SpecialityResearch Fellow, Institute for Peace & Diplomacy; Researcher, Centre for European Policy Studies

Dr. Zachary Paikin is a non-resident research fellow at IPD based in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also a researcher in EU foreign policy at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, as well as Senior Visiting Fellow at the Global Policy Institute in London, UK. At IPD, Paikin oversaw the Institute’s 2021 federal election coverage and also serves as director of its China Strategy Project, which dwells on five key policy questions shaping the future of Canada-China relations. Paikin, who holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Kent, is also a member of the executive committee of the Younger Generation Leaders Network on Euro-Atlantic Security, as well as a collaborator with the Network for Strategic Analysis (funded by Canada’s Department of National Defence). He is a contributing author to Marginalisé : réflexions sur l’isolement du Canada dans les relations internationales (published by Presses de l’Université Laval in 2022) and co-editor of Rebooting Global International Society: Change, Contestation and Resilience (published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2022).