Speaker

Christina L. Davis

Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs


Christina L. Davis is the Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics in the Department of Government and Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University. Her research interests include the politics and foreign policy of Japan, East Asia, and the European Union as well as the study of international organizations and trade policy. Her research has been published in leading political science journals. She is the author of Food Fights Over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization (Princeton University Press 2003), and Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO (Princeton University Press 2012, winner of the international law best book award of the International Studies Association, Ohira Memorial Prize, and co-winner of Chadwick Alger Prize). Her most recent book, Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations, was published by Princeton University Press in 2023. She graduated from Harvard College in 1993, received her PhD in government from Harvard in 2001, and returned to Harvard after 16 years as a professor at Princeton University.

Peter A. Hall

Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University


Peter A. Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies in the Department of Government at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. His previous positions include Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center and Co-Director of the CIFAR Program on Successful Societies. Hall is editor of The Politics of Representation in the Global Age (with W. Jacoby, J. Levy and S. Meunier), Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era and Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health (with Michèle Lamont), Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make (with P. Culpepper and B. Palier), Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (with David Soskice), The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism across Nations, Developments in French Politics I and II (with A. Guyomarch and H. Machin), European Labor in the 1980s, the author of Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France and Political Change and Electoral Coalitions in Western Democracies (with G. Evans and S.I. Kim) as well as more than a hundred articles on European politics, policy-making, and comparative political economy. He has served on the editorial boards of many journals and the advisory boards of several European institutes. He is currently working on the political response to economic challenges in postwar Europe, the economic and cultural roots of populism, and the impact of social institutions on inequalities in health and well-being.

Thomas Juneau

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa


Thomas Juneau is associate professor at the University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. His research focuses on the Middle East, especially on Iran and Yemen, on the role of intelligence in national security and foreign policy making, and on Canadian foreign and defence policy. He is a non-resident fellow with the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies. From 2003 until 2014, he worked with Canada’s Department of National Defence, mostly as a policy analyst covering the Middle East.

Joshua D. Kertzer

John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Government, Harvard University
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University


Joshua D. Kertzer is the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Government, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research specializes in the intersection of international security, political psychology, foreign policy, and public opinion. He is the author of Resolve in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2016) and Abstraction in Experimental Design: Testing the Tradeoffs (Cambridge University Press, 2023), along with articles appearing in a variety of academic journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Foreign Affairs, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Politics, and World Politics. His scholarship has received a range of awards, including the International Studies Association’s Karl Deutsch Award, the International Society of Political Psychology’s Alexander George and Jim Sidanius awards, and the American Political Science Association's Merze Tate and Kenneth N. Waltz awards, among others. At Harvard, he teaches classes on American foreign policy, international relations theory, and political psychology in international politics, for which he received Harvard’s Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Pierre Martin

Professor of Political Science, Université de Montréal
Research Associate, CÉRIUM


Pierre Martin is a professor of political science at the Université de Montréal and a research associate at CÉRIUM. His work centers on U.S. politics, international relations, international political economy and public opinion analysis. He has published five books and more than eighty articles or chapters. In 1999-200, he was the William Lyon Mackenzie King visiting associate professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard. In 2008, he was a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, D.C. Since 2015, he writes a weekly column, mostly on US and international politics, in the Journal de Montréal and the Journal de Québec. He studied as an undergraduate at Université Laval and the University of British Columbia, and obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University.

Yves Tiberghien

Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia
Konami Chair and Director, Center for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia


Yves Tiberghien (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2002; Harvard Academy Scholar 2006; Fulbright Scholar 1996) is a Professor of Political Science and Director Emeritus of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. He is also the Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research and Director of the Center for Japanese Research at UBC. He is currently on study leave from UBC and a visiting professor at the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science (2023-2024). Yves is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada and a Senior Fellow at the University of Alberta’s China Institute. He is an International Steering Committee Member at Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD) and a visiting professor at Tokyo University and Sciences Po Paris. He has held other visiting positions at National Chengchi University (Taipei), GRIPS (Tokyo), and the Jakarta School of Public Policy (Indonesia). In June-November 2022, he served as Member of Canada’s Advisory Committee on the Indo-Pacific Strategy of Canada to the Foreign Minister. In November 2017, he was made a Chevalier de l’ordre national du mérite by the French President. His research focuses on the comparative political economy of East Asia and on global economic and environmental governance. His latest book is The East Asian Covid-19 Paradox. August 2021. University Press (with post-2021 updates found here), with work forthcoming on a new book (titled Game-Changer: How Covid-19 Has Reshaped Societies and Politics in East Asia). He is working on two other books, respectively titled Up for Grabs: Disruption, Competition, and the Remaking of the Global Order and Navigating the Age of Disruption: Options in a Shifting Global Order. He is also leading a research project on the political economy of the twin industrial revolutions (digital/AI and green tech). His previous books include Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea (2007, Cornell University Press); L’Asie et le futur du monde (2012, Paris: Science Po Press); and Leadership in Global Institution-Building: Minerva’s Rule (2013, edited volume, Palgrave McMillan). In 2020, he edited an online collection of papers on Japan’s leadership in the Liberal International Order. In 2023, he edited an online collection of short papers on the political economy of the twin industrial revolutions (AI and green tech) in Japan and East Asia. He has published articles and book chapters on the political economy of Japan and China, global governance, global climate change politics, and the governance of agricultural biotechnology. Dr. Tiberghien co-founded the Vision 20 initiative in 2015, a new coalition of global scholars and policy-makers aiming at providing a long-term perspective on the challenges of global economic and environmental governance.

Jennifer M. Welsh

Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security, McGill University
Director, Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS)


Jennifer M. Welsh is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at McGill University and director of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS). She was previously Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict. From 2013-2016, she served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, on the Responsibility to Protect. Jennifer has published several books and articles on the ethics and politics of armed conflict, the ‘responsibility to protect’, humanitarian action and civilian protection, the UN Security Council, and Canadian foreign policy. Her most recent edited collection, The Individualization of War, is based on a five-year European Research Council Advanced Grant project investigating protection, liability, and accountability in contemporary armed conflict. Her 2016 book, The Return of History: Conflict, Migration and Geopolitics in the 21st Century, was based on her CBC Massey Lectures. Jennifer is co-chair of the Committee on Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and sits on the Boards of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. Her research and policy engagement have been recognized through her election as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and as International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.