Golam Dastagir, Visiting Scholar (CSAS), is a Professor of Philosophy at Jahangirnagar University in Bangladesh. He holds a PhD in philosophy and religion from the University of Hull in England. His research areas of interest include, Chinese and Japanese Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Ancient Western Philosophy, Sufism, Comparative Word Religions and Interfaith Dialogues.

Jennifer Hsu, Visiting Scholar (AI), received her PhD in Developmental Studies from the University of Cambridge in 2009. Her research focuses on the relationship between the Chinese state and migrant non-governmental organizations. Her dissertation is entitled, “State-society relations in China: A case-study of migrant civil society organizations in Beijing and Shanghai”.

Norihito Kubota, Visiting professor (AI, Department of Political Science, and the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies), is an assistant professor at the National Defense Academy in Japan. His current research projects focus on Civil-Military Coordination and Historical Analyses of the Evolution of the International System.

Dong-Hwi Lee, Visiting Scholar (AI & G8 Research Group), holds a PhD in international relations from Northwestern University in Chicago. He is currently a professor of foreign affairs at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security in Seoul Korea, a branch of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea. His research interests include the changing strategic environment of East Asia, the future of the U.S.-Korea Alliance, and the resolution of North Korean Nuclear Problem. At the Munk Centre, he will continue his research on the G20.

Jessica Li, Visiting Scholar (AI), received her doctoral degrees from the University of Toronto and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her major research areas are on modern Chinese literature and films, Hong Kong studies, gender studies, comparative literature, translation theories, feminine in Chinese culture and Asian Canadian experience.

James Manicom, Visiting Doctoral Fellow (AI) recently completed his PhD at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. His dissertation examined maritime territorial disputes between China and Japan. His research interests include Asian international relations and strategic studies, energy security, nationalism and territorial disputes; the latter three in particular as they relate to the Canadian Arctic.

Mariam Mufti, Visiting Doctoral Fellow (CSAS), is a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her research focuses on political parties and state/society mediation in Pakistan. She obtained her Masters in political science from Johns Hopkins University.

Bharat Punjabi, Visiting Doctoral Fellow (CSAS), is a PhD Candidate in Geography from the University of Western Ontario. His current research on water politics in the Mumbai region is the outcome of a year long field trip to Thane district, India in 2008-09. The research also involved archival work in various libraries in India, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Hong Loan Trinh, Visiting Doctoral Fellow (AI & Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance), is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Liege in Belgium. Her thesis and research focus on solutions to the real property taxation reform in Vietnam. Prior to these studies, she was a Lecturer in the Banking and Finance Department at the Hanoi Economics University in Vietnam.

Toshiko Tsujimoto, Post-doctoral Fellow (CSK), holds a PhD in sociology from Sung Kong Hoe University in Korea. She is a Research Fellow at the Center for Multilingual Multicultural Education and Research at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.