Pascale Massot is an assistant professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. In 2022, she was a member of the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs’ Indo-Pacific Advisory Committee. She also served as the Senior Advisor for China and Asia to various Canadian Cabinet ministers, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Minister of International Trade, at different points between 2015 and 2021. Her research interests include the global political economy of China’s rise, China’s impact on the governance of extractive commodity markets, as well as Canada-China and Canada-Asia relations. She was a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing and at Peking University’s Center for International Political Economy. Pascale Massot was the 2014-2015 Cadieux-Léger Fellow at Global Affairs Canada. She has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of British Columbia.