Announcing IPD’s 2020 Interns

Please join us in welcoming our newest cohort of interns. We’re excited to see how they apply their experience and education to help grow our organization, and contribute fresh ideas to our policy analysis programs. 

Learn more about our internship program here.

Alexandra is a Policy Research Intern working on the International System 2050 program. Her research interests include Canadian–Russian relations, post-Soviet space, the Arctic, and Canadian foreign policy. Before joining IPD, Alexandra worked as a Research Assistant for the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Previously, she worked as a Project Coordinator at the Canada Eurasia Russia Business Association. Alexandra studied International Relations at the University of British Columbia, and spent a year abroad studying French and European Studies at Sciences Po Lyon. She wrote her Bachelor’s thesis on Canadian–Russian relations in the Arctic following the 2014 Crimean Crisis.

Bailey is a Master of Global Governance student at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and 2019 Global Affairs Canada Graduate Fellow. Her major research project seeks to understand the impact of biometric identification systems in aid projects administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Food Programme. She also holds supplementary interests in surveillance studies, Chinese political economy and technology governance. Her past work experience includes positions with the United Nations Environment Programme’s Convention on Biological Diversity, The Engine Room, the Green Party of Canada, and the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. She graduated from the University of Waterloo’s School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability with a Bachelor of Environmental Studies, where she studied the post-colonial flow of extractive resource industry profits.

Dulce is a Master of Global Affairs recent graduate from the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. She holds a BA in Political Science and History from the University of Alberta. Her professional experience focuses on strategic policy development and risk analysis within the areas of financial crimes and environmental impact. She is very passionate about integrating climate and security risk assessments into financial decision-making processes. Apart from her professional and academic experience, she has organized and led several successful projects related to sustainable economic development, primarily through environmental policies.

Sarah is a recent Master of Global Affairs graduate from the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy with an emphasis in Justice and Security Studies. She has also obtained a Hon. BA in International Relations, an Honours in Global and Intercultural Engagement, and a Minor in English from Western University. Following an academic exchange at the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland, she was inspired to pursue research on the impact of the United Nations’ peacekeeping and humanitarian missions, specifically in Central Europe and the former Belgian colonies in Africa. She has therefore focused her research on the role of gender and ethnicity in various security contexts and has recently pursued research on the security concerns surrounding the commercialization of outer space. From her time interning at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, she has further developed her passion for promoting gender inclusiveness in security resolutions in order to foster stronger multinational engagement on key disarmament and human rights resolutions.

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