Vina Nadjibulla

Vina Nadjibulla is Co-Founder and CEO of the Centre for Strategic Statecraft (CSS). She is a foreign policy executive, analyst, and public commentator with more than two decades of experience in diplomacy, international affairs, and policymaking. Her work focuses on Canadian foreign policy, economic security, great-power competition, strategic technologies, and Canada’s relationships with China, India, and the wider Indo-Pacific.

Prior to founding CSS, Vina served as Vice-President, Research & Strategy at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, where she led the organization’s policy and research agenda and its work on Canada’s engagement with the Indo-Pacific. Across her career, she has worked with governments, international organizations, think tanks, and philanthropic institutions in North America, Asia, and Central Asia.

Vina writes and speaks regularly on Canadian foreign policy, geopolitical risk, economic security, trade diversification, critical minerals, emerging technologies, and Canada’s strategic relationships. She is a frequent media commentator and has appeared on CBC, CTV, CNBC, Deutsche Welle, CNA, and Al Jazeera, among others.

Vina is also a Balsillie Scholar at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, a Senior Research Fellow at The Soufan Center, and a Contributing Writer for Policy Magazine.