Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University since 1989.
Since 1991 has been borrowed from Brock by the Department of Foreign Affairs to work in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing twice, from ’91 – ’93 and most recently from ’98 until 2000, as Counsellor for Political Affairs.
Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1987 after studies at Cambridge University in England, and three years at Fudan University in Shanghai in the late-70s.
First job was with the Communications Security Establishment in the Department of National Defence in Ottawa
Author and editor of books and articles about China and North Korea. Continues to consult for the Department of Foreign Affairs and other agencies on Canada’s policy to China and to North Korea.