Afeeya Akhand is a researcher in the Cyber, Technology and Security Program at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

Benjamin Ang is Senior Fellow and Head of the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), and Future Issues in Technology (FIT), as well as Head of Digital Impact Research (DIR) at RSIS. He leads the CENS policy research team that writes, publishes, and lectures internationally on national security issues related to cyber, international cyber norms, disinformation, cybercrime, foreign interference, hybrid threats, digital security, social cohesion, polarization, and social resilience. At FIT, he leads the team exploring policy issues in artificial intelligence, space, quantum technology, smart cities, biotechnology, and other emerging technologies. Through DIR, he networks with the wide array of RSIS experts who study the impact of digital technology into their respective security domains. He has spoken at the United Nations Open Ended Working Group on Cyber, testified before Singapore's Parliamentary Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods, and regularly lectures at the UN-Singapore Cyber Fellowship.

Dr. KUNO is a Professor of International Economics at Asia University in Tokyo, Japan. He is also a visiting researcher at the Institute for International Trade and Investment (ITI). Before joining the university, he worked as a visiting researcher at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). Additionally, at Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting, he served as a Senior Economist, conducting research on Japan's trade policy. While his earlier research focused on Japan's trade policy and East Asian economic integration, his recent interests extend to the relationship between globalization and economic security. His recent publications include: “Building Resilient Supply Chains through IPEF: The Possibilities and Challenges” (The Japan Institute of International Affairs, 2022) and “The Effectiveness of Economic Sanctions against Russia: Preliminary Evaluation and Prospects (in Japanese)” (Toua (East Asia), 2022). He was a member of the Japanese delegation in the “Korea-Japan Economic and Security Dialogue” held in February 2023, hosted by the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Keio University.

Axel Berkofsky is Associate Professor at the University of Pavia, Italy and Co-Director of the Asia Centre at the Milan-based Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale ( ISPI). Axel Berkofsky is also Member of the Executive Committee of the Canon Foundation Europe, Executive Committee Board Member at the Stockholm-based European Japan Advanced Research Network (EJARN) and Research Affiliate at the European Institute of Japanese Studies at the Stockholm School of Economics. Previously, Dr. Berkofsky was Senior Policy Analyst, Associate Policy Analyst at the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC) and Research Fellow at the Brussels-based European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS). Axel Berkofsky has published books, numerous papers, articles and essays in journals, newspapers and magazines. His most recent book ‘China-GDR Relations from 1949 to 1989. The (Bad) Company you Keep was published in 2022 (with Springer). Axel Berkofsky has lectured and taught at numerous think tanks, research institutes and universities in Europe and Asia. His research interests are among others Japanese and Chinese foreign and security policies, Chinese history, Asian security and EU-Asia relations.

Brendan Balestrieri holds an MA from Korea University, an MA from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. from Korea University Graduate School of International Studies. A lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve, he has over 17 years of experience serving with the United States military in South Korea and Iraq.
Derek Bowen holds a BS in construction management from Brigham Young University and an MS in geological engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology. A lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve and an engineer officer, he has over 23 years of experience serving in various leadership positions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Haiti, and Korea.

Bruce W. Bennett is a senior international/defense researcher at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation. He works primarily on research topics such as strategy, force planning, and counterproliferation within the RAND International Security and Defense Policy Center.

Bruce W. Bennett is an Adjunct International/Defense Researcher at The RAND Corporation. He is an expert in Northeast Asian security issues, having visited the region about 120 times and written much about Korean security. His research addresses issues such as the North Korean military threats; deterring and defeating the use of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons; negotiating North Korean nuclear dismantlement; future ROK military force requirements; the challenges of Korean unification; the Korean military balance; modeling military conflict; and potential Chinese military intervention in North Korea. He has facilitated a large number of seminar/war games to address these issues. He recently completed a book on: “Countering the Risks of North Korean Nuclear Weapons.” Dr. Bennett received a Ph.D. in policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School and a B.S. in economics from the California Institute of Technology.

Dr. Eric J. Ballback is a research fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs), focusing on foreign and security policies of North and South Korea, inter-Korean relations, multilateralism in East Asia, identity politics in Korea, and critical theories of International Relations. Before he joined SWP in October 2017, he was a post-doctoral research fellow and lecturer for the Institute of Korean Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin since April 2015, and director at Research Unit II: North Korea and International Security at the Institute of Korean Studies of Freie Universität Berlin since October 2015. He was also a research fellow and lecturer at the Insitute of Korean Studies of Freie Universität Berlin from April 2009 to March 2015.

James Burt is Chief Strategy Officer and a founder of Korea Future and has a wealth of experience as a human rights defender and leader in the non-profit space, including over a decade of experience as an investigator.

Jason Bartlett is a Research Associate for the Energy, Economics, and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He analyzes developments and trends in sanctions policy and evasion tactics, proliferation finance, and cyber-enabled financial crime with a regional focus on North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela. He also leads writing for the CNAS Sanctions by the Numbers series and researches the U.S.-ROK alliance and international security issues, such as North Korean military provocations and cybercrime.

Mr. Bartlett was a 2018–2019 Boren Fellow and Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) recipient in South Korea for Korean language immersion through the U.S. Departments of Defense and State, respectively. He holds a master’s degree in Asian Studies and a graduate certificate in Refugee and Humanitarian Emergencies from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He received a BS in Spanish Language and Literature and a BA in International Studies from SUNY Oneonta. He also graduated from the Korean Language Institute at Yonsei University in Seoul and acquired professional fluency in Korean.

Joshua Busby is a Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. From 2021 to 2023, he served as a Senior Climate Advisor at the U.S, Department of Defense. He has written extensively on climate and security, global climate governance, and the clean energy transition for numerous academic journals and think tanks.

Joshua Byun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston College. His research works focus on questions related to grand strategy and alliance politics, some of which has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Security, Political Science Quarterly, Contemporary Security Policy, and Washington Quarterly. Byun was a 2022-23 Global Innovation Program Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House and a 2021-22 Hans J. Morgenthau Predoctoral Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Before beginning his academic career, Byun served as the personal interpreter to the Republic of Korea's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Dr. JUN Bong-Geun is Professor Emeritus at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy(KNDA) since 2023, after researching and educating for 18 years there. He is also currently President of the Korea Nuclear Policy Society. Professor Jun held several governmental and non-governmental positions: Policy Advisor to the Minister of Unification, Secretary to the President for international security affairs, and professional staffer at KEDO New York headquarters. He was also a visiting fellow at Keio University, the Asia Foundation Center for U.S-Korea Policy, and Geneva Center for Security Studies. His research areas cover the North Korean nuclear issue, inter-Korean relations, Northeast Asian politics, nuclear policy, nuclear energy, and strategic studies.

Professor Jun is the author of numerous books and articles. His recent books (in Korean) are The Tragedy of International Politics of the Korean Peninsula(2023), The Thirty Year’s Nuclear Crisis on the Korean Peninsula(2023), and The Politics of Denuclearization(2020).

Dr. Kil Joo Ban is a Director of the Center for Security Studies, CIS (Center for International Studies), Inha University. His research areas are the U.S.-China competition, Asian security, alliance, military strategy, and middle power politics. He has published 6 books including 2 co-authored books and written around 50 academic articles. Recent articles are “Arms Control Dialogue or Gray Zone Talks? Pitfalls of the Discourses of Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and Nuclear Arms Control,” Pacific Focus (2022), “Lopsided Security on the Korean Peninsula: North Korea’s Gray Zone Evolution from Balance of Insecurity to Imbalance of Terror,” Asian Survey (2021), and “Aircraft Carrier Balancing in Northeast Asia and South Korean Carrier Program: Power, Threat, and Function,” The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis (2021). He has a Ph. D. in Political Science from Arizona State University (2011).

Muhammet Bas is an Associate Professor of Political Science at New York University Abu Dhabi. He received his PhD and MA from the University of Rochester, and his BA from Bogazici University. Prior to joining NYUAD, He was an associate professor in the Government Department at Harvard University.

In his research, he studies factors affecting the likelihood of international conflict. These include (1) various sources of uncertainty in crisis interactions; (2) emergence and spread of new military technologies, and in particular, nuclear weapons; and (3) changes in the natural environment such as climate change, or natural disasters. In order to address these substantive questions appropriately, he has developed a number of new measures and statistical methods, some of which can be fruitfully utilized in other areas of international relations and political science. His research on these topics have appeared in journals such as Journal of Politics, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, and Political Analysis.

Pongphisoot (Paul) Busbarat is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. He holds a PhD in Political Science & IR from Australian National University and postgraduate degrees from Columbia University and Cambridge University. His research interests include great power competition in Southeast Asia, (especially the Mekong subregion), Thailand’s foreign policy, and norms and identity in IR. Currently, Paul is working on several research projects including the study of a normative construct influencing Thailand’s foreign policy choices between the United States and China, and a study of China’s regional leadership consolidation in the Mekong subregion. His most recent publication is ‘China and Mekong Regionalism: A Reappraisal of the Formation of Lancang-Mekong Cooperation’ in Asian Politics & Policy.

Sonja Biserko is a prominent leader and reformist well- known for her courageous and extraordinary contribution for democratic changes in her country and the region of Southeastern Europe.

She is the Chairperson of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia. Among the founders of the European Movement in Yugoslavia, the Center for Anti-war Action, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia and the Forum for International Relations. Worked on a variety of civil and human rights programs; Helsinki Watch, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, UN Center for Human Rights, Mazowiecki’s mission and the Tribunal in The Hague. Ms. Biserko organized the first opposition meeting in the former Yugoslavia, Geneva 1991. One of the most strategic projects she has been engaged in was the return of refugees, especially Serbs from Croatia. She was actively engaged in Kosovo issue since 90s. More than ten years engaged in the projects Dealing with Past. She closely worked with Geoffrey Nice’s team on Milosevic’s trial, as well as in other cases in The Hague Tribunal. She has a vast expertise in human rights, peace processes and justice stemming for her visionary political thinking and critical thinking capacities. She was participant in Eric Lane Fellowship, Clare College, Cambridge, UK in 2012, Senior Fellow, US Institute for Peace, Washington D.C. in 2001. She was a member of the UN Commission on inquiry on the DPR Korea 2013-2014.

Sunha Bae is a senior researcher at the Cybersecurity Policy Department of the National Security Research Institute since 2015. She received an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2009. Before she joined NSRI, she had worked for LIGNex1(Korea’s defense industry) and Doosan Heavy Industry as a software engineer on a control system. Her main research area is active cyber defense strategy, cybersecurity exercise, and cybersecurity policy evaluation.

YoungJa Bae is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Konkuk University. Dr. Bae received her BA and MA at Seoul National University and her Ph.D. in political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. She has been serving on the policy advisory committee of the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the policy advisory committee to the Office of National Security at the Blue House, the vice chairman of the Korean Association of International Studies, and the vice chairman of the Korean Political Science Association. She was a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University under Taiwan Fellowship. Her main research interests include international politics and S&T, science diplomacy, and international political economy. Her major publications include "US-China competition and Science and Technology Innovation," "S&T Diplomacy as Public Diplomacy," and "Regulations on Foreign Direct Investment and National Security."

Andrew Capistrano is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Economic Security Group at the Institute of Geoeconomics, Tokyo. A diplomatic historian by training, he holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Heesik Choi is a professor of Japanese Studies at the Department of International Studies, international regional studies at the graduate school, and director of the Institute of Japanese Studies at Kookmin University. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from the Graduate School of Political Science from Seoul National University and a PhD from Keio University.

Hyun Jin Choi, Ph.D. (Michigan State University, 2012), is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Kyung Hee University, Seoul. Prof. Choi’s research interests fall within the field of international relations, civil war, and development cooperation. His articles have been published in numerous refereed journals, including Global Environmental Change; International Studies Quarterly; Democratization, Comparative Politics; and Journal of Conflict Resolution. Mr. Choi has served as a research director of the Korea Academic Council of the United Nations System (KACNUS) since January 2021.

Lt. Gen. Chun In Bum graduated from the Korea Military Academy. He commanded the ROK Special Forces and retired in 2016 with the rank of Lieutenant General. Gen. Chun studied at the US Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk VA and the US Army War College, Carlisle PA where he received a Masters Degree in Military Strategy. He also has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Kyungnam University, Korea. He was a fellow with the Brookings institution, USKI at SAIS and the Sam-Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech Univ. Gen. Chun served at all levels of command in combat units with thirteen months on the Eastern mountains of the Korean DMZ. He also deployed to Irag in 2004 and has extensive experience in combined operations to include serving as the Senior Member for the UN Military Armistice Commission. He is the most highly decorated Korean officer since the Vietnam war with a US Bronze Star, three US Legion of Merits and the only Korean to receive the USSOCOM Medal. Lt. Gen Chun also has numerous Korean citations.

Currently, he serves as the Senior Vice president of the both Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Korea Chapter and the US Air and Space Forces Association (AFA) MIG Alley Chapter and is on the Advisory board for the National Bureau of Asian Research as well as a Senior Contributor for the Asia Society Korea. He is a military analyst and has an active Youtube channel where he uploads videos on ROK military and other security issues for a general audience.

Jae-Hung Chung(정재흥,鄭載興) is a Research Fellow (Department of Security Strategy Studies) of the Sejong institute in Korea. He received his B.A. from Peking University in China (Beijing), M.A. in Sogang University in Korea (Seoul), and Ph.D. from Chinese Academy of Social Science in China (Beijing). He was an Assistant professor of Kyungnam University (2013-2015), the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Analysis (2007-2013) and policy advisor Ministry of National Defence and NIS. He has served as Consulate General of the Republic of Korea Guangzhou in China, Senior Political Researcher (2010-2012). Main research interests include Chinese Security (Defence) and Chinese Non-traditional Security(Terrorism), Sino-North Korea (Sino-South Korea) Security (Defence) relations, Northeast Asian and Korean Peninsula Security (Defence) issue.

Prof. Jae-Heon Choi has worked in the field of human geography over 30 years. He got his BA and MA from Seoul National University and Ph.D. from geography department at the University of Minnesota in 1993. Since 1995, He has been a professor of geography in Konkuk University, while establishing the World Heritage Studies program in the graduate school at Konkuk University in 2014. As a geographer, he was a founding member of Korean Urban Geographical Society(KUGS) and became the president of KUGS during 2012-2013. He has been working for For cultural heritage, he has actively involved for several World Heritage nominations in Korea including Namhansanseong and Sansa, as well as had been served as a ICOMOS World Heritage Panel member and Secretary General of ICOMOS Korea. He is interested in historic urban landscape and urban heritage, teaching several classes both in geography and heritage studies such as urban geography, heritage planning, value-based approach for cultural heritage and so on. He is currently director of KU World Heritage Research Center and a chair of the WH program in Konkuk University, Seoul, KOREA and is working as a member of Advisory Committee of Our World Heritage Foundation since 2021. Email: choijh@konkuk.ac.kr / geojay63@gmail.com

Jaewoo Choo is a Professor of Chinese foreign policy in the Department of Chinese Studies at Kyung Hee University, and the Director of the China Studies Center at the Korean Research Institute for National Strategy (KRINS). He is also currently serving as the President of the Korean-Chinese Association of Social Science(2022-2023), the President of the Korean Association of Area Studies(2023), and a member of the policy advisory committee of the Ministry of National Unification, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense. He was a visiting fellow at Georgia Tech Sam Nunn School(2011-12), and the Brookings Institute(2014). His research interests include Chinese foreign policy, multilateral security cooperation, U.S.-China relations, and China-North Korea relations. His recent publications include U.S.-China Relations for Koreans: From Korean War to THAAD Conflicts(2017), U.S. and China’s Strategy on the Korean Peninsula: Reading from the Facts(2018), and U.S. and North Korea Relations: The Fate of the History(2022). He is a graduate of Wesleyan University (BA in Government) and Peking University (MA & Ph.D. in International Relations).

Jahyun Chun is an associate professor in the department of international relations at Yonsei University, Mirae Campus. Chun’s research interests include international reconciliation and foreign policy in East Asia. Her publications include “Varieties of International Reconciliation,” International Relations(2022), and “Who Decides Foreign Policy? The Role of National Trauma in Shaping the Influence
of Public Opinion in South Korea,” Policy Studies (2021).

Dr. Jangho Choi is the Head of International Cooperation for Korean Unification Team, Institute for International Economic Policy. Prior to joining the KIEP, he received a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Oregon State University, USA (2014). The main research area of ​​his Ph.D. is International Trade, and his PhD thesis is ‘analyzes the impact of trade liberalization on multi-product firm’s productivity via the adjustment of the number of, and the amount of products’.

After joining KIEP in 2014, he studied North Korea’s trade, North Korea’s international relations, the Greater Tumen Initiative developing a border area where North Korea, China, and Russia meet, and the transition of the North Korean regime.

His major research includes Analysis of North Korea's Trade with China (every year since 2015); Implications of the Transitional Outcomes of Southeast Asian Countries CLMV for North Korea: Development and Application of Transition Index (2020); Study on North Korea’s Trade System: Implications for the CEPA between South and North Koreas (2018); Transition Economies’ Experience of WTO Accession and its Implications for DPRK (2018); Developing Analysis Model and Analyzing Growth Effects of South and North Korea Economic Integration (2017).

The KIEP is a national policy research institute established to conduct studies, research and analyses of global economic issues, guiding the nation toward effective international economic policies. For more information, please visit (www.kiep.go.kr).

Jin-goo Cho is an assistant professor and Director of the Japan Center at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies(IFES), Kyungnam University. Prior to joining(IFES), he was a policy assistant of the National Unification Advisory Council which is a presidential administrative organization. He was also a research professor at Korea University’s Peace & Democracy Institute(PDI). He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea. As an academic, his research focuses primarily on Northeast Asian international relations, comparative studies between the ROK-U.S. alliance and U.S.-Japan alliance, and relations between North and South Koreas and Japan. Recently he has interests in reconciliation and cooperation among East Asian countries. He receives his Ph.D. in international politics from the University of Tokyo, an M.A. in international relations from the University of Shizuoka, Japan, and a B.A. from Korea University in Sociology, ROK. He is the co-author of New Order in Northeast Asia and the Future of the Korean Peninsula(2019, Korean), and Changes in the Korean Peninsula and Inter-Korean Relations(2021, Korean). He also wrote many academic articles including “Japan’s Postwar Asian Reparation Diplomacy and Historical Perceptions: Achievements and Limitations of Inter-governmental Reconciliation”(2020, Korean) and “Moon Jae-in Administration’s Japan Policy – Focused on the Issue of the Japanese Military “Comfort Women” - ”(2019, Korean).

Jinwoo Choi is a professor of political science and diplomacy at Hanyang University and director of the Institute for Peace at Hanyang University. He holds a doctorate in European political research at the University of Washington, and has since published more than 50 papers. After graduating from the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Yonsei University, he earned his Master's degree from the Yonsei University Graduate School of Political Science and this PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. He was the President of the Korean Political Science Association and President of the Korean Society of Contemporary European Studies before joining Hanyang University.

Jonathan Corrado is Director of Policy for The Korea Society. He produces programming and conducts research on a range of security, diplomacy, and socioeconomic issues impacting the U.S.-Korea Alliance, the Korean Peninsula, and Northeast Asia. Jonathan is a non-resident James A. Kelly Fellow at Pacific Forum, an Emerging Leader at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and a contributor to NK Pro. He has published peer-reviewed articles in the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, the Journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, and Asian Politics & Policy. He has also published analysis in diverse outlets such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, War on the Rocks, 38 North, The Diplomat, The Japan Times, The National Interest, Yahoo News, Pacific Forum PacNet and Issues & Insights, NK News, and NK Pro. He has been quoted in Reuters, The South China Morning Post, The Korea Times, Radio Free Asia, and Voice of America. Jonathan was previously a translator for Daily NK (Korean to English), an FCPA due diligence investigator for Steele Compliance Solutions, a graduate fellow for McLarty Associates, and a volunteer analyst for the Congressional Research Service. Jonathan received an MA from Georgetown University's Asian Studies Program in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and a BA in anthropology and philosophy from the University of Maryland College Park.

Dr. Kuyoun Chung is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Kangwon National University. Her research focuses on US foreign policy and Indo-Pacific security issues, including competing regional security architecture, maritime security, grey-zone conflict, and hybrid warfare. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2011. She was previously a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at UCLA (2011–2012), visiting professor at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy (2014–2015), policy advisor to the Vice President of the Presidential Committee for Unification Preparation (2015), and research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification (2015–2018). She also joined the US State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program (2017) and has served as a member of the policy advisory committee of the Ministry of Unification, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Korea Institute of Nuclear Non-proliferation and Control, as well as the National Unification Advisory Council. She currently serves as Executive Director at the International Policy Studies Institute Korea (IpsiKor) and Editor-in-chief for the Journal of Maritime Security at the Korea Institute for Maritime Strategy.

Lisa Curtis is Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. She is a foreign policy and national security expert with over 20 years of service in the U.S. government. Her work has centered on U.S. policy toward the Indo-Pacific and South Asia. From 2017 to 2021, Curtis served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for South and Central Asia at the NSC. During her tenure at the NSC, she coordinated U.S. policy development and implementation of the South Asia Strategy, contributed to the Indo-Pacific Strategic Framework, and coordinated policies designed to strengthen the U.S.-India partnership, resulting in a widely recognized elevation of the relationship. Curtis received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in December 2020 in recognition of her work at the NSC.

From 2006–2017, Curtis was Senior Fellow on South Asia at The Heritage Foundation, where she appeared regularly in the media and provided frequent Congressional testimony. She also served as Professional Staff Member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (2003-2006), Senior Advisor in the South Asia Bureau at the State Department (2001-2003), senior analyst on South Asia at the CIA (1996-2001), and as a diplomat at the U.S. Embassies in Pakistan and India (1994 to 1997).

Curtis has published commentary in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN.com, NPR.org, and other media outlets and has made multiple appearances on CNN, Fox News, BBC, PBS, MSNBC, and C-SPAN. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Radio Free Europe/Radio Free Liberty and on the Leadership Council of Women in National Security (LCWINS) and is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

• Dr. Monika Chansoria is a Senior Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) in Tokyo. Prior to this, she was Senior Fellow for a decade at the Indian Army’s Think Tank, Centre for Land Warfare Studies in New Delhi, where she headed the East Asia & China-study program. She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Besides, Dr. Chansoria has held many senior research appointments, including at the Sandia National Laboratories (U.S.), Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan) and as Associate Director of Studies at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris). She specializes in contemporary Asian security and weapons’ proliferation issues, nuclear politics and strategy, and, Great Power politics in the Indo-Pacific with special reference to China. Dr. Chansoria has solely authored five books on Asia’s security affairs, including China, Japan and Senkaku Islands: Conflict in the East China Sea Amid an American Shadow (Routledge © 2018); Nuclear China: A Veiled Secret (2014); and, Chinese WMD Proliferation in Asia: U.S. Response (2009) among others. She has also co-edited a book, Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Conflict Redux (2014). The views expressed here are those of the author personally, and do not necessarily reflect the policy or position of JIIA.

Myung-Hyun Chung is a research professor at Korea University Legal Research Institute and the vice director of Korea University Cyber Law Centre. She graduated from the University of Iowa (LL.M) and Korea University with Ph.D. in international law. Her research interests include international trade law, intellectual property law, data protection, cyber security, and digital trade. She has been involved in a number of governmental projects including Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Industry and Trade, National Security Research Institute, Personal Information Protection Commission, etc. She is a member of the Korean Society of International Law, Korean Society of International Economic Law, and a board member of International Cyber Law Studies in Korea and Korean Society of Trade Remedies.

Patrick M. Cronin is the Asia-Pacific Security Chair at Hudson Institute. Dr. Cronin’s research program analyzes the challenges and opportunities confronting the United States in the Indo-Pacific region, including China’s total competition campaign, the future of the Korean peninsula, and strengthening U.S. alliances and partnerships.

Seok-ju Cho is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Kyung Hee University. His main research lies in the field of political economy with its focus on applications of game theory to political interactions. Some of his works have been published in American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, and Journal of Economic Theory.

Dr. Sung-Yoon Chung is a Research Fellow at KINU. His fields of interest include North Korea Nuclear Issues, U.S.-DPRK Relations, North Korea's Diplomatic and Security Strategy, Security in Northeast Asia. He got his Ph.D in Political Science from Korea University. He was a visiting Scholar at the Center for Asian Studies, American University, U.S. from 2005 to 2006 and was a Research Professor at the Ilmin International Relations Institute, Korea University from 2007 to 2014. He is the author and co-author of dozens of scholarly articles and books including, “Conditions for Achieving Strategic Integration” Journal of International Politics(2021), “How will North Korea Respond to Shifts in the U.S.-China Relations?” The Journal of East Asian Affairs(2022). Currently, he was a member of the North Korean Nuclear and Peace Task Force Advisory Team, Ministry of Unification as well as is member of advisory committee of Ministry of Defense.

Tom Corben is a Research Fellow in the Foreign Policy and Defence Program at the United States Studies Centre, where he works on US Indo-Pacific Strategy, regional strategic dynamics, Japanese and Korean foreign and defence policies, defence industry and technology issues, and alliance modernisation trends.

Victor Cha is Senior Vice President for Asia and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is also Vice Dean and Professor at Georgetown University.

Ellen Kim is Senior Fellow and Deputy Director in the Korea Chair at CSIS.

Dr. Cho, Wondeuk is currently a research professor of the Center of ASEAN-Indian Studies at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA). He is also a visiting professor teaching ASEAN and Oceania courses at Yonsei University. His main research topics consist of international relations of the Indo-Pacific region-esp. the Mekong Subregion and South Asia including India, and US policy in the Indo-Pacific. His academic articles were published in Defence and Peace Economics, Pacific Focus, and other Korean international relations journals including National Strategy, Journal of Northeast Asia Research, Korean Political Science Review, etc.

Dr Cheng Xiaohe serves as a professor with the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China. His main research focuses lie in the fields of China’s foreign relations in general and China’s relations with neighboring countries in particular. He received his PhD in Political Science from Boston University, M.A. in International Relations from Boston University, and B.A. in International Politics form Fudan University.

Yoon Jung Choi is Vice President, Director of the Center for Diplomatic Strategy and the Center for Indo-Pacific Studies at the Sejong Institute. Her research expertise encompasses geopolitics and geoeconomics in the Indo-Pacific region, with a specific focus on countries in South and Southeast Asia. Notably, she has conducted extensive research delving into economic and technological dimensions while maintaining a core interest in the regional dynamics towards an inclusive global order. Beyond her academic contributions, Dr. Choi has considerable professional and hands-on experience in policy development. Her current official assignments include membership within the Policy Advisory Council for the National Security Office (NSO) in the Office of the President and the ROK’s ASEAN Regional Forum's Experts and Eminent Persons. She also collaborates closely with governmental bodies such as the Ministry of Unification and the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE), serving on advisory and evaluation committees.

Zack Cooper is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies US strategy in Asia, including alliance dynamics and US-China competition. He also teaches at Georgetown University and Princeton University, codirects the Alliance for Securing Democracy, and cohosts the “Net Assessment” podcast. Dr. Cooper is currently writing a book that explains how to predict the future path of US-China military competition by examining how militaries change during power shifts.

Before joining AEI, Dr. Cooper was the senior fellow for Asian security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He also served as assistant to the deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism at the National Security Council and as a special assistant to the principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy at the Department of Defense.

Dr. Cooper graduated from Princeton University with a PhD and an MA in security studies and an MPA in international relations. He received a BA in public policy from Stanford University.

Alexis Dudden received her BA from Columbia University in 1991 and her PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 1998. She is currently writing a book, The Opening and Closing of Japan, 1850-2020, about Japan’s territorial disputes and the changing meaning of islands in international law.

Dr. Evelyn S. Devadason is a Professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University Malaya. She is also the Malaysian representative to the Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD) and a recently appointed member to the Board of Directors of the East Asian Economic Association (EAEA).

John Delury is Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), where he serves as chair of the Program in International Cooperation. He is also chair of the undergraduate Program in International Studies at Yonsei’s Underwood International College (UIC), and founding director of the Yonsei Center on Oceania Studies. He is the author, with Orville Schell, of Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century, and is writing a book about US-China relations in the early Cold War. Based in Seoul since 2010, his articles can be found in journals such as Asian Survey, Late Imperial China, and Journal of Asian Studies, his commentaries appear in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Washington Post, and 38 North, and he contributes book reviews for the quarterly journal Global Asia, where he is associate managing editor. John is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, National Committee on US-China Relations, and National Committee on North Korea; he is also Pacific Century Institute board member, Asia Society senior fellow, National Committee on American Foreign Policy leadership council member, and Center on Strategic and International Studies adjunct fellow. He is a member of the Republic of Ireland’s foreign affairs advisory network and is invited to offer his analysis on East Asian affairs with government, think tank, corporate, and civil society organizations globally. 

Joo, Dong-Jin (朱東辰) is a Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS). Dr. Joo previously served as a Research Fellow of the Institute for Global Future Strategy, SungKyunKwan University. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the SungKyunKwan University. His research areas include Republic of Korea’s Multilateral Security Strategy, Strategic Scenario Making, and Foreign Policies. His recent publications include “Korea’s Foreign Policy Against North-Korea and the Strategic Triangle between North-Korea, the Unite-States, and China” (2018); “Korea’s Geopolitical Strategy and Challenges: Indo-Pacific Strategy and the Scapegoat Hypothesis” (2023).

Dr. Dohee Kim is a legislative researcher of the Foreign Affairs and national security team at the National Assembly Research Service. She is mostly interested in issues such as ROK-U.S. alliance, U.S. - South Korean diplomatic relations, U.S. relationship with North Korea, and defense industry.

Mathieu Duchâtel is the Director of the Asia Program at Institut Montaigne, a role he has held since January 2019. Previously, he served as Senior Policy Fellow and Deputy Director of the Asia Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and as Senior Researcher and Beijing Representative for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He has spent nine years in Shanghai, Taipei, and Beijing, including roles as a Research Fellow at Asia Centre and Visiting Scholar at institutions such as Peking University, the Japan Institute of International Affairs, and the Institute for National Defense and Security Research in Taipei.

A political science Ph.D. from Sciences Po, Mathieu has authored numerous publications on Asian geopolitics, technology, and security, including Blue China (2018) and Géopolitique de la Chine (3rd ed., 2022). His research focuses on economic security, technology transfers, and China's strategic developments.

Michael Danagher served as Canada’s Ambassador to the Republic of Korea from 2018 to 2021 and held multiple diplomatic posts across Africa, Asia, and Europe. Over a 30-year career with Global Affairs Canada, he focused on trade policy, regional economic relations, and intergovernmental collaboration, including roles as Director-General for Regional Trade Operations and Senior Trade Commissioner in Hanoi and Budapest. He holds a BA from the University of Ottawa and an MBA from McGill University.

Steven Denney is a lecturer in East Asian Economy and Society for the Department of East Asia Studies at the University of Vienna and Vice-Director of the European Centre for North Korean Studies (ECNK). He can be reached at steven.denney@univie.ac.at.

Toby Dalton is co-director and a senior fellow of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. An expert on nonproliferation and nuclear energy, his work addresses regional security challenges and the evolution of the global nuclear order.

Dalton’s research and writing focuses in particular on South Asia and East Asia. He is author (with George Perkovich) of Not War, Not Peace? Motivating Pakistan to Prevent Cross-Border Terrorism (Oxford University Press, 2016), which provides in-depth analysis of the conflict spectrum in South Asia. He also wrote (with Michael Krepon) A Normal Nuclear Pakistan and “Beyond Incrementalism: Rethinking Approaches to CBMs and Stability in South Asia.” He co-edited Perspectives on an Evolving Nuclear Order and wrote “South Korea Debates Nuclear Options,” (with Byun Sunggee and Lee Sang-Tae) and “South Korea’s Search for Nuclear Sovereignty” (with Alexandra Francis).

From 2002 to 2010, Dalton served in a variety of high-level positions at the U.S. Department of Energy, including acting director for the Office of Nuclear Safeguards and Security and senior policy adviser to the Office of Nonproliferation and International Security. He also established and led the department’s office at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan from 2008-2009.

Dalton previously served as professional staff member to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a Luce Scholar at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Seoul, a research associate at the National Bureau of Asian Research, and a project associate for the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program. He has authored numerous op-eds and journal articles in publications such as Foreign Policy, the Washington Quarterly, Asia Policy, Politico, the National Interest, the Diplomat, Dawn, the Wire, Force, and Dong-A Ilbo.

Dr. Alice Ekman is Senior Analyst of charge of the Asia portfolio at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS).

Dr Amy Ertan is a Cyber and Hybrid Policy Officer at NATO Headquarters, where she supports the development of cyber policies and initiatives across the Alliance, and a Cybersecurity Fellow with the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative. Previously, Amy was a Cyber Strategy Researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, a Cybersecurity Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and held cybersecurity roles across the private and public sector. Her broader research interests in cyber strategy and emerging security challenges have led to publications on topics including national cyber strategies, military exercising, and human-centred security. Amy holds a PhD in Information Security from Royal Holloway University of London, where she researched the security implications of artificial intelligence in military contexts. She has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, and holds CISSP and CREST (cyber threat intelligence) qualifications.

Benjamin A. Engel is a Visiting Professor at Dankook University. He received his Ph.D. and Master’s in International Studies from the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. His recent academic publications include “Koreagate Revisited: ROK Government Lobbying on the Human Rights Issue” in Cold War History and “American Responses to Possible South Korean Nuclear Weapon Development: Then and Now” in the Journal of Peace and Unification. In addition to these academic publications, he has also written several articles linking history to current affairs and analyses of US-ROK relations in The Diplomat and Korea Pro. Originally from United States and a graduate of the University of Missouri, he has been living and studying in South Korea since 2010.

Dr. CHOI Eunmi is a research fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Dr. CHOI received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Korea University. Previously, Dr. Choi was a research professor of the Center for Japanese Studies at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS) of Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA), a visiting researcher at University of Michigan (USA), Waseda University (Japan) and the Sejong Institute, and a researcher at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of ROK. Her main area of research interest is Korea-Japan Relations, Japanese Diplomacy, and multilateral cooperation in Northeast Asia. Currently, Dr. Choi is a member of the advisory committee to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Defense, and National Security Office.

