Veronica Kitchen (2011-12)
Veronica was in residence at the Liu Institute from July - December 2011. She is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and in the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her main research project during her time at the Institute concerned counter-terrorism institutions which integrate professionals across levels of government and between various parts of the security field (police, military, intelligence, and planning) in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. This research was supported by a SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2010-2012).
Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, she was a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre of International Relations at the University of British Columbia. She completed her Ph.D in political science at Brown University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, in 2006. She has an undergraduate degree in International Relations from Trinity College at the University of Toronto.
Ramprasad Sengupta (2011-12)
Professor Sengupta was in residence at the Liu Institute from October - November 2011. He is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Steel Authority of India, and as advisor in energy modeling for the federal government’s Indian Planning Commission. Prof. Sengupta has also held positions as Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, and a visiting professor or scholar at universities in Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and the US.
Dr. Sengupta’s research interests include:
- Energy, Resource and Environmental Economics, Human Development, and Ecological Issues of Sustainable Development;
- Mathematical Policy Modelling and Analysis for Energy, Environment and Infrastructural Sectors;
- Development Economics and Planning, Indian Economic Development, Economics of Infrastructural and Steel Sector, Globalisation and Institutional Issues.
Bruce Broomhall (2010-11)
Bruce Broomhall pursued research on resource conflicts under international law while based at the Liu Institute for Global Issues from July 2010 to June 2011. This work builds on collaborations he has conducted over recent years with legal and policy experts from a range of fields in attempting to craft effective legal and policy responses to the problem of illicit, conflict-fuelling natural resource economies.
A graduate of UBC, Dr. Broomhall is professor of law at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), where he teaches international, transnational and Canadian criminal law. His research encompasses a range of issues related to efforts to establish an effective and legitimate system of international justice, including universal jurisdiction, the International Criminal Court, the role of the emerging system of justice within the existing framework for managing international peace and security, the impact of illegal economies of war on human security, the legal responsibilities of business actors in conflict settings, and the role of children in the transitional justice process.
Kyla Tienhaara (2010-11)
Kyla held the position of Global Issues Visiting Scholar from September to December 2010.
Kyla is a postdoctoral fellow at the Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University. Kyla studied the scientific basis of contemporary environmental problems at the University of British Columbia before moving on to study international environmental law at the University of Nottingham. She spent four years at the Institute of Environmental Studies in Amsterdam, where she completed her PhD. Kyla is the volunteer co-coordinator of the Earth System Governance Fellows Network. Outside of academia, she has worked for a number of environmental non-governmental organizations.
Kyla’s main area of interest is the intersection between economic law and policy and environmental regulation. Her PhD focused on investor-state disputes concerning environmental regulation that were brought to international arbitration under bilateral and regional investment agreements. Her current project looks at the politics of ‘green’ stimulus measures produced by governments in the wake of the global financial crisis.
Wynet Smith (2010-11)
Wynet held the position of Liu Institute Visiting Scholar in Residence at Green College from September to December 2010.
As the Coordinator and Natural Resources Expert of the United Nations Security Council's Panel of Experts on Liberia since August 2007, she spent her time at the Institute coordinating the preparation and submission of the Panel of Expert’s report to the Security Council, which includes an assessment of the contribution of natural resources to peace, security and development in Liberia. Her research focusses on opportunities and challenges related to natural resources in post-conflict and peacebuilding contexts.
Wynet was a Lecturer in Geography at St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge from 2005-2008 and a Senior Research Associate at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC from 1999-2002. From 1995 to 1999, she held various lands and natural resources management positions with co-management and aboriginal organizations in northern Canada. She has also worked overseas in Africa and Asia. She has a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge, a MSc in Physical Geography from McGill University and a BA in English Literature from Concordia University.
Margaret Purdy
Margaret Purdy was an External Associate of the Security and Defence Forum Program at the Liu Institute for Global Issues and served as Principal Investigator with the Climate Change and Security Project.
During her 28 years with Canada's federal public service, Margaret held a wide range of policy, operational and senior management positions. Most of her work had a counter-terrorism focus, but she also provided leadership on transportation security, cyber security, emergency management, critical infrastructure protection, intelligence assessments and protective policing. She has published articles and book chapters on the security implications of climate change, the root causes of terrorism, the security of trade and transportation gateways, the role of diasporas in countering terrorism, and Canada’s counter-terrorism policy.
Andreas Schloenhardt (2008-09)
Andreas is a senior lecturer at The University of Queensland TC Beirne School of Law. Since 2007, has been an Adjunct Professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, and in 2008 he was a Visiting Professor at The University of British Columbia Liu Institute for Global Issues, Vancouver.
His principal areas of research include criminal law, organised crime, narcotrafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, terrorism, international criminal law, and immigration and refugee law. His recent work focuses on organised crime legislation, the illicit trade in timber and timber products, the illicit market for amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS), and the plight of North Korean Refugees in China. His work is frequently cited by other scholars, in government publications, and judicial decisions, including the High Court of Australia.
Nahla Valji (2009-10)
Nahla was in residence at the Liu Institute from November 2009 - January 2010. She holds a BA from the University of British Columbia and an MA in International Relations and a Joint Diploma in Forced Migration Studies from York University, Toronto. She is currently a Senior Project Manager in the Transitional Justice Programme in Cape Town where she manages the African Transitional Justice Research Network, a network which focuses on building capacity amongst researchers and transitional justice activists on the African continent to inform, monitor, and conduct advocacy concerning transitional justice policies in their countries. She is also the Managing Editor of the International Journal of Transitional Justice, published by Oxford University Press.
Nahla was previously Gender Project Officer and Researcher at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, where she conducted training for South African parliamentarians on gender budgetary analysis in policy making. Prior to this she was employed as a Researcher at the Community Agency for Social Enquiry in Johannesburg.
