The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada: Post-Graduate Fellowships, Research, Analysis, and YOU
An information session
Wednesday, 24 September 2008 * 2:30 to 3:30pm * 390 York Lanes, York University

We often hear about “Asia rising,” but in many ways, Asia has already risen. Canada is an Asia-Pacific country, and Canadians have a vested interest in being at the forefront of contemporary Asia studies. As the nation’s leading independent think-tank on Asia and Canada-Asia relations, the Asia Pacific Foundation (APF) works hard to ensure timely, accurate, and relevant research and analysis is produced to help guide and influence the direction of public policy, research, and business decisions through its vast networks.

This informal talk will speak briefly about some of the major projects the APF works on, but the overall purpose is to help raise awareness of the APF as a source of information for graduate students and more specifically, to explain the Post-Graduate Research Fellowship Program through which successful applicants spend a year working in our think-tank environment, participating in roundtable discussions, presenting research, and producing a policy paper to be considered for publication as a Canada-Asia Commentary.

The Asia Pacific Foundation (APF) is Canada’s leading independent think-tank on contemporary Asia and Canada-Asia relations. The APF brings together the academic, business, and policy community to facilitate dialogue on political, social, economic, and security issues of importance to Canada and the Asia-Pacific more generally. Established by an Act of Parliament in 1984, the APF is a not-for-profit organization with headquarters based out of downtown Vancouver, BC.

The information sessions will be presented by Ajay Parasram, a Post-Graduate Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He was educated at Dalhousie University, the University of British Colombia, and Carleton University where he received an MA in Political Science specializing in Asian International Relations and sub-regional integration in South/Southeast Asia. Ajay comes to the Asia Pacific Foundation from the Canada Border Services Agency in Ottawa where he worked as a researcher focusing on long-term Commercial Border Policy. His research interests surround the opportunities and challenges of multiculturalism in Canada and foreign policy. Internationally, he is interested in Asian contributions to International Relations theory and practice, normative challenges emerging from the collision of spaces in an era of rapid globalization(s), and the political economy of regionalism.

The information session is hosted by the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR).

For more information, contact YCAR at ycar@yorku.ca or 416.735.5821.

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