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Interim Director (July 2023-June 2025)

• Dr. Walter Davis

Administrative Assistant

• Ms. Rei Kondo

Administrative Board

• Dr. Marie Carrière, Vice-Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts (Chair)
• Dr. Daniel Fried, Chair, Department of East Asian Studies
• Dr. Sandra Bucerius, Director, Centre for Criminological Research

Advisory Council

• Dr. Robert Wood, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta (Chair)
• Ms. Christine Nakamura, Vice-President, Central Canada Office, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
• Mr. L. Philippe Rheault, Director, China Institute, University of Alberta
• Dr. David Welch, President of Japan Futures Initiative, Chair of Global Security at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Professor, the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo

Research Committee

• Dr. Eric Adams, Professor, Faculty of Law
• Mr. L. Philippe Rheault, Director, China Institute, University of Alberta
• Dr. Carla Peck, Professor, Faculty of Education
• Dr. Merek Michalak, Department of Biochemistry