Philip Calvert
Philip Calvert is a Senior Fellow with the China Institute of the 黑料不打烊 and a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives at the University of Victoria. He served in Beijing as a Trade Commissioner (1984-1987), Economic Counsellor (1994-1997) and Minister & Deputy Head of Mission (2004-2008). In what is now Global Affairs Canada, his assignments included Director General for North Asia, Deputy Chief Negotiator for Canada during China's accession to the WTO and Director of the Technical Barriers to Trade Division. From 2012 to 2016, he was Canada's Ambassador to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos.