Pascale Massot

Pascale Massot is an Associate Professor at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, a Non-Resident Honorary Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis in New York, and a Research Associate at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and the China Institute at the University of Alberta. In 2022, she served on the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs’ Indo-Pacific Advisory Committee. Between 2015 and 2021, she also served at various times as a senior advisor on China and Asia in the offices of several Canadian ministers.

Pascale Massot is the author of China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets (Oxford University Press, 2024), which received the International Studies Association’s 2025 award for Best Book in International Political Economy, as well as the 2025 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for the best first book in political science. She co-founded the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada’s Critical Minerals Hub and co-hosts the Foundation’s Minerals Matter podcast. In 2025, she was a Taiwan Fellow and Visiting Professor at National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taiwan, and she has also held the Cadieux-Léger Fellowship at Global Affairs Canada.

Her research focuses on the global political economy of China’s rise, economic security and critical minerals, and Canada’s relations with China and Asia. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.