Pascale Massot

Pascale Massot is an associate professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is also John H. McArthur Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada in Vancouver, non-resident Honorary Fellow, Political Economy at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis in New York, a Canadian Global Affairs Institute Fellow and a non-resident Fellow, Center for China Analysis, National Taiwan University.

She is the author of China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets (Oxford University Press, 2024), which won the 2025 Best Book Award in International Political Economy from the International Studies Association and the 2025 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize.

She has served as senior adviser on China and Asia to various Canadian Cabinet ministers, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of International Trade (2015–2017; 2020–2021), and as both a member of and an adviser to the co-chairs of the Canadian foreign minister’s Indo-Pacific Advisory Committee in 2022.

At the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, she helped launch the Critical Minerals Hub and  the Minerals Matter podcast series which she co-hosts. . 

She was a Taiwan fellow and visiting professor at the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies (GIEAS), National Chengchi University (NCCU), a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, a visiting PhD candidate at Peking University’s Center for International Political Economy and a Cadieux-Léger Fellow at Global Affairs Canada. 

She currently is Principal Investigator for Global Affairs Canada’s Indo-Pacific Scholarships and Fellowships for Canadians, Department of National Defence’s Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded research projects, among others. 

Her research interests include the global political economy of China’s rise, China’s impact on global extractive commodity markets—including debates around de-risking, critical minerals and economic security, Canada-China relations, U.S.-China strategic competition, China narratives, and the advent of Indo-Pacific strategies around the world. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.