cheek is the Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Memo #13, Memo #28 (Text and Video), Memo #34 (Video), Memo #73

Nick Cheesman is a PhD candidate, Department of Political & Social Change, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University. Memo #84

Kai Chen is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Non-Traditional Security and Peaceful Development Studies, College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, China. Memo #198, Memo #312, Memo #324

Ted Chen is a student, Master of Arts - Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) (Security Stream). Memo #19

Xi Chen is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China (Cambridge, 2012). Memo #183

Tun-jen Cheng is the Class of 1935 Professor, Government, The College of William & Mary. Memo #67 (Video)

Andrew Chubb is a PhD candidate in political science and international relations at the University of Western Australia, studying the relationship between domestic Chinese public opinion and PRC foreign policy. Memo #384

Erin Aeran Chung is the Charles D. Miller Assistant Professor of East Asian Politics and Co-Director of Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship Program in the Department of Political Science at the John Hopkins University. Memo #56

Jonathan T. Chow is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau. Memo #380

Ken Coates is the Professor of History and Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo. Memo #125 (Video), Memo #130 (Video)

Andrew Cock  is a research fellow of the Monash Asia Institute and Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University.  He focuses on business and politics in Southeast Asia and, at a global level, on the nexus between agriculture, energy and climate change. Memo #29

J. Michael Cole is a Taipei-based Senior Non-Resident Fellow with the University of Nottingham’s China Policy Institute, an Associate Researcher with the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) and editor in chief of www.thinking-taiwan.com, a political analysis web site hosted by the Thinking Taiwan Foundation. Memo #359

Francis Leo Collins is a lecturer in Urban Geography in the School of Environment at the University of Auckland. Memo #151

Claude Comtois - Professor, Department of Geography, Université de Montréal. Memo #155 (Video)

Anna Costa is a Hong Kong Fellowship Scheme PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong. Memo #204

Melissa Crouch is a Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Memo #141

Cesi Cruz is an Assistant Professor, University of British Colombia; a political economy scholar whose work focuses on the interplay between electoral incentives and economic outcomes in consolidating democracies. Memo #325

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Anna Dall was awarded a PhD for her thesis "A Cross-National, Comparative Study of Cultural Factors Underpinning 15-Year Old Students’ Performance in Reading Literacy in Finland, Sweden and Indonesia." She currently resides in Indonesia. Memo #175

Peter Dauvergne is a professor of international relations specializing in global environmental politics at the University of British Columbia. Memo #395

Lyle De Souza is a visiting scholar at the Centre for Japanese Research, UBC. His research interests include Japanese cultural studies and literature of modern Japanese diasporas. Memo #210

Julian Dierkes is an Associate Professor, Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Memo #2, Memo #15, Memo #43, Memo #52, Memo #87, Memo #106, Memo #161Memo #168, Memo #181 (Video), Memo #271 (Video) Guest editor for Theme: "100 Years after the Xinhai Revolution"

Brett Dimond is a graduate student at the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), UBC. He is a member of the SSHRC-funded research project Collaborative Governance of Urbanizing Watersheds: Integrated Research, Institution, and Capacity-building for Sustainability and Climate-risk Adaptation in the Angat River Basin, Philippines. Memo #286

Hugo Dobson is a Professor, National Institute of Japanese Studies and School of East Asian Studies, The University of Sheffield. Memo #117

Assa Doron is from the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. Memo #177

Earl Drake was a Canadian Ambassador in Beijing in 1989. Appointed Honorary Professor in Residence at the Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Memo #59

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Dur-e-Aden is a MA student in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Memo #284, Memo #305, Memo #323

Leif-Eric Easley is Assistant Professor in the Division of International Studies at Ewha Womans University (Seoul, Korea) and a Research Fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Memo #380

David W. Edgington is an Associate Professor, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia. He teaches courses on Japan and the Pacific Rim. Memo #40 (Video), Memo #65 (Video), Memo #72 (Video), Memo #98

Rob Efird is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Social Work at Seattle University. Memo #245

Justin Elavathil is currently a Post-Graduate Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Memo #43, Memo #192

Theressa Etmanski is a dual Master of Arts-Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS)/law student at The University of British Columbia. She recently completed an internship in the Victims Support Section of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Memo #129

Paul Evans is a professor of Asian and trans-Pacific international relations at UBC, former director of the Institute for Asian Research, and a CEO Emeritus of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Memo #1, Memo #45, Memo #99, Memo #171, Memo #291 (Video)

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Kazi Fahmida Farzana is a social scientist, has been working on the Rohingya community since 2007. She is at present based at the University Utara Malaysia in Malaysia. Memo #285

Rosemary Foot is a Professor of International Relations, and the John Swire Senior Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University. Memo #222

Kazuya Fukuoka is an Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Saint Joseph's University. Memo #144.

Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are translators of numerous volumes of modern Korean fiction, including the award-winning women’s anthology Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers (Seal Press, 1989) and, with Marshall R. Pihl, Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction, rev. and exp. ed. (M.E. Sharpe, 2007).  Their most recent translations are The Moving Fortress by Hwang Sunwŏn (MerwinAsia, 2015), the graphic novel Moss by Yoon Taeho (serialized at the Huffington Post, 2015-present), and several entries in the ASIA Publishers bilingual editions of modern Korean short fiction. Bruce is the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. Memo #365.

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Matthew Gaudreau is a graduate student at the University of Ottawa's School of International Development and Global Studies. Memo #143

Stephanie Geertman is an independent researcher on urban Vietnam, studying the everyday politics of urban space appropriation as it concerns the tactics of the informal housing sector (PhD, TU Eindhoven, 2007), youth (post-doctoral fellow, INRS Montreal, 2013–2015), and the creative sector (since 2015). Memo #385

Karl Gerth is a Oxford University historian of modern China and former Peter Wall Institute Visiting Researcher at The University of British Columbia. Memo #49

Sheri L. Gibbings is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Memo #109 (Video)

Benjamin A.T. Graham is an Assistant Professor, University of Southern California; studies foreign investment and political risk in emerging markets. Memo #325.

Ying Guo is a graduate student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Memo #374.

Subhashish Gupta is an Associate professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Memo #202

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Georgios T. Halkias is an Assistant Professor of Buddhism at the Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong.  Since 2009 he has been  a Fellow at the Oxford Centre of Buddhist Studies. Memo #263 (Video)

Glen Hamburg  is a MA student in Asia Pacific Policy Studies at the University of British Columbia, and visiting research scholar at the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, Kolkata, India. Memo #231

Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. Memo #197

Wajihah Hamid is a research assistant with the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. Memo #260

Robert Hanlon is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. He teaches human security at Simon Fraser University and is an Associate Faculty member at Royal Roads University. Memo #16Memo #26Memo #53

Simon Harding is a PhD candidate in Resource Management and Environmental Studies in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. Memo #220, Memo #329

John Harriss is a professor and former Director of the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University where he specializes in Indian politics, civil society, and political economy. Memo #296, Memo# 297

Jingkai He is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Memo #382

Joel Heng Hartse is a PhD candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, focusing on second language writing, world Englishes, and sociocultural aspects of English in China, and an instructor in the UBC-Ritsumeikan University Academic Exchange Program. Memo #261

Jack Hayes is a Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Norwich University. Memo#112. Guest Editor for Theme: "Water, Scarcity, and the Frontiers on the Tibetan Plateau"

Ruth Hayhoe works at the Department of Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Memo #159 (Video), Memo #162 (Video)

Ryan Hile is an undergraduate student, Department of Geology and geography, Auburn University. Memo #170

Akiko Hirao is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on modern Japanese science fiction. Memo #404

Lisa Hoffman was trained as a cultural anthropologist and is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. Memo #266

Philip Holden is a Professor of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore. Memo #179

Waibin Huang is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics, Zhejiang University City College, China. Memo #382

Mikko Huotari is a Research Associate at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin. Memo #316

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Muhamad Takiyuddin Ismail - Senior Lecturer at the School of History, Politics and Strategy, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia. Memo #197

Shota Iwasaki is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. Memo #375.

