She was also a Policy Advisor, Asia-Pacific, to the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable Stéphane Dion. She teaches political economy and Asia-Pacific politics, and her research interests include the governance of global extractive commodity markets, the relationship between global rebalancing and systemic change in the international economy, the political economy of the Asia-Pacific region, China in particular,  and Canada-China relations. Pascale Massot was the 2014-2015 Cadieux-Léger Fellow at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, where she worked on projects ranging from Canada’s World Economic Forum engagement strategy, Asia Competencies and academic outreach. She was a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing and a visiting PhD Candidate at Peking University’s Center for International Political Economy.