Leif-Eric Easley (Ph.D. in Government, Harvard University) is Associate Professor at Ewha Womans University in Seoul where he teaches international security and political economics. His research focuses on U.S.-ROK-Japan coordination toward North Korea and China. He participates in Track II diplomacy and is regularly quoted in international media regarding foreign policies in Asia. He appreciates excellent research assistance from Yesun Kim.

Mario Esteban (@wizma9) is Full Professor at the Centre for East Asian Studies (Autonomous University of Madrid) and Senior Analyst at Elcano Royal Institute. His last book is China and International Norms: Evidence from the Belt and Road Initiative (Routledge, 2023).

Robert Einhorn is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Between 2009 and 2013, he served as the Secretary of State’s Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control. Between 2001 and 2009, he directed the Proliferation Prevention Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Before coming to CSIS, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation (1999-2001), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs (1992-1999), and a member of the State Department Policy Planning Staff (1986-1992). Between 1972 and 1986, he held various positions at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, including ACDA’s representative to the strategic arms reduction talks with the Soviet Union. His responsibilities on North Korea issues included chief negotiator with the DPRK on missile issues (1996-2000) and coordinator for sanctions against North Korea (2010-2013).

Antonio Fiori is Associate Professor of History and Institutions of Asia in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna (Italy) and President of the Asia Institute. He is also Adjunct Professor at Korea University in Seoul and UPES in Dehradun (India). He has been a visiting scholar at the United International College (Zhuhai, PRC), East‑West Center (Honolulu, USA), and Kyujanggak Center for Korean Studies (Seoul National University, Korea). He has published widely in the fields of Inter‑Korean relations and North Korea’s domestic and international affairs. Among his publications, The Korean Paradox: Domestic Political Divide and Foreign Policy in South Korea (Routledge, 2019) and The Routledge Handbook of Europe‑Korea Relations (Routledge, 2022).

Dr. Carla Freeman joins USIP after more than a decade as a member of the China Studies faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where she also directed the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute. Previously, she worked on international civil society and sustainable development for The Johnson Foundation and as a political risk consultant focused on Asia. 

Dr. Freeman holds a doctorate in international relations and China from SAIS in addition to degrees from Yale University and Sciences Po. She specializes in China's foreign policy, nontraditional security issues, and U.S.-China relations. She is the author of multiple edited books, monographs, and articles. Recent published work includes a comparative study of China’s policies in the high seas and outer space, which won The China Quarterly's 2020 Gordon White Prize.

Daniel Fiott is the Head of the Defence and Statecraft programme at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Brussels School of Governance, where he is also Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Daniel is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Madrid-based Elcano Royal Institute.

Dr. Edwin J. Feulner is founder and former president of The Heritage Foundation. His vision and leadership transformed the think tank from a small policy shop into America’s powerhouse of conservative ideas and what the New York Times calls “the Parthenon of the conservative metropolis.” After serving as president from 1977 to 2013, Dr. Feulner served as president again for a brief period in 2017.

Prior to his time at the Heritage Foundation, Dr. Feulner was the executive director of the Republican Study Committee, a caucus in the House of Representatives. He served as a member of the Gingrich-Mitchell Congressional U.N. Reform Task Force (2005) and the Congressional Commission on International Financial Institutions ("Meltzer Commission") from 1999-2000, and was Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (1982-91) and Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform ("Kemp Commission") from 1995-1996.

Dr. Feulner graduated from Regis University with double majors in English and business, and received an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business in 1964. He later attended Georgetown University and the London School of Economics, and then earned a doctorate degree at the University of Edinburgh in 1981.

Dr. Feulner is the author of nine books: The American Spirit (2012), Getting America Right (2006), Leadership for America (2000), Intellectual Pilgrims (1999), The March of Freedom (1998), Conservatives Stalk the House (1983), Looking Back (1981), Congress and the New International Economic Order(1976), and Trading with the Communists (1968).

Francesca Frassineti teaches History of Contemporary East Asia at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Dr. Frassineti has extensive experience working in the academia-policy-public engagement nexus in the fields of international diplomacy and security. Her research focuses thematically on security and political economy within the Korean Peninsula and the Indo-Pacific as well as in relation to Europe. Moreover, she is a non-resident research fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies and the Italian Institute for Political Studies (ISPI).

Richard Fontaine is the Chief Executive Officer of CNAS. He served as President of CNAS from 2012–19 and as Senior Fellow from 2009–12. Prior to CNAS, he was foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain and worked at the State Department, the National Security Council (NSC), and on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Fontaine currently serves as executive director of the Trilateral Commission and on the Defense Policy Board. He has been an adjunct professor in the security studies program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Rüdiger Frank is Professor of East Asian Economy and Society – EcoS, and Head of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna. He holds an M.A. in Korean Studies, Economics and International Relations and a Ph.D. in Economics. In 1991/1992, he spent one semester as a language student at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang and has been researching North Korea ever since. Visiting positions included Columbia University New York, Korea University Seoul and Seoul National University. His major research fields are socialist transformation in East Asia (with a focus on North Korea), state-business relations in East Asia, and regional integration in East Asia.
His most recent books are: (2018) „Unterwegs in Nordkorea: Eine Gratwanderung“, and (2017) „Nordkorea: Innenansichten eines totalen Staates“ (revised edition).
Prof. Frank is regularly consulted by governments, media and businesses on North Korea and East Asia. Since June 2011, he has been working with the World Economic Forum, currently in its Global Future Council on the Korean Peninsula. In September 2013, the leading German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung included Prof. Frank in its list of the 50 most influential German economists.

Ryan Fedasiuk is a research analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). His work explores military applications of artificial intelligence, as well as China’s efforts to acquire foreign technology. Prior to joining CSET, Ryan worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Arms Control Association, the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, and the Council on Foreign Relations, where he primarily covered aerospace and nuclear issues. His writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, Defense One, the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief, and CFR’s Net Politics. Ryan holds a B.A. in International Studies and a minor in Russian from American University (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). He is enrolled as an M.A. candidate in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, where he also studies Chinese.

Christopher Green is an assistant professor in the Korean Studies department of Leiden University in the Netherlands and senior Korean peninsula consultant for the Brussels-based International Crisis Group. He can be reached at c.k.green@hum.leideununiv.nl or cgreen@crisisgroup.org.

Dr Euan Graham

Euan Graham is a Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Security based in the Singapore office of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is also responsible for furthering research within the IISS on defence and strategy in the Indo-Pacific. He also supports the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue and other activities run by IISS–Asia. He has expertise on Australia’s strategic policy, maritime and naval issues in the Asia-Pacific region, the geopolitics of the Korean Peninsula and Japan.

Before joining the IISS in March 2020, Graham was previously executive director of La Trobe Asia, at La Trobe University, in Melbourne. Between 2015 and 2018, he was director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Programme, in Sydney. Euan has previously worked in Singapore, as a senior fellow with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, where he specialised in maritime affairs. Before that, he served with the UK government for seven years as a research analyst in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, variously covering the Korean Peninsula, Japan and Southeast Asia. He has written and commented widely for international media on a range of Asia-Pacific security issues. He is currently completing a book for the IISS on Australia-China security relations.

Professor Gyunyoung Heo received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Nuclear and Quantum Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, Korea, in 1990, 1999, and 2004, respectively. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Kyung Hee University, South Korea. His research interest lies in analyzing the performance and reliability for industrial plants based on statistical and intelligent data processing. His major activities include the development of plant simulation codes and operator aid systems, probabilistic safety and security assessments for nuclear facilities. He is particularly interested in their synergetic outcomes to improve nuclear safety.

Ken Gause is the director of the International Affairs Group, a part of CNA's Center for Strategic Studies. He is CNA's senior foreign leadership analyst and has spent the last 20 years developing methodologies for examining leadership dynamics of hard-target, authoritarian regimes. In particular, he is an internationally respected expert on North Korea who has written three books on North Korean leadership. His latest book is "North Korean House of Cards: Leadership Dynamics Under Kim Jong-un." Gause has also published numerous articles on leadership structures for such publications as Jane's Intelligence Review, Jane's Defense Weekly, and the Korean Journal of Defense Analysis. He has a B.A. from Vanderbilt in Russian and Political Science and an M.A. from The George Washington University in Soviet and East European Affairs.

Matthew P. Goodman is senior vice president for economics and holds the Simon Chair in Political Economy at CSIS. The CSIS Economics Program, which he directs, focuses on international economic policy and global economic governance. Before joining CSIS in 2012, Goodman served as director for international economics on the National Security Council staff, helping the president prepare for global and regional summits, including the G20, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and East Asia Summit. Prior to the White House, Goodman was senior adviser to the undersecretary for economic affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Before joining the Obama administration in 2009, he worked for five years at Albright Stonebridge Group, where he was managing director for Asia. From 2002 to 2004, he served at the White House as director for Asian economic affairs on the National Security Council staff. Prior to that, he spent five years at Goldman, Sachs & Co., heading the bank’s government affairs operations in Tokyo and London. From 1988 to 1997, he worked as an international economist at the U.S. Treasury Department, including five years as financial attaché at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo.

Goodman holds an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and chairman emeritus of the board of trustees of the Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C.

Min Hee Go is an Associate Professor in the department of Political Science and International Relations at Ewha Womans University, South Korea. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2012 and taught as assistant professor at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research interests broadly concern key issues in diversity and sustainability, including gender, race and ethnicity, and sustainable development. Her book, Rethinking Community Resilience: The Politics of Disaster Recovery in New Orleans, was published at NYU Press in 2021.

Mirna Galic is a senior policy analyst for China and East Asia at the United States Institute of Peace and a nonresident senior fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs.

Allison Hooker is a foreign policy and national security specialist with 20 years of experience in the U.S. Government working on Asia. Allison served for more than six years on the National Security Council staff, including as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asia, where she led the coordination and implementation of U.S. policy toward the Indo-Pacific region, and coordinated policy approaches with allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific and Europe. Prior to that, Allison served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for the Korean Peninsula, where she focused on U.S. policy toward the Koreas, and staffed the President for all engagements with North and South Korea, including the U.S.-DPRK Summits in Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ.

Prior to her service at the White House, Allison was a senior analyst for North Korea in the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research from 2001 to 2014. In that role, she staffed the Six-Party Talks on North Korea’s nuclear program and provided analytical support to U.S. negotiators.

Allison was selected as the 2013-2014 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in South Korea, where she focused on South Korea’s Unification Policy. She received a Masters’ of Arts Degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Public Administration from Georgia College and State University. Allison also was a research fellow at Osaka University and Keio University, where she focused on Japan-Korea relations, and Japan-China relations, respectively. Allison is a native of Macon, Georgia.

Dr. HOO Chiew-Ping is Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies and International Relations, National University of Malaysia (UKM). She is concurrently Co-Founder and Co-Convenor of East Asian International Relations (EAIR) Caucus, Adjunct Lecturer at the Malaysian Armed Forces Defence College (MAFDC), and Editorial Board Member of the AUP Politics and IR in Asia Series, Amsterdam University Press. Her main research interests include US-ROK alliance strategy towards North Korean provocations, Southeast Asia-North Korea relations, ASEAN-Korea partnership, and nuclear security in Asia-Pacific. From 2021 until early 2023, Dr. Hoo was a member of Asia Pacific Nuclear Advisory Panel (APNAP), established by the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), a think-tank based in London promoting understanding on nuclear risks and nuclear security. Hoo is the editor of The New Southern Policy: Catalyst for Deepening ASEAN-ROK Relations (ISIS Malaysia, 2020), and a forthcoming co-editing book volume (with Shine Choi and Brian Bridges) on Southeast Asia-DPRK relations. She received her PhD in Politics and International Relations from La
Trobe University, Australia.