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Mendee Jargalsaikhan is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, and a graduate of  the Master of Arts – Asia Pacific Policy Studies program (MAAPPS). Memo #11, Memo #87, Memo #161, Memo #169, Memo #200, Memo #249, Memo #301, Memo #318, Memo #355

Robin Jeffrey works at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Memo #177

Xue-Rong Jia is a recent graduate of the MA – Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) at the Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Memo #262

Wenran Jiang is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta and senior fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Memo #105

Dal Yong Jin is an Associate Professor in the School of Communications and Director of the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST) at Simon Fraser University. His major research interests include globalization and media, Korean cinema,  and the political economy of media and culture. He is the author of three books, most recently De-Convergence of Global Media Industries (Routledge, 2013). Memo #248

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Daniel Kane received his MA in Korean History at the University of Hawaii, where he also served as the Korea Specialist Librarian. Memo #293

Hee-Ryong Kang teaches curriculum theory and evaluation in School of Education, Chonbuk University, South Korea. Memo #184

Takehiko Kariya is a Professor in the Sociology of Japanese Society, at Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. Memo #43, Memo #105

Jason G. Karlin is an Associate Professor in the Interfaculty Initiative in Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. Memo #205

Dr. Azilah Kasim is a visiting associate professor at the Institute of Asian Research. She is from Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia. She is a cited author who has researched and published quite extensively in the area of CSR and Marketing. Memo #176

Roleff Kråkström is the Managing Director of Moomin Characters Ltd. Memo #370.

Etsuko Kato is a Senior Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. Memo #94

Dr. Masahiro Kawai  is the Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute. Memo #238

Tsuyoshi Kawasaki is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Asia-Canada Program at Simon Fraser University. Memo #189

Keshav Kelkar is a graduate student in the Master of Arts-Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) program at the University of British Columbia. Memo #272

Husaina Kenayathulla is a PhD candidate, Education Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University. Fellow, Educational Management, Planning & Policy, University Malaya, Malaysia. Memo #126

Jinsung Kim is a PhD student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on international relations in East Asia in the late 19th century. Memo #399

Ji Young Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Area Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. Memo #394

Nora Hui-Jung Kim is an Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Mary Washington. Memo #127

Matthew King is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Toronto. Memo #233

Lucas Knight is a sophomore at Western Kentucky University. Memo #377

Masaru Kohno is a Professor in the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. Memo #35 (Video)

Alexander Korolev is a Research Fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore. Memo #341.

Daniel Kremers is a Senior research fellow at the German Institute of Japanese Studies in Tokyo. Memo #343

Abidin Kusno is a CRC Chair in Asian Urbanism and Culture, Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Memo #20

Justin Kwan is a graduate of the Master of Arts Candidate in Asia Pacific Policy Studies at the University of British Columbia. His research examines national identity in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Memo #353, Memo #354, Memo #389.

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Andrei Lankov is a Professor in Korean Studies at Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea.  Memo #201

Prod Laquian is a Professor Emeritus of human settlements planning at The University of British Columbia. Memo #122

Diana Lary is a Professor Emerita of History, The University of British Columbia. Memo #36 (Video)Memo #102Memo #167

Christian Laugen is a PhD student in the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia.  His research focuses on maternal and neonatal health services in Indonesia. Memo #226

Azalea Lee is a MA student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, with a focus on Korean literature and culture. Memo #401

Grégoire Legault is a Student in the Master of Arts - Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) program at the University of British Columbia and a Research Assistant in the Centre for Chinese Research. He recently completed an internship in public diplomacy at the Canadian embassy in Beijing. Memo #244, Memo #257, Memo #267, Memo #289, Memo #306, Memo #328

Thearith Leng is a Graduate student writing his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defense Force Academy (UNSW at ADFA). Memo #369.

Matthew Levine is a Canadian lawyer whose practice focuses on international trade and investment law. Memo #223, Memo #313

Sharon Lim is a University of British Columbia student affiliated with the Institute of Asian Research.  Memo #264

Johan Lindquist is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. Memo #78

Sonny Lo is the Head of Department of Social Sciences, Associate Dean (Research and Postgraduate Studies) of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Director of Centre for Governance and Citizenship, The Hong Kong Institute of Education. Memo #153

D. Gordon Longmuir  is the former Canadian Ambassador to Cambodia and is an Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. Memo #269

James Losari is an Indonesian lawyer and an LL.M. (Universidad de Barcelona) holder working with the Centre for International Law of the National University of Singapore. Memo #223

Kelvin Low is Associate Professor and Deputy Head at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.

