Zack Ahmed is a PhD candidate (ABD) in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His research examines South-South migration, urban food systems, governance, and household food security in the Global South. His dissertation investigates how migrants navigate food insecurity within informal economies, constrained governance environments, and transnational networks of support. Through survey […]
Ana Visan is a PhD candidate in Global Governance. Her interests lie at the intersection of critical border studies, science and technology studies, and migration governance. Her project looks at how the EU is using technology to achieve interoperability in migration management. Ana completed a Master’s degree in Global Migration at University College London. Her
Eric Tanguay is a PhD candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, specializing in conflict and security. His primary research interests include post-conflict peace processes, the role of traditional and religious institutions in African security governance, and the protection of civilians in peacekeeping operations. Eric’s dissertation investigates the potential of “Infrastructures for Peace”— multilevel
Yazgulu Sezgin is a PhD student at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University. Her interests are centered around migration policies, refugee protection, gender equality and social cohesion. Yazgulu holds a Master of Law in International Law from the University of Kent where her research focused on legal instruments on human trafficking. She has
Nico Saunders is a Ph.D. Candidate and Doctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, through the University of Waterloo. Her research explores the impact of UNESCO on urban security governance of World Heritage Cities, with particular focus on policy mainstreaming and urban militarization. This research also examines the aesthetic paradox of countering terrorism and
Madeleine Pinard is a doctoral candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on creating environmental migration governance to mitigate human conflict. Madeleine Pinard completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto where she studied peace, conflict and justice studies. She then pursued a postgraduate certificate in
Jinelle Piereder is a PhD candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, specializing in conflict and security. Supervised by Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, Jinelle works within the Ideological Conflict Project based at the Balsillie School, and focuses on ideological conflict within global governance and public policy-making. Using approaches and tools from complexity science, including Cognitive-Affective Mapping (CAM)
Indra Noyes is a PhD candidate in the Global Governance program at the Balsillie School for International Affairs. She is interested in food systems governance in the context of climate change, with a focus on policy, communication, and implementation. The topic of her PhD dissertation is discourse and agenda setting in global food systems governance frameworks.
Sarah Murray is a doctoral candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in the Global Justice and Human Rights stream. She previously completed her MA in History at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she studied international human rights law and human rights abuses in colonial Kenya. Sarah’s areas of expertise are international human rights, global governance,
Tamara Lorincz is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School for International Affairs (Wilfrid Laurier University). Tamara graduated with an MA in International Politics & Security Studies from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom in 2015. She was awarded the Rotary International World Peace Fellowship and was a senior researcher for
Caleb Lauer is a PhD student at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He is a freelance journalist and was based in Istanbul, Turkey between 2006 and 2015. Before that he worked for the Canadian government and worked and volunteered for a number of NGOs in Canada, Hong Kong, and India. Caleb has a BA in
Burgess Langshaw Power is a PhD candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs – University of Waterloo, studying the governance of solar geoengineering from the perspective of path dependent political decision making and polycentric governance – and in particular, the governance possibilities by nation-states like Canada. He is also the Cadieux-Léger Fellow at Global
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