About

Michaela is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada doctoral scholar. Michaela’s book project explores how and why international organizations fail to respond to diplomatic deception by their member states.

Michaela is currently the lab coordinator for the Environmental Governance Lab at the University of Toronto. She previously worked as a political officer and policy analyst for the Greater China Division at Global Affairs Canada and was the inaugural Margaret Meagher Research Fellow for the division. She has held other fellowships with the Institute for Municipal Finance and Governance, Global Affairs Canada, and the Smart Prosperity Institute, and has participated in research fellowships abroad in mainland China, Taiwan, and Norway. Before pursuing her PhD studies, Michaela previously worked at the China Institute, a Canadian foreign policy think tank.