Linda A. Lumayag is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  Memo #367

Hyung-Gu Lynn is the AECL/KEPCO Chair in Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Editor of Pacific AffairsMemo #4Memo #10, Memo #268, Memo #283, Memo #314, Memo #366, Memo #368, Memo #371, Memo #376, Memo #379, Memo #405

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Elizabeth MacArthur is a graduate student in the Masters of Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAPPS) program at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and a Fellow at UBC’s Institute of Asian Research. Memo #295

Geoffrey Macdonald is an Assistant Professor of political science at Grinnell College, Iowa, USA. In 2012-2013, he conducted research on Indian party politics as a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute of Social Sciences in New Delhi. Memo #178, Memo #292, Memo #317

Darrin Magee is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Director of Asian Environmental Studies Initiative. Memo#114

Jessica L. Main is the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation Chair in Buddhism and Contemporary Society, Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Memo #5, Memo #69

Jonathan Manthorpe is a Foreign correspondent for Canadian newspapers for nearly 40 years and specialised in reporting on Asia for over two decades (read some of his columns on international affairs here). Memo #288

Pascale Massot is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the The University of British Columbia. Memo #30, Memo, 195

Cristelle Maurin is an Associate at the Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Memo #228

Duncan McCargo is a Professor at the University of Leeds and Columbia University. Memo #180

Marc McCrum is a Master in Asia Pacific Policy Studies candidate at the University of British Columbia and a Research Assistant in the Sauder School of Business. He is currently working at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Memo #306

Ian McDonald is a post-graduate research fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Before joining the APFC, Ian served as an intern with the Canadian embassy in Myanmar. Memo #372

Patrick Messerlin is Professor Emeritus at Sciences Po Paris and Director of Groupe d’Economie Mondiale (GEM). Memo #390

Brandon Miliate is a graduate of the Master of Arts - Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) program, The University of British Columbia. Memo #168Memo #216, Memo #320

Jonathan Berkshire Miller is a fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies Pacific Forum and is a political and security analyst on Mongolia and the Asia-Pacific region with the Diplomat, which is based in Tokyo. Memo #173

Michelle Miller is a Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Memo #83, Memo #255

Carl Minzner is an Associate Professor of Law at the School of Law of Fordham University and an expert in Chinese law and governance, topics on which he has published extensively in both academic journals and the popular press. Memo #246

Antje Missbach is a senior research fellow at the Department of Anthropology at Monash University in Melbourne. She is interested in irregular migration and mobilities as well as people smuggling in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia. Memo #387

Chandana Mitra is an Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geography, Auburn University. Memo #170

Maznah Mohamad is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Memo #22

Sverre Molland is a Lecturer in Anthropology and Development at the Australian National University. Memo #157

Rennie J. Moon is an associate professor at the Underwood International College at Yonsei University with expertise in comparative education. Memo #386

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Karthik Nachiappan is a Research Associate at the Centre on Asia and Globalization in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore. Memo #51, Memo #90

Manjusha Nair is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Memo #196

Atsumi Nakao is a PhD student in the department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Memo #402

Higuchi Naoto is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Tokushima. Memo #145

Matthew Neckelmann is a candidate for a JD and MA in Asia Pacific Policy Studies at the University of British Columbia. Memo #234

Phuong Nguyen is a WSD-Handa Fellow at Pacific Forum CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) and Adjunct Fellow at CSIS. She is based in Washington, DC. Memo #388

Major Thomas G. Nielsen is an analyst at the Royal Danish Defence College. Memo #88

Stephen Noakes is lecturer in Chinese politics and foreign policy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Memo #25, Memo #381

Astrid Norén-Nilsson is an Associate Senior Lecturer at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University. Memo #392

Scott North is a professor of Sociology at Osaka University. Memo #273

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Dr. Liselotte Odgaard is an associate professor at the Royal Danish Defence College, and a research associate on the East Asian Peace program, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. Memo #88

Michael Oeckel received his BA in Asian Studies from Temple University, Japan Campus, and currently a student in the Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Policy Studies program at the University of British Columbia. Memo #203

Kai Ostwald is an assistant professor in the Institute of Asian Research and Department of Political Science, as well as the Director of the Centre for Southeast Asia Research, at the University of British Columbia.  Memo #310, Memo #322, Memo #340, Memo#342Memo #388

