Dr. Julie Nguyen holds a BComm from Concordia University, a MA in Economics and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies and Asian Research both from the University of British Columbia (UBC). She was a consultant for the United Nations in Vietnam and a research associate at the Centre for Southeast Asia Research at UBC. Dr. Nguyen conducted her post-doctoral research at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and taught courses in Political Science and Asia-Pacific Studies at the University of Toronto. She is currently a college professor of international business in Toronto; Chair of Canada-ASEAN Initiatives at YCAR, York University; and Advisory Board member of the Organization of Women in International Trade OWIT-Toronto and of the Centre for Global Enterprise, Schulich School of Business.

Femi is a seasoned business development and strategic marketing leader with over 10-year experience delivering revenue growth and customer experiences through customer engagement, strategy development, and execution, new and reoccurring sales generation within the medical device, software, wholesale, construction sectors with high energy, analytics, and pragmatism. He is a co-founder and Chief Growth Officer at Esta Link Inc. Femi holds a Bachelor’s (Hons) in Chemistry, a Graduate Certificate in International Business Management from Centennial College (2011), and an Executive MBA from Cornell University and Queen’s University (2018) with a focus on international business, growth strategy and the re-engineering of a global enterprise.