- June 3, 2020
China, Canada & the World: Bilateral Relations and Geopolitical Consequences
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The Global Risk Institute (GRI) hosted Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, Senior Fellow, Institute for Science, Society, and Policy at the University of Ottawa, as part of its webinar series, “Managing Risk Through and After the Pandemic.” The event focused on the geopolitical dynamics at play between China, Canada and the larger world. In her prepared remarks, Margaret spoke to:
Topics raised in the question & answer period included:
Margaret McCuaig-Johnston
Senior Fellow, Institute for Science, Society and Policy, University of Ottawa
Senior Fellow, China Institute, University of Alberta
Distinguished Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Margaret McCuaig-Johnston is Senior Fellow in the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa where she is lecturing and writing on China’s innovation policies since 2013. In addition, she is a Senior Fellow at the China Institute of the University of Alberta where she has published research on China’s innovation system and Canada-China S&T relations. In 2018 she accepted an invitation to be a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada where she has published on China’s incubators for start-up companies, as well as Research Associate at the Center for China Innovation Research & Training at Duke University in Kunshan. Margaret is a former Executive Vice-President at the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and has served as an Assistant Deputy Minister at the federal Department of Finance and Natural Resources Canada. Margaret’s op-eds and interviews have been published in the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Star, the Ottawa Citizen, the BBC, CBC, CTV, Global News, Bloomberg BNN, and Radio Free Asia among others.