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Pacific Affairs is a peer-reviewed, independent, and interdisciplinary scholarly journal focusing on important current political, economic and social issues throughout Asia and the Pacific. Memos by Pacific Affairs

Richard Paisley is a Director, Global Transboundary International Waters Governance Initiative, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia. Memo #32

Amitendu Palit is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) in the National University of Singapore specializing in China-India comparative economic studies and political economy of development policies. Memo #172

Harsh V. Pant is a Department of Defence Studies at King's College London. Memo #64

Georgios Papanicolaou is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Teesside University, UK. Memo #197

Jimmyn Parc (Ph.D.) is a visiting lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and a research associate at the EU Center, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. Memo #390

Kyung-Ae Park is a Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Memo #27, Memo #54 (Video)

Rufina K. Park is a Paul Reynolds Post-Graduate Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and a graduate of Harvard University’s International Education Policy Master’s Program. Memo #348

Rev. Daniel Payne is the Pastor of Open Doors Community Church. Memo #270

Saadia M. Pekkanen is a Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor, Jackson School of International Studies; Adjunct Professor of Law; and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, at the University of Washington. Memo #154

Nicholas Phelps is an Professor of Urban and Regional Development, Faculty of Built Environment, University College London. Memo #83

Joe Philipps is an Associate Professor of Global Studies at Pusan National University. Memo #321

Jim Placzek an Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia and former Instructor in the Asian Studies Department at Langara College. Memo #62, Memo #303

Pitman Potter is an HSBC Chair in Asian Research (previously, the Hong Kong Bank Chair in Asian Research) at the Institute of Asian Research at The University of British Columbia. He's also a Professor of Law. Memo #93 (Video)

Giulio Pugliese is a lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He specializes in the politics, both domestic and international, of the Asia-Pacific with a focus on Japan, China and the United States. Memo #403

Promod Puri a native of the state of Jammu Kashmir, is the former editor and publisher of the South Asian Canadian weekly, The Link. He is now retired and residing in Vancouver, Canada. Memo #319

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Cyrus Huiyong Qiu - PhD student in the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. His research focuses on Japanese popular culture and its circulation among Japan, Korea and China. Memo #378

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Nelson Rand is a Canadian journalist based in Bangkok who has been covering insurgencies and political protests in Thailand for the past 6 years. Memo #14 (Video), Memo #60, Memo #80, Memo#113

Nimmi Rangaswamy is a Researcher with Microsoft Research Labs India, Bangalore. Memo #190

Anthony S. Rausch is a Professor at Hirosaki University, Japan. Memo #240

Christopher Rea is an Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature in the Department of Asian Studies, The University of British Columbia. Memo #48 (Video), Memo #182 (Interview), Memo #347

Julie Remoiville is a PhD in East Asian Studies from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE). Postdoctoral fellow in the Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités GSRL (EPHE/CNRS), located in Paris, France. Memo #344

Timothy S. Rich is an Assistant professor of political science at Western Kentucky University. His research focuses on electoral politics in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. Memo #77, Memo #277, #377

Jacob Ricks is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University where he specializes in Southeast Asian politics. Memo #362

Terence Roehrig - Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. Memo #61

Claudia Roselli is a PhD (2012) from the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi and the University of Florence. Memo #345

Joshua Roth is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College. Memo #158

Daromir Rudnyckyj is an Assistant Professor of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria. Memo #68

Josh Rudolph is MA student at the Institute of Asian Research, where he focuses on media policy and the changing media landscape in the Asia Pacific. He is also a contributing blogger at China Digital Times (chinadigitaltimes.net). Memo #213

Jürgen Rüland - Professor of Political Science at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Memo #316

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Alexandra Sakaki is Robert Bosch Foundation research fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, Germany. Memo #165

Krislert Samphantharak is an Associate Professor in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Memo #322

Philip Seaton is an Associate Professor in the Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University. Memo #152

Amartya Sen is recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. on April 21, 2011, received an honorary degree from The University of British Columbia. Memo #79 (Video), Memo #81 (Video)

Tsering Shakya is CRC Chair in Religion and Contemporary Society of Asia, Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Memo #55, Memo #103

