Dr. Justin Nankivell is the Director of Research Security at the University of Waterloo, Canada. The central objectives of this post involve creating a safeguarding research program that can navigate research risk, protecting researchers and institutes, developing risk-mitigation processes and strengthening commercialization, IP and international efforts in Waterloo’s key STEM areas and a range of innovation institutions.
From 2008-2018, Dr. Nankivell was a professor of International Law and International Security, and later associate dean of Academics, at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, under the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy, in the U.S. He specialized in East Asian security governance, international law, and foreign policy. From 2018-2022, he worked as a senior executive in the Government of Canada, under Public Safety Canada, handling a range of national security files related to the Indo-Asia Pacific.