Dr. Hema Nadarajah is Program Manager, Southeast Asia, with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She has a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of British Columbia where she researched governance in the Arctic, climate change, and Outer Space. Dr. Nadarajah consults for WWF and formerly worked for the Government of Singapore on issues of international biodiversity conservation and climate change.

Dr. Christopher Len is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. He is an Asian specialist with two decades of research experience covering international energy politics and sustainability issues, with a focus on energy transition in Asia and Chinese energy interests overseas. He also has an interest in the Arctic region, focusing on energy policy-related issues in the Arctic which are of relevance to the wider world. He previously worked at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore, the Stockholm-based Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), and was also part of the Silk Road Studies Programme at Uppsala University. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, Scotland, UK. He also has degrees from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Uppsala University, Sweden.

Elizabeth Wishnick (moderator) is a Senior Research Scientist in the China and Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Division at the Center for Naval Analyses, on leave from her position as Professor of Political Science at Montclair State University. Since 2002, she has been a research scholar at WEAI. She previously taught undergraduate and graduate courses in international relations, Chinese politics, and Chinese foreign policy at Barnard College, Columbia College, and SIPA. Dr. Wishnick has dual regional expertise on China and Russia and is an expert on Chinese foreign policy, Sino- Russian relations, Northeast Asian and Central Asian security, and Arctic geopolitics. Her book project, China’s Risk China’s Risk: Energy, Water, Food and Regional Security (forthcoming Columbia University Press) addresses the security consequences of energy, water and food risks in China for its Eurasian neighbors, a topic she explores in a related policy blog, www.chinasresourcerisks.com. She received a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University, an MA in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University, and a BA from Barnard College. She speaks Mandarin, Russian, and French.