Anqi Shen is Senior Lecturer in Law and Policing at Teesside University, UK. Memo #187

Rosa Hsuan-Ju Shih is a recent graduate of the master’s program in the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. Memo #304

Gi-Wook Shin is a Director of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. Memo #42, Memo #386

Apichai W. Shipper is Asia Regional Chair at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State and is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University.. Memo #111, Memo #357

Aim Sinpeng is a lecturer of comparative politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. Memo #8Memo #97, Memo #400

Margaret Skwara is an alumni, Master of Arts - Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS), The University of British Columbia. Currently a natural gas markets analyst based in Calgary, Canada. Memo #76

Hannah Smith is an MA Asia Pacific Policy Studies candidate and Fellow at the Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Memo #224, Memo #239

Jeyong Sohn is an associate professor in the College of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University. Memo #394

Key-young Son is a Humanities Korea Professor at the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University in Seoul, Korea. Memo #242

Song Jiyoung is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the School of Social Sciences of the Singapore Management University. Her current book project focuses on the nexus between irregular migration and human security in East Asia, using complexity theory. Memo #229

Weihong Song is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Alzheimer's Disease, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia. Memo #147 (Video)

Nick Stember completed his Master of Arts in Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia in 2015 and is a professional translator of Chinese literature and comics. Memo #396

Hugh Stephens is an Executive-in-Residence at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Mr. Stephens is Principal of Trans-Pacific Connections (www.tpconnections.com) – TPC Consulting, based in Victoria, BC. He has more than 35 years of government and business experience in the Asia region. He spent 30 years in senior positions at the Department of Foreign affairs and International Trade prior to moving to the private sector, in 2001, as manager of Time Warner’s public policy office for Asia Pacific located in Hong Kong. Memo #136 (Video)

Zhenhua Su is an associate professor in the College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, China. Memo #382

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Akio Takahara - professor at the University of Tokyo, Secretary-General of the “New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st Century,” a senior researcher at the Tokyo Foundation, and an adjunct fellow of the Japan Institute of International Affairs. Memo #253 (Video), Memo #254 (Video)

Yasuo Takao is Senior Lecturer of Political Science at the Department of Social Sciences and Security Studies, Curtin University. Memo #393

Nobuyoshi Takashima is a Professor Emertius at the University of the Ryukyus. Memo #350.

Keita Takayama teaches sociology of education in School of Education, University of New England, Australia. Memo #47 Memo #132 Memo #184

Joo Ean Tan teaches Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, where she works on social change in Southeast Asian societies. Memo #96

Netina Tan is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Memo #58, Memo #82, Memo #101

William Taylor is a Deputy Country Representative of The Asia Foundation in Vietnam. He formerly worked for the UK Department for International Development and Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Memo #211

Carly Teng is a Master in Asia Pacific Policy Studies candidate at the University of British Columbia and an Institute of Asian Research Fellow (2013 – 2014). Memo #356.

Ramesh Thakur is a professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, and former R2P Commissioner. Memo #281.

Sarah Thomas is a member of the Angat Collaborative Watershed Governance Project research group at The University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning. She recently completed her masters on a study of the environmental compliance of small and medium enterprises in Bustos, Bulacan, Philippines. Memo #243, Memo #299

Rian Thum is an Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University New Orleans. Memo #188

Yves Tiberghien is the Director of the Institute of Asian Research and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia; Executive Director of the China Council, and a Senior Fellow with the Global Summitry Project at the Munk School, University of Toronto. Memo #24, Memo #63, Memo#115, Memo#118, Memo #186, Memo #259, Memo #274. Guest Editor for Theme: “Asia at the 2011 Cannes G20."

