Helen Lansdowne completed her BA ('95) and MA (*98) with the UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies before joining the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI), where she found her career home, first as Assistant Director, and later Associate Director, also serving a term as Acting Director from 2012 to 2014.
Helen has dedicated her professional life to connecting people and ideas across the Pacific, specializing in Issues of development and gender in Southeast Asia and rural China state-society relations, and helping to administer seminal justice system development work in the emerging economies of Vietnam and Cambodia at the turn of the new millennium. She tirelessly oversaw and expanded CAPI's operations, including its highly regarded international student internship program for outgoing Canadian students as well as the Centre's incoming cultural exchange and training programs, undertaken by thousands of visiting students and hundreds of cross-sector professionals from across Asia.
Helen is the co-editor of numerous academic volumes, many derived from international CAPI conferences that she also organized. Helen also served as a long-time instructor of Gender Studies and Asia-Pacific Studies a short bike ride down the road at Camosun College.
The Helen Lansdowne Award will support graduate or undergraduate students whose area of study focuses on migration, gender studies, or sustainability in Asia.
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