Pascale Massot is Non-Resident Honorary Fellow, Political Economy at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa in Canada. In 2022, she was a member and adviser to the Co-Chairs for the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs’ Indo-Pacific Advisory Committee, which was tasked with providing recommendations to the Minister on the development of Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy. She also served as the Senior Advisor for China and Asia in the offices of various Canadian Cabinet ministers, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of International Trade, between 2015 and 2017 and again between 2020 and 2021. 

Dr. Massot is the author of China's Vulnerability Paradox: How the World's Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets (Oxford University Press, 2024). Her research interests include the global political economy of China’s rise and impact on the liberal international order, China’s impact on global extractive commodity markets, including debates around de-risking, Canada-China relations, and the advent of Indo-Pacific strategies around the world. She is a Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and a Scholar with the Network for Strategic Analysis, Department of National Defence of Canada. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.