Tina Park

Biography:

TINA JIWON PARK is an award-winning scholar and one of Canada's best-known political commentators on Korea and Asia-Pacific issues. She earned her doctorate in Canadian-Korean relations under the broader umbrella of the history of globalization in the Department of History, University of Toronto. She recently completed her fellowship at the NATO Defense College in Rome and is currently based in Toronto.

Tina is also a co-founder and executive director of Canadian Centre for Responsibility to Protect (CCR2P), a non-profit and non-partisan research organization dedicated to the study and advocacy of R2P, based at the University of Toronto. In 2013, Tina advised the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly on their R2P resolution in Ecuador, which brought together over 600 MPs from around the world, and advised over 30 governments and international institution around the world on their human rights policies.

Since 2012, Tina has contributed to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's annual report on R2P and has participated in the UN General Assembly on R2P at the UNHQ in NYC. Tina has advocated political implementation of R2P at the House of Commons in Ottawa, the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington D.C., the IPU Assembly in Quebec and Quito, as well as in Istanbul, Vienna, Seoul, London and Barcelona. She co-authored a book chapter on the role of private sector in promoting R2P, published by the Cambridge University Press in 2015. She is also a globally recognized expert on human rights, Asia-Pacific and nuclear non-proliferation and comments regularly on CBC, CTV, BBC, Al Jazeera, CPAC, etc.

She has extensive experience as a certified translator and simultaneous interpreter (KST Level 1) for Korean, English, Spanish and French and has worked for various MNCs and governments, including at the G20 Seoul Summit. Tina graduated from the Trinity College (summa cum laude) in International Relations and has been a member of the U of T Governing Council and Massey College.

Tina has visited/worked in over 90 countries and speaks 6 languages. She is a Vice-President of the NATO Association of Canada, and a junior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History. A former competitive figure skater, Tina enjoys travelling, painting and sailing in her free time. (www.theparkgroup.ca/@JIWONTINA)

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