Hyoungmin Han is a research fellow at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP). Prior to joining KIEP, Dr. Han worked on trade and labor research at WTO and ILO. Dr. Han earned his Ph.D. in international economics from the Geneva Graduate Institute. He earned his undergraduate degree in Economics from Yonsei University. Han’s research area is in international trade, development, especially focusing on how changes in market conditions (e.g., trade policies, regulation) affect firm-level performance. His recent policy work lies in the fields of Global Value Chain and Indian economies, by implementing firm-level surveys and data works to produce solid evidence for policy suggestions.

Chancellor Hyunik Hong is currently head of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy. From 1997 to 2021, he served as Senior Research Fellow at the Sejong Institute's Department of Security Strategy Studies, where he was director from 2015 to 2016. Chancellor Hong has held numerous other governmental positions as well, most notably as member of the Policy Advisory Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, member of the Policy Advisory Committee of the Office of National Security, member of the Advisory Committee of Diplomacy Activity at the National Assembly, and member of the Inter-Korean Relations Development Committee at the Ministry of Unification. He received his B.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University, M.A. in Political Science from Seoul National University, and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Paris.

Jennifer Hendrixson White is an expert on national security issues related to China and the Indo-Pacific, international economics, artificial intelligence and emerging technology. She served in senior positions across the U.S. government from 2010 to 2025, working on a range of Asian security, economic, and technology issues at the State Department, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Senate, as well as at the Pentagon, USINDOPACOM, and the National Security Council. Ms. White is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for New American Security and the Founder and Managing Partner of Scalare Advisors. Jennifer earned a Master of Arts degree from the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies, where she focused on China, Southeast Asia and International Economics.

Dr. Jihwan HWANG is Professor of International Relations at the University of Seoul, Korea. He was visiting scholar at the Catholic University of America and also taught inter-Korean relations at the George Washington University. He has served as several advisory positions in the Korean government, including Presidential Commission on Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Unification. His publications include "The Paradox of South Korea's Unification Diplomacy," "The Two Koreas after U.S. Unipolarity," "the Political Implications of American Military Policy in Korea," etc. He is a graduate of Seoul National University and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder. 

Dr. Joanna Hosaniak has been with the Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR) in Seoul, South Korea since 2004, currently working as the deputy director of the organization. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Yonsei University’s GSIS. She received her M.A. in Korean Studies at the Warsaw University and her Ph.D degree at the Sogang University’s GSIS in 2016. Hosaniak led an extensive international advocacy contributing to the establishment of the UN Commission of Inquiry for DPRK in 2013 and the UN Panel of Experts on Accountability in the DPRK in 2016. In recognition of her work, Hosaniak was conferred a title of Seoul Honorary Citizen by the Mayor of Seoul in 2013, and was also named as “100 future leaders of Korea” by Donga Daily newspaper in 2013. She also received Korean Separated Families Award in 2018, and the First Forget-Me-Not Award by Mulmangcho in 2022 for international campaign highlighting the plight of unreturned South Korean prisoners of Korean War.

Kim Hwang-rok - Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency; Lieutenant General of the Republic of Korea Army; PhD in North Korean studies; Author of Kim Jong-un Regime's Nuclear Power Advancement and Its Counter-Coercive Strategy against the United States (2020), North Korea's Latest Missile Technology Development and Threats (2020), The North Korean Nuclear and Missile Crisis and Strengthening Intelligence Capabilities (2022), and more.

Dr. HA Kyoung-Seok (Kris) is a Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS) in Seoul, Korea. His research areas include the Multilateral Security Strategy, ROK-US Relations, and United Nations politics. Previously, Dr. Ha was a Research Professor at the Ilmin International Relations Institute, Korea University, and Lecturer at the Chungbuk National University of Korea. He was a Visiting Research Collaborator (pre-doc) at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Security Studies (CISS), Princeton University. Dr. Ha’s recent publications include, “2024 U.S. Presidential Election and the Republic of Korea’s Security Risks” (2024); “Liberal International Order and the United Nations after the Ukraine-Russia War: The Advent of a New Global Order?” (2022).

Hideyuki Miura is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Kyorin University. Prior to taking up his position, he was a Research Associate at the Asian Development Bank Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration, Waseda University. He was also a Junior Visiting Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs. His current research interests include International Political Economy particularly focusing on trade policy and economic security policy in the Asia-Pacific and Indo Pacific. His recent publications include ‘Establishing Multilateral and Regional Rules on Digital Trade: The Role of Japan and Middle Powers’ (in Vinod K. Aggarwal eds, Great Power Competition and Middle Power Strategies: Economic Statecraft in the Asia-Pacific Region, Springer, 2023). He received his BA from Sophia University, and MA and Ph.D. in International Relations from Waseda University.

Yee Kuang HENG is Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo. After completing his BSc (First Class Hons) and PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Dr. Heng held faculty posts at Trinity College Dublin; the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and the National University of Singapore. He is also Senior Academic Visitor at Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Current research interests include national risk assessment exercises and existential risks (AI and climate change-conflict); UK-Japan defence cooperation and more broadly Japan’s military presence in the Indo-Pacific. Recent publications include “UK-Japan military exercises and mutual strategic reassurance”, Defence Studies, Vol. 21 Issue 3 (2021); “Japan’s significance for the United Kingdom’s shaping ambitions in the Indo-Pacific”, East Asian Policy (forthcoming 2022), “Enhancing Europe’s Global Power in Asia 2030”, Global Policy, Vol. 11 Issue 1 (2020); “Shaping the Indo-Pacific? Japan and Europeanisation”, LSE IDEAS Strategic Update (2021); “Military Evolution and Japan’s Self-Defense Forces” in Nicole Jenne and Alan Chong (eds) Asian Military Evolutions (Bristol University Press, forthcoming 2023)

Dr. Jun Bong-Geun is a professor at the Department of Security and Unification Studies at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS) in the Korean National Diplomatic Academy. Jun has held several governmental and non-governmental positions: Acting President of IFANS (2019 – 2020), Policy Advisor to the Minister of Unification (2003 – 2004), Secretary to the President for international security affairs at the Presidential Office (1993-1997), and professional staffer at KEDO New York headquarters (1997-2001). Jun was also visiting fellow at the Asia Foundation Center for U.S-Korea Policy in Washington, D.C. (2010) and Geneva Center for Security Studies in Geneva (2015). Jun’s research area covers the North Korean nuclear dilemma, inter-Korean relations, nonproliferation, nuclear security, and nuclear energy policies. Dr. Jun graduated with a BA and MA in International Relations from Seoul National University and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Oregon.

Dr. Chang Soo Jin, a former president of the Sejong Institute, received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Tokyo in 1994 and has been a Sejong senior fellow since 1996. Dr. Jin was a visiting researcher at the Institution for Social Science, the University of Tokyo from 2001 to 2002, and a visiting scholar at the department of Law, Kyoto University in 2002.

Dr. Jin was a specially-invited-professor at Hokaido University from 2011 to 2012 and a visiting scholar at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University from 2010 to 2011. Dr. Chang Soo Jin has been a board member of Comparative Politics Committee of the Korea Political Science Association and director of the Contemporary Japan Association since 2003. Dr. Chang soo Jin has been the director of the center for Japan Studies at the Sejong Institute since 2002. He had been the President of the Sejong Institute since his inauguration in June 2015 to May 2018.

Choo Jaewoo is professor of Chinese foreign policy in the Department of Chinese Studies at Kyung Hee University, Korea.

Dongho Jo is a professor of North Korean Studies at Ewha Womans University. He graduated from Seoul National University and received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He has held numerous positions such as President of the Institute for National Security Strategy under the National Intelligence Service, Director of Korea Eximbank Research Institute for North Korea, Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Unification, President of North Korean Economic Forum, Director of North Korean Economic Studies at Korea Development Institute.

Hae-Won JUN is an Associate Professor at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Korea. She was a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the German Marshall Fund of the United States and Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. Her publications include ‘Cooperation in the field of international peace and security: a newcomer to the legal framework for EU-Korea relations’, ‘European Experience and Lessons’, ‘Preventive Diplomacy and Crisis Management in EU-Korea Security Relations’ (with Michael Reiterer), and ‘EU-ROK in crisis management’ (forthcoming). He is a graduate of Yonsei University and received her MSc in EU Policy-making at the London School of Economics and Political Science and her D.Phil. in Political Science from the University of Oxford, UK. The views expressed in this article are her own and are not to be construed as representing those of the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Dr. Hanbeom Jeong is currently Professor at the Korea National Defense University. He also served as policy advisor at the Office of National Security and Department of National Unification, and permanent advisor at the  National Peaceful Unification Advisory Council. Dr. Jeong is also a member of the Nomination Committee of the Democratic Party of Korea and the Educational Center for National Unification. He received his Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Hyun-jung Je is Chief Representative of KITA Washington Center in Korea International Trade Association. She is now in charge of advising and supporting Korean trade companies which are involved in trade issues in the U.S. and also connects and plays a bridging role between Korean businesses and the US governments, congress and think tanks. She worked as a researcher at the Institute for International Trade (IIT), a branch of the KITA, focusing on Korea’s trade and its free trade agreements. She also served as a private advisor for trade negotiations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade from 2016 to 2018, during which Korea concluded a free trade agreement with the U.S. She was also involved in the negotiations on goods of the Korea-Canada and the Korea-India FTAs.
Hyun-jung Je holds Ph.D. in International Studies (major in international commerce) and M.A. in International Relations from Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Seoul National University.

Jakub Janda specializes in European policy to Russia and China, also specifically to the response of democratic states to hostile influence operations. Outside of his civilian job, he serves as an officer of Active Reserves of the Czech Armed Forces within the Czech Cyber and Information Warfare Command.

Between 2016 – 2017, he was tasked by Czech security and intelligence institutions to consult on “the Influence of Foreign Powers” chapter within the Audit of National Security conducted by the Czech government, where he was involved in the Czech policy shift on this issue. Since 2015, he has been asked to provide briefings and trainings in more than 20 countries. He has delivered expert briefings and testimonies to Members of the U.S. Congress, NATO Political Committee or to the European Parliament Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation (INGE).

In January 2022, he established EVC Taiwan Office, making EVC the first European think-tank to set up permanent presence in Taiwan. Between 2024 and 2025, he served as visiting fellow at Taiwanese Defense Ministry think-tank, the Institute of National Defence and Security Research (INDSR), conducting simulations of Chinese operations against Taiwan and its implications for European security.

