Dean Baxendale is a CEO of the China Democracy Foundation and Optimum Publishing International. His interst in civic engagment and politics started in his teens. His interest in public policy has been a life long passion and has worked on Health Care, Indiginous, technology and industrial infrastructure policy for both Liberal and Conservative party’s of Canada.
Mr Baxendale has spent his career in both corporate and small business enterprises. An entrepreneur, writer, educator and communications specialist he graduated from the British Columbia Instuture of Technology, Marketing Management in 1980 and studied economics at Simon Fraser University in B.C., Canada.
in 2017, Dean relaunched the forty-five year old publishing house Optimum Publishing International after it’s founder Michael Baxendale passed away. Optimum focuses on public policy, global affairs, transnationsl organized Crime and geo-politics. He has published five books on the CCP’s human rights record, and influence operations in the West over the past three years.
Since 2021, Baxendale has written articles, papers & spoken extensively on The CCP’s Human Rights record, Influence operations and links between transnational organized crime and the CCP’s Hybrid Warfare operations in the free world.”
He has partnered with international organisations such as Hong Kong Watch, IPAC, the MacDonal Laurier Institute and others on human rights conferences and other China-related initiatives