Tomoko Tokunaga is a PhD Candidate in Education Policy Studies at the University of Maryland College Park, specializing in Socio-Cultural Foundations of Education. Memo #134

Tsering Topgyal is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Birmingham and author of The Insecurity Dilemma and the Sino-Tibetan Conflict (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2014). His paper, “Identity Insecurity and the Tibetan Resistance Against China,” appeared in the September 2013 issue of Pacific Affairs. Memo #247

Ian Townsend-Gault worked with Dr. Hasjim Djalal in 1989 to establish the track-two preventative diplomacy initiative Managing Potential Conflicts in the South China Sea. He is an Associate of the Centre for Southeast Asian Research of IAR, and Director of Southeast Asian Legal Studies at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, The University of British Columbia. Memo #7

Tashi Tsering is a PhD candidate in Resource Management and Environmental Studies, The University of British Columbia. Memo #110, Memo #164. Guest Editor for Theme: "Water, Scarcity, and the Frontiers on the Tibetan Plateau"

Jiong Tu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. Memo #278, Memo #279, Memo #309

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Elanah Uretsky is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Health at George Washington University. Memo #235

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Minna Valjakka is an Affiliated Fellow in the International Institute for Asian Studies and a Researcher in Art History at the University of Helsinki, specializing in urban creativity in East Asia.  Memo #346

Ezra Vogel - Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus. Harvard University. Memo #119 (Video), Memo#121 (Video)

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David Der-wei Wang is a Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University. Memo #70 (Video)

Meiqin Wang is an Associate Professor of Art History at California State University Northridge. Memo #346

Yifan Wang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, University of Essex. Memo #315

Sir David Warren has served as British Ambassador to Japan from 2008 to 2012. He is currently chairman of The Japan Society of the UK. Memo #212

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine, Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies, and author, most recently, of Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo, published later this month as a Penguin Special. Memo #363.

Thomas Wilkins is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. Memo #373.

Angela Wong is a student, Master of Arts - Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS), The University of British Columbia. Memo #75

Daniel Wood is a M.A. candidate in the Asia Pacific Policy Studies program at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Memo #294

John R. Wood is an Honorary Professor, Centre for India and South Asian Research, The University of British Columbia. Project Leader of the Millennial Development Goals Project at the Gujurat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India. Memo #156

Sophia Woodman is a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Law and teaches sociology at The University of British Columbia. Memo #12, Memo #150, Memo #307, Memo #308

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Biao Xiang is an university lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Memo #135 - Chinese translation here.

Xu Hongcai is a visiting scholar at the Institute and Professor in Finance and Deputy Director of the Information Department of China Center for International Economic Exchanges (加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学亚洲研究院访问学者,金融学教授,中国国际经济交流中心信息部副部长). Memo #128 - Chinese translation here.

Xu Xiaojie is the Director of the World Energy at the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Memo #236

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Akira Yamasaki is a professor of economics at Chuo University and Visiting Professor of UBC at Department of Geography. Memo #208

Heather Yang - graduate of Hanyang University (B.A.) in Political Science. Memo #321

Vickie Yau is a graduate in Asian Studies (M.A.), University of British Columbia and currently working and studying at the University of Hong Kong Memo #46

Gisèle Yasmeen - Senior Fellow at the University of British Columbia’s Institute of Asian Research. Memo #348

Yanyu Ye is a PhD candidate in the School of Public Affairs at Zhejiang University, China. Her research fields are social change and democratization. Memo #382

Brenda S.A. Yeoh - professor in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore Memo #133

Pichamon Yeophantong is an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow based in the Global Economic Governance Programme, University College, Oxford. Memo #228

Wei Lit Yew is a PhD candidate at the Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong. Memo #383

Joseph Yi is an assistant professor of political science at Hanyang University, Korea. Memo #270, Memo #321

Wang Yong is a Professor at School of International Studies and Director at Center for International Political Economy, Peking University. Memo#116

Sarah K. Youngblutt is a UBC MAPPS Alumni and PhD Candidate at the University of Leiden doing research on Angkorean temples (Cambodia) and UNESCO World Heritage. Memo #398

Henry Yu is the Principal, St. John’s College, The University of British Columbia; and Associate Professor, Department of History. Memo #104

Tim Yu is an undergraduate student at the University of Alberta. Memo #232

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Lukasz Zablonski is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University. Memo #219

Ayse Zarakol is Council on Foreign Relations /University of Cambridge. Memo #180

Jinhua Zhao is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, jointly appointed in the School of Community and Regional Planning and the Department of Civil Engineering. He holds Master of Science, Master of City Planning, PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s degree from Tongji University. He studies travel behavior and transportation policy, public transit management, and China’s urbanization and mobility. Memo #215

Yuezhi Zhao is a Canada Research Chair, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University. Author of China in Communication: Political Economy, Power, and Conflict. Memo #131