Dr. JANG Ji-Hyang is a Principal Fellow and director of the Center for Regional Studies at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Dr. Jang served as a policy advisor on Middle East issues to South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2012-2018) and currently serves to Ministries of Industry, Justice, and Defense. Her research interests include political economy of the Middle East and North Africa, political Islam, comparative democratization, terrorism, and state-building. Dr. Jang is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Essential Guide to the Middle East (Sigongsa 2023 in Korean), The Arab Spring: Will It Lead to Democratic Transitions?(with Clement M. Henry (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan 2013), “Disaggregated ISIS and the New Normal of Terrorism” (Asan Issue Brief 2016), “Islamic Fundamentalism” (International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 2008) and a Korean translation of Fawaz Gerges’ Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy (Asan Institute 2011). Dr. Jang received a B.A. in Turkish studies and M.A. in political science from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. JANG Ji-Hyang is a Principal Fellow and director of the Center for Regional Studies at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Dr. Jang served as a policy advisor on Middle East issues to South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2012-2018). Previously, Dr. Jang taught comparative and Middle East politics at Seoul National University, Yonsei University, Ewha Woman’s University, and the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Her research interests include political economy of the Middle East and North Africa, political Islam, comparative democratization, terrorism, and state-building. Dr. Jang is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Essential Guide to the Middle East (Sigongsa 2023 in Korean), The Arab Spring: Will It Lead to Democratic Transitions?(with Clement M. Henry (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan 2013), “Disaggregated ISIS and the New Normal of Terrorism” (Asan Issue Brief 2016), “Islamic Fundamentalism” (International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 2008) and a Korean translation of Fawaz Gerges’ Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy (Asan Institute 2011). Dr. Jang received a B.A. in Turkish studies and M.A. in political science from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Professor of Chinese Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (韩国外国语大学)and Head of the International Research Center（国际地域研究中心）. Commentator in Chinese and international issues on media outlets. He earned his M.A and Ph.D degrees from the East Aisa Research Institute(东亚研究所) of the National Cheng Chi University（国立政治大学）in Taipei, Taiwan. His main major field is contemporary Chinese political economy and International relations in Northeast Asia. He served policy advisor to the National Security Office Adviser to the President's Office and Korea Foreign Ministry, and a member of the National Assembly's foreign affairs advisory committee, the Korea Navy Development Committee. There are about 20 books and more than 100 academic papers.

Dr. Kyung-joo Jeon is a research fellow at the Center for Security and Strategy at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA) in the Republic of Korea. Her research at KIDA focuses on North Korean military and political issues, as well as the ROK defense planning. From July 2023 to July 2024, she served as a visiting fellow at the National Defense University (NDU) and concurrently as a visiting expert at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). In April 2024, she joined the advisory board to the Director of National Security in the Office of the President of the ROK.

Dr. NISHINO Junya is a Professor, Department of Political Science, Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. He also serves as Director of the Center for Contemporary Korean Studies at Keio University. His research focuses on contemporary Korean politics, international relations in East Asia and Japan-Korea relations.
Dr. Nishino was a Japan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a visiting scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University, and an exchange scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Dr. Nishino received his B.A. and M.A. from Keio University, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Yonsei University in South Korea.

Prof. Jae Jeok Park, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of International and Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul. Previously, he worked as a visiting professor at Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security(IFANS) in 2010 and a research fellow at Korea Institute for National Unification(KINU) between 2010 and 2014. His research interests include alliance politics, US security policy in Indo-Pacific, the US-ROK alliance, and the US-Australia alliance. He received his B.A and M.I.S. from Yonsei University, M.A. and M.S. from Northwestern University in the US, and Ph.D. from Australian National University (December 2009). While studying in the US, he was supported by the Fulbright Scholarship. He has received a number of research grants, including ones commissioned by South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Education. He served as a Secretary General for the CSCAP(Council on Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific)-Korea between 2015 and 2019.

Dr. Van Jackson is an American professor of international relations at Victoria University of Wellington, a distinguished fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and senior associate fellow at the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.  He is also the author of On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War (Cambridge University Press, 2018). From 2009 to 2014, he served in several strategy and policy positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. 

Zheng Jiyong was born in Suixian, Henan Province. He currently serves as Professor and Director at Center for Korean Studies, Fudan University and professor at the Center for Collaborative Innovation on Territorial Sovereignty and Maritime Rights, China. He got his Doctoral Degree at Fudan University, and had post-doctoral experiences at IFES, Kyungnam University, ROK, and KimIlSung University, DPRK. His research focuses on domestic politics in the two Koreas and bilateral and multilateral relations related to the Korean peninsula. He is the author and coauthor of more than forty scholarly articles and author or editor of five books, including ROK's Political Party Systems 2008, and ROK's Congress Politics 2017, and The “Conflict-Reconciliation” Cycle on the Korean Peninsula: A Chinese Perspective 2012, and Road Map to a Korean Peninsula Peace Regime: A Chinese Perspective 2015.

Angela Kane worked for over 35 years for the United Nations. She was assigned to New York as well as to several field missions in Asia and Africa and held posts at the Assistant- and Under-Secretary-General levels.
She is the Vice President of the International Institute for Peace in Vienna and serves as Senior Advisor to the Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Vienna Center for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.
She has been a Visiting Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (SciencesPo) and teaches at Tsinghua University/Schwarzman Scholars in Beijing. She chairs or serves on Boards in Europe, North America and Asia, focusing on political affairs, conflict resolution and artificial intelligence.

Anthony B. Kim is Research Fellow in Economic Freedom, Editor of the Index of Economic Freedom, and Manager of Global Engagement in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation.

Dr. Bo Ram Kwon is Associate Research Fellow at the Center for Security and Strategy of the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA). She is currently a visiting fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore. Her areas of expertise include U.S. security and defense strategy, nexus between U.S. foreign policy and domestic politics, ROK-US alliance and economic sanctions.

Dr. Kwon holds a B.A. in political science and business administration from Ewha Womans University and an M.A. in international relations from Korea University. She earned her doctorate degree in political science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2013.

Dr. KO, Bong-Jun is an associate professor of the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Chungnam National University, Korea and also serves as Chair of Military Studies in the Graduate School of Peace and Security Studies there. Previously, he worked for the Jeju Peace Institute, Korea, as an associate research fellow. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, USA. Dr. Ko’s main research area is international security with emphasis on U.S. foreign/security policy. His recent publications include “Future Warfare, U.S.-China competition in Autonomous Weapons, and Korea”(in Korean 2021); “Korea’s Diplomacy in the First Half of the 1980s: the Advent of Complex Realist Security Policies”(in Korean 2020); “The South China Sea and the U.S.’s Option: Continuity and Change”(in Korean 2019); “Damage Limitation and Deterrence: Theoretical and Practical Implications of the Deployment of a THAAD battery in South Korea”(in Korean 2017, among others. He received his MA in Political Science from Kent State University, USA and his BA in International Relations from Seoul National University, Korea.

Bruce Klingner is senior research fellow for northeast Asia at The Heritage Foundation. He previously served 20 years with the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, including as CIA’s deputy division chief for Korea.

Bruce Klingner specializes in Korean and Japanese affairs as the senior research fellow for Northeast Asia at The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center.
Klingner’s analysis and writing about North Korea, South Korea and Japan, as well as related issues, are informed by his 20 years of service at the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Klingner, who joined Heritage in 2007, has testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He is a frequent commentator in U.S. and foreign media. His articles and commentary have appeared in major American and foreign publications and he is a regular guest on broadcast and cable news outlets. He is a regular contributor to the international and security sections of The Daily Signal.

From 1996 to 2001, Klingner was CIA’s deputy division chief for Korea, responsible for the analysis of political, military, economic and leadership issues for the president of the United States and other senior U.S. policymakers. In 1993-1994, he was the chief of CIA’s Korea branch, which analyzed military developments during a nuclear crisis with North Korea.

Klingner is a distinguished graduate of the National War College, where he received a master’s degree in national security strategy in 2002. He also holds a master’s degree in strategic intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Middlebury College in Vermont.

He is active in Korean martial arts, attaining third-degree black belt in taekwondo and first-degree black belt in hapkido and teuk kong moo sool.

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Dr. Kim Dongchan is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of International Studies of Yonsei University and an executive committee member of the Yonsei Institute for Sinology (YIS). He has mainly focused on U.S.-China Relations in Strategic Domains and its impact on the Korean Peninsula, and Chinese foreign policy on the Korean Peninsula.

Ellen Kim is deputy director of the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she is also a senior fellow. Her research focuses on U.S.-Korea relations and U.S.-China strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific. She joined the Korea Chair upon its inception in 2009 and previously served as associate director and fellow before her departure in 2015. She holds a PhD in political science and international relations from the University of Southern California, an MPP from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a BA in international relations and Japanese studies from Wellesley College.

Gordon Kang is a Senior Analyst in the Regional Security Architecture Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Singapore, a Fellow at 38 North's Emerging Scholars 2024-2025 Cohort, and a Young Leader with the Pacific Forum. He previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Korea Centre, East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore, and at the Korean Studies Research Hub and Gender, Environment and Migration Cluster, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. He holds a Master in International Relations (Advanced) from the Australian National University (ANU), and a Bachelor's in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from the same university. He has previously published in the peer-reviewed journal The Pacific Review, and commentary platforms such as The Diplomat and The Interpreter.

Dr. KIM, Hankwon is an associate professor of the Department of Asian and Pacific Studies and the head of Center for Chinese Studies at Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA), MOFA. Before joining KNDA, Dr. Kim was a research fellow and the director of the Center for Regional Studies and the Center for China Studies at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul, South Korea. He completed a postdoctoral program at Tsinghua University, China, then worked as a research fellow at Tsinghua University’s Institute of International Strategy and Development. He was also a research scholar at the School of International Studies, Peking University, China. Dr. Kim holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from American University, USA. He is co-author of U.S.-China Strategic Competition (Seoul: Paper Road, 2020) and China Complex (Seoul: Asan Institute for Policy Studies, 2014). He has also published articles in several academic books and journals, including "The 30 Years of ROK-PRC Foreign Relations" Review of International and Area Studies Vol. 31, No. 2 (2022, Summer).

Dr. KIM, Hankwon is an associate professor of the Department of Asian and Pacific Studies and the head of Center for Chinese Studies at Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA), MOFA. Before joining KNDA, Dr. Kim completed a postdoctoral program at Tsinghua University, China, then worked as a research fellow and the director of the Center for Regional Studies and the Center for China Studies at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul, South Korea. Dr. Kim received his B.A. (political science) and M.P.A. from the University of Connecticut at Storrs, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from American University, USA. He is co-author of U.S.-China Strategic Competition (Seoul: Paper Road, 2020). He has also published articles in several academic books and journals, including "The 30 Years of ROK-PRC Foreign Relations" Review of International and Area Studies Vol. 31, No. 2 (2022, Summer); “Evaluating China’s Soft Power: Dimensions of Norms and Attraction” in Assessing China’s Power Ed by Jae Ho Chung (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Hyun-Wook Kim is currently Professor and Director-General at Korea National Diplomatic Academy. His research areas include ROK-US alliance, US-DPRK relations and Northeast Asian security. He was an advisory member for the 20th Presidential Inauguration Preparation Committee in which he has written President’s inaugural speech. He is now a policy advisory member for the National Security Council, a non-resident director for Korea Foundation, a policy advisor for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Registration Review Committee Member at Korean Bar Association. He was an advisory member for the Ministry of Unification, a standing member for the National Unification Advisory Council, and an honorary professor at Korean Naval Academy. He was a visiting scholar at UC San Diego and George Washington University. He has finished his Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from Brown University, and worked at the University of Southern California as a postdoctoral fellow. He received his B.A. in political science from Yonsei University. He can be reached at hwkim08@mofa.go.kr.

Kim Inhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science & International Relations at Ewha Womans University. He holds a PhD from the University of Virginia.

Jaechun Kim is a professor of International Relations at the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) at Sogang University and currently Dean for Sogang GSIS. He is political scientist trained at Yale University (MA in International Relations; Ph.D. in Political Science). Before joining Sogang, he worked at Yale University as lecturer for the Department of Political Science and Yale Center for the International and Area Studies (YCIAS). He is currently a member of the advisory board for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Republic of Korea (ROK). He was a member of the Government Performance Evaluation Committee and a member of Presidential Committee for Unification Preparation in ROK. He served as the director of Sogang University’s Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) and the dean of Sogang GSIS. He was a Fulbright visiting fellow to the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University and a visiting scholar to Denver University. Earlier in his career, he worked for the National Assembly of ROK as a legislative assistant. His research interests include International Security, US Foreign Policy, Northeast Asia Regional Affairs, and Inter-Korean Relations.

Jin-Ha Kim is currently senior research fellow at the Korea Institute of National Unification (KINU); and adjunct professor at Hallyim University of Graduate Studies. His research interests lie in Comparative Authoritarianism, East Asian Security, Nuclear Strategy and Proliferation of North Korea. Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Chicago in 2009.

Dr. Jina Kim is a Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses and Adjunct Professor at Yonsei Graduate School of International Studies. As Chief of the North Korean Military Affairs Division at KIDA, she specializes in US-North Korea relations and nuclear nonproliferation. At Yonsei GSIS, she teaches International Relations and Humanitarian Intervention. She is on the Advisory Committee for the Blue House National Security Office and the Policy Evaluation Committee for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the Ministry of National Unification and the Public Information Committee of the Blue House. She previously served the Advisory Committee for the ROK-US Combined Forces Command and the Policy Evaluation Committee for the Prime Minister’s Office. Her recent publication in academic journals includes "Limiting North Korea's Coercive Nuclear Leverage" (Survival 2020) and "The Dilemma of Nuclear Disarmament" (International Spectator 2020). She recently authored Cooperative Threat Reduction and the Korean Peninsula (KIDA 2020) and co- authored New Thinking on Persistent Security Challenges in the Asia Pacific (NCAFP 2021), EU-Korea Security Relations (Routledge 2021), Korean Peninsula and Indo-Pacific Power Politics (Routledge 2020), Pathways to Peace (Hudson Institute 2020), Korea Net Assessment (CEIP 2020) and many others. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Jiye Kim is an Assistant Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Japan) and a researcher affiliated with the University of Sydney (Australia). Previously, she contributed to Macquarie University (Australia) as an Assistant Professor (AU: Lecturer). Her research focuses on international security and employs an interdisciplinary approach to advance our understanding of imminent planetary challenges. Building on her research, she regularly teaches courses on Asia-Pacific Politics, Geopolitics and Geostrategy, Strategy and Security in the Indo-Pacific Region, incorporating critical issues in emerging areas such as Climate, Health, Space, among others.

Jong-dae Kim is a visiting professor at the Yonsei University Institute for North Korean Studies and CBS guest commentator. He is also a military critic and politician, serving as the editor-in-chief of the monthly military magazine Defense 21+. He has gained administrative experience in defense from the Young-sam Kim, Dae Jung Kim, and Moo-Hyun Roh governments, and joined the Justice Party in August 2015 and became the head of the Defense Reform Planning Group of the same party in October of the same year. In the 20th National Assembly election, he participated as a candidate for proportional representation of the Justice Party and was elected as the National Defense Commissioner.

Joon Hyung Kim is chancellor of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA), an affiliated institution of the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to being appointed as chancellor, he served as professor at Handong Global University’s Department of International Studies (1999-2019), planning director and director of the Foreign Policy Research Center at the Korea Peace Forum (2013-2019), member of the State Affairs Planning Advisory Committee’s Subcommittee for Foreign Affairs and Security (2017), member of the National Security Council Advisory Committee (2017-2019), Advisory Committee Chair for Reforming the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2017-2019), and member of the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning (2017-2019). Chancellor Kim graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from Yonsei University and holds both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from George Washington University.

Before joining the Sejong Institute, Dr. Kim, Jungsup served for 27 years as a civil servant at the Ministry of National Defense of the ROK government. During this time, he held various positions of director for defense budget, military organization, and international policy.



In addition, he served as a staff member of the National Security Council(NSC) in presidential office for 4 years. Most recently, Dr. Kim was Deputy Minister for Planning and Coordination at the Ministry of National Defense.



He graduated from Seoul National University in 1993 and earned Ph.D in International Relations at the University of Oxford in 2005.

Dr. Lee Kitae currently serves as a Senior Fellow at Sejong Institute in Seoul, South Korea. He obtained his Ph.D degree from Keio University, majoring in Political Science. He was a Post-doc fellow at BK21 Research Project for Department of Political Science & International Studies of Yonsei University from 2012 to 2013; a lecturer at Seoul National University, Yonsei University, Duksung Women’s University, and Korea Military Academy from 2012 to 2015; a research fellow at Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies from 2013 to 2014; research fellow at Institute of Japanese Studies of Kookmin University from 2014 to 2015; a Director of Global Strategy Research Division at the Korea Institute for National Unification(KINU) from 2015-2024. His main area of research interest is Japanese Security Policy, International Relations in East Asia, and North Korea-Japan Relations.

D.Soc.Sc. (Pol.), LTC (ret. FI A) Mika Kerttunen is Director, Cyber Policy Institute; Adjunct Professor Military Strategy, Finnish National Defence University; Member of Board, Swedish Defence University, and Visiting Researcher (cyber warfare), The German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Mika’s main research interests center on cyber conflict prevention and on building national, societal and organizational resilience through transparent and rule of law-based policies and strategies. These themes and objectives are being covered through his advice to various governments and cyber capacity building Mika served as a consultant to the Estonian delegation in the 2015-2015 UN Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security and as an advisor in the Finnish delegation in the UN GGE 2016-2017.

Dr. Minsung Kim is a Research Fellow at Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU). Prior to her current position, Dr. Kim was a research professor at Ilmin International Relations Institute (IIRI), Korea University, and a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Her research interests include North Korean nuclear issue, economic sanctions, ROK-U.S. alliance, and U.S. foreign policy. Dr. Kim received her Ph.D. in International Relations from Korea University.

Park, Ki-Chul
After graduating from the Korea Military Academy and the U.S. CBRN School, Lieutenant Colonel Park, Ki-Chul received a Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Korea University. Currently, he is serving as a Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction planning officer at the U.S. Eighth Army Headquarters. Also, he is serving as an adjunct professor for the Graduate School of Policy Studies at Korea University.

Patricia M. Kim is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at Brookings and holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. She is an expert on Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and U.S. alliance management and regional security dynamics in East Asia.

Professor Ryan Ko is the Chair Professor and founding Director of UQ Cyber
Research Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is an internationally
renowned expert in cyber autonomy, provenance, crime attribution and cyber policy.
For more than a decade, he has served as an expert at ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27,
edited two ISO standards in the ISO/IEC 27000 family, and recently co-chaired
Singapore’s standards on Cyber Essentials and Cyber Trust Mark. He grandfathered
(ISC)2’s CCSP certification, and was commissioned by NZ’s Department of Prime
Minister and Cabinet to draft NZ’s national cyber security curriculum (NZQA Level 6).
Through his academic roles, he co-founded several national and global cyber
security competitions. He has published more than 150 publications in the areas of
AI, AI security, cyber security autonomy, data provenance and privacy, policy studies,
and his work has been translated and adopted worldwide including organisations
such as INTERPOL, CERN, and Hewlett Packard. He is a Fellow of the Australian
Computer Society, Fellow of Cloud Security Alliance and Fellow of the Queensland
Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Saeme Kim is a KF Indo-Pacific Programme Visiting Fellow at RUSI. Her research interests include the international relations of East Asia, particularly concerning regionalism, North Korea and middle power diplomacy. Prior to joining RUSI, Saeme was a resident fellow at Pacific Forum International and a researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) in South Korea. She received her PhD from King’s College London.

Seonjou KANG is a professor at Korea National Diplomatic Academy-Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (KNDA-IFANS). Her research centers on rules-based international order/global governance, geo-economics of Asian regionalism, and middle power diplomacy. Her widely cited in-house papers include “G7 Summit 2021 and the Post-Pandemic International Order,” “Global Response to COVID-19: Politicization of Infectious Diseases and Decline of Global Cooperation,” “US-China Competition for Monetary Finance Hegemony,” “The US Indo-Pacific Strategy as Geo-economics,” “U.S. President-Elect Trump’s Foreign Economic Policies: Their Feasibility and Implications,” “Two-Year Performance Assessment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: China’s Economic Statecraft or a Multilateral Development Bank?”. She also published academic research in Korean Journal of International Studies (2020, 2015), European Journal of Political Research (2007), The Journal of Politics (2005), and Journal of Peace Research (2004). She received her Ph.D. in political science from Michigan State University in 2000. Her other degrees are B.A. in international relations and M.A. in political science both from Seoul National University in Korea.

Soo Kim is a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation and an adjunct instructor at American University. Her research interests include the Korean Peninsula, Russia, Indo-Pacific strategy, near-peer competition, decisionmaking, propaganda, and the intelligence community. She served as an analyst in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and also worked at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

A native Korean speaker, Kim is a contributor to the Nikkei Asian Review and the Lowy Institute's The Interpreter, and has published articles in The Hill, The Diplomat, The National Interest, National Review, and other publications. She comments frequently on Korean Peninsula and East Asia issues in international media, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, CNN, PBS, Bloomberg, Voice of America, BBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Handelsblatt, Chosun Ilbo, and Donga Ilbo.

Kim earned an M.A. in international relations/strategic studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a B.A. in French from Yale University. 

Dr. Sung Il Kwang received Ph.D. in history of the Middle East and Africa from Tel-Aviv University and his M.A. in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is research professor at the Euro-MENA Institute, Sogang University in Seoul. He serves as policy advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and president of Korean Association of Israel Studies. 2008-2012 he worked as a correspondent for Yonhap News Agency in Jerusalem. He has published many books and articles on the Middle East, including Mamluks in the .

Yang-Gyu Kim is a Principal Researcher at East Asia Institute and a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Florida International University (2019) and received his Master’s (2014) and Bachelor’s degrees (2008) in International Relations from Seoul National University. Kim was a Visiting Scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University (2020-2021). He also taught IR theory, security, and foreign policy courses at Florida International University as an Adjunct Professor (2020-2021). Kim joined the Ph.D. program with a Fulbright Graduate Study Award and received the Smith Richardson Foundation’s “World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship” award for his dissertation work. Kim’s research focuses on international security, including coercive diplomacy, nuclear weapons strategy, power transition, U.S.-China relations, and North Korea. His recent works include “At the Brink of Nuclear War: Feasibility of Retaliation and the U.S. Policy Decisions During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis” and “The Feasibility of Punishment and the Credibility of Threats: Case Studies on the First Moroccan and the Rhineland Crises.”

Yongshin Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of China Studies at Inha University, South Korea. He serves as the Department Chair and Director of the Inha Institute for China Studies. His research interests include politics and political economy of China, the U.S.-China technology competition, industrial policy, and economic security. His recent works have been published in the Journal of Chinese Political Science, Korean Political Science Review, Pacific Focus, The Pacific Review, and China: An International Journal, among others. (yongshin@inha.ac.kr)

Yongshin KIM is an Assistant Professor in the Department of China Studies at Inha University, Incheon, South Korea. Previously, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Chinese Commerce and Finance at Sejong University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He was the first cohort fellow of the New China Study Program, which is the Chinese government-established scholarship program to support young foreign China scholars researching China in-depth. He has also studied and researched various Chinese universities, such as Peking University, Nankai University, China Foreign Affairs University, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, etc. His research interests include China's politics and political economy, international relations of East Asian countries, and comparative institutional analysis. His recent works have been published in journals such as Korean Political Science Review, Pacific Focus, The Pacific Review, and China: An International Journal, among others.

Dr. Young Joon Kim is a Professor at Gyeongsang National University. He has received his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Kim writes and studies on U.S. foreign policy, Alliance politics, and U.S.-China relations. Prior to joining Gyeongsang National University, Dr. Kim was a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Strategy(INSS) where he conducted quantitative and computational analysis on Asian regional affairs.

Youngjun Kim is a Professor of National Security College of the Korea National Defense University. He is a member of the National Security Advisory Board for the Republic of Korea President's Office and a Central Committee Member of the Peaceful Unification Advisory Board Council. Dr. Kim is currently a director of the Center for Northeast Asian Affairs and the Center of North Korean Affairs at the Research Institute of National Security Affairs. His recent book is Origins of the North Korean Garrison State : The People's Army and the Korean War at Routledge.

Dr. Youngwan Kim (Ph.D. in political science, University of Iowa) is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Sogang University. His research interests include NGOs, foreign aid, international development cooperation, international organizations, and international law. With co-authored book, International Organizations, his representative works have been published in several journals like World Development, Development and Change, Foreign Policy Analysis, Disasters, etc.

As an expert in areas of unification, North Korea, and inter-Korean relations, President Yu-Hwan Koh is currently Chair of the Planning and Coordination Committee at the National Unification Advisory Council (2017~) and the Korean Peninsula Sub-committee at Policy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2018~). Previously, he served as professor at Dongguk University's Department of North Korean Studies (1994-2020), Director of the Institute for North Korean Studies at Dongguk University (2009-2020), visiting scholar at Stanford University's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (2010-2011), President of the Korean Association of North Korean Studies (2012), Chair of the Peace and Prosperity Sub-committee of Presidential Commission on Policy Planning (2017-2019), member of the experts advisory group for the inter-Korean summit (2018), as well as chair of the Policy Advisory Committee, Office of National Security, and Office of the President (2017~2020). Some of President Koh's major publications include “Peace on the Road to Unification (2019)” (in Korean), “70 Years of Division Viewed through the Lens of Inter-Korean Military Conflicts (2018)” (in Korean), “Actor-Network and Performativity of Divided Korea (2015)” (in Korean), “New Paradigm of North Korean Studies (2015)” (in Korean), and “Troubled Transition: North Korea’s Politics, Economy, and External Relations (2013)” (in English).

Professor Yun Kyung Kim earned her BA in Economics from Yonsei University and MA, MPhil, Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. Prior to INU, she was a research fellow at Korea Economic Research Institute where she served as Director of Corporate Research Department and Head of Business Analysis Team. Previously, Professor Kim worked as a legislative intern at National Assembly of Korea. Her research interests are in applied economics with a concentration in corporate finance, innovation and regulations.

Dr. Lee is an associate research fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA). Prior to his current position at KIDA, Dr. Lee was a Global Korean Studies (GKS) research professor at the Division of International Studies (2019) and a research professor at the Ilmin International Relations Institute (2015~2019) of Korea University. His research interests have been focused primarily on the issues of international security, ROK-US alliance, US-China relations, and US foreign and security policy. He recently authored and co-authored Trump Administration’s Security and Defense Policy on China (KIDA Press, 2020) and “South Korea and the 2016 US Presidential Elections: A Security-Trade Nexus Redefined?” in American Presidential Elections in a Comparative Perspective: The World is Watching (Lexington Books, 2019). Dr. Lee holds a B.A. in International Relations and Asian Studies from Lehigh University located in Pennsylvania, received a Global M.B.A. from Business School and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) of Korea University.

Ambassador Joongyu Lee is the President of the Forum of India in Korea. He
had served for almost 40 years as a career diplomat until 23 December 2017
when he officially retired. He had served in Delhi during 2012-15 as an
Ambassador. He also served in Japan and New Zealand as Ambssadors. He
completed his Bachelors and Masters in Law from Seoul National University
in 1976 and 1978 respectively. Before he went to India as an Ambassador, he
was Chancellor of the IFANS which is a training and research arm of Ministry
of Foreign Affairs. Since his retirement from public service, he has been
trying hard to contribute to betterment of Korea’s relationship with friend
countries such as India and Japan in various ways. He has been a Vice
President of the Korea-Japan Friendship Association since 2019. He was an
elected Chairman of the Korean Council on Foreign Relations from January
2020 to December 2022. He was a Chairman of the Asan Institute for Policy
Studies from March 2022 to February 2023.

David C. Logan is Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. For helpful comments on an earlier draft, he thanks, Terence Roehrig. The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Naval War College, the Department of the Navy, or the U.S. Department of Defense.

Dr. Dong-gyu LEE is a research fellow of the Center for Regional Studies at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. He is also an adjunct professor of the North-East Asian Foreign Affairs and Commerce Department at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS). Previously, Dr. Lee was a research fellow of the Global Security Cooperation Center at the HUFS (2015.03. ~ 2020.12.). His research focuses on Chinese politics and foreign policy, South Korea-China relations, and East Asia security. Dr. Lee received his B.A. and M.A. from the HUFS, and Ph.D. in politics from Tsinghua University in China.

Dr. Dong Ryul Lee is a professor of Chinese diplomacy at Dongduk Women's University in Seoul, South Korea. He received his B.A. in Chinese Studies and M.A. in Asian Studies from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and his PhD form Beijing University. He is Currently the Editorial Committee Chairman of the Chinese Society of Hyundai. In 2009, he was the Research Director of the Korean Society for World Studies and the Editor-in-Chance of the Chinese Studies Society from December 2006 to December 2009. Prior to that, he was a visiting professor at Columbia University from August 2005 to August 2006. He has been a member of the Modern Chinese Society since 2000 and a member of the Korean Political Society since 1997.

Dong Sun Lee is director of Peace and Democracy Institute and professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University. Dr. Lee received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He was a visiting scholar at the George Washington University in 2010 and a research fellow at the East-West Center in 2004-2007. His research interests include Asian security and international relations theory. He has a broad scholarly interest in asymmetric international politics and is currently completing a book that explains the varying outcomes of great powers’ attempts to stop their minor-power allies’ nuclear armament. He is author of Power Shifts, Strategy, and War: Declining States and International Conflict (Routledge) and of articles in scholarly journals, including Asian Security, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Contemporary Security Policy, Diplomacy and Statecraft, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Journal of East Asian Studies, Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Korea Observer, and Pacific Focus. He also contributed to edited volumes such as The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia (Stanford University Press) and The International Encyclopedia of Peace (Oxford University Press). Dr. Lee served on policy advisory boards for the Republic of Korea’s Ministries of Unification, Foreign Affairs, and National Defense.

LEE Dongmin, (Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science Dankook University and also serves as an Advisor to the Center for Chinese Studies at the Sejong Institute in Korea. Dr. Lee's research interests include international security with an empirical focus on China, and Northeast Asia. His teaching interests include the foreign policy analysis, and the politics and security policy of China and two Koreas. Among others, Dr. Lee has contributed to the academic journals such as Armed Forces & Society, Defence Studies, and The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis. Dr. Lee previously served as an Assistant Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and served as a visiting fellow at the Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, and the East-West Center, Hawaii, USA.

Eunjung Lim is a Professor at the Division of International Studies, Kongju National University (KNU). She was Vice President for International Affairs, Dean of Institute of International Language Education, and Dean of Institute of Korean Culture and Education at KNU.
Her areas of specialization include international cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, comparative and global governance, and energy, nuclear, and climate change policies of East Asian countries. From May 2018 to September 2024, she served as a board member of Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control (KINAC) and is currently a member of Policy Advisory Committee, the Ministry of Unification.

Before joining the KNU faculty, Dr. Lim served as an Assistant Professor at College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, in Kyoto, Japan. She also taught at several universities in the United States and Korea, including Johns Hopkins University, Yonsei University, and Korea University. She has been a researcher and a visiting fellow at academic institutes including the Center for Contemporary Korean Studies at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo, the Institute of Japanese Studies at Seoul National University, the Institute of Japan Studies at Kookmin University, and Institute of Energy Economics, Japan.

She earned a B.A. from the University of Tokyo, an M.I.A. from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

Dr. Lee Ho-ryung is the Director of Center for Security and Strategy and senior research fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses(KIDA). She served as a public officer at NSC in the Blue House(2002-2003), an advisor to the presidential secretary of foreign affairs and security in the Blue House(2007), and a director of external cooperation(2015-2017) as well as a director of North Korean Military Studies(2017-2019) in KIDA. She served as a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in the United States(2000), at Birmingham University(2009-2011), and a expert member of the foreign affairs and security department of the preparatory committee for unification (2015-2017). She published a number of books and papers, including The Study of Power Elites during the Kim Jong-un era, The changes of North Korea's provocations and inter-Korean relations, and more. She serves as an adjunct professor at Kyung-Hee University's Graduate School of Peace and Welfare, an advisor to the Ministry of Unification, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a standing member of the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council.

Horyung Lee is Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Security Strategy at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA). She handles various security issues especially focused on North Koreasuch as nuclear capability, military threat analysis, two Korea’s military negotiation strategy, inter-Korean relations, and US-North Korea relations. Dr. Lee has a Doctoral degree (2001) in political science from Korea University. She has been a central committee member of the National Unification Advisory Council since 2012.

Dr. Jaewon Lee is Senior Specialist at the Center for Economic Security and Foreign Affairs, ROK MOFA. His research interests include alliance management, economic statecraft, and evolving export controls. His publications include "Why Did the United States Choose Assurance or Coercion to Terminate the ROK’s Nuclear Pursuit?," "US-China Competition and Allied Semiconductor Export Controls," "South Korea’s Export Control System. "

Jennifer Lind is an Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and a Research Fellow at Chatham House in London. She is the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics (2008). Lind writes widely on the international security relations of East Asia and U.S. foreign policy toward the region. She is writing a new book on great-power competition between authoritarian and democratic countries.

Jessica J. Lee is a Senior Research Fellow in the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute. Her research interests include U.S. foreign policy toward the Indo-Pacific region, with an emphasis on alliances and North Korea. Jessica is a non-resident senior associate fellow at the Asia Pacific Leadership Network, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Committee on North Korea, a 2021-2022 Arms Control Negotiation Academy Fellow, and a member of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy’s 2020 U.S.-Japan-Republic of Korea Emerging Leaders Working Group. Previously, Jessica led the Council of Korean Americans, a national leadership organization for Americans of Korean descent. Prior to CKA, Jessica was a Resident Fellow at the Pacific Forum and a senior manager at The Asia Group, LLC. She began her career on Capitol Hill, where she served  as a professional staff member handling the Asia region for the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and as a senior legislative assistant on international security and trade for a member of Congress on the Ways and Means Committee. 

Jessica holds a B.A. in Political Science from Wellesley College and an A.M. in Regional Studies-East Asia from Harvard University. She has advanced proficiency in Korean.

Dr. Jong-Seok Lee is a senior research fellow at the Sejong Institute's Department of Unification Strategy Studies and concurrently serves as a James Laney Distinguished Professor of Yonsei University. Prior to this, Dr. Lee was the Republic of Korea's Minister of Unification in 2006 and Deputy Secretary-General of the National Security Council from 2003 to 2006. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea and is an expert on North Korea-China relations, inter-Korean relations, and Korea's diplomatic/security objectives.

Jongkyu Lee is a Senior Fellow at KDI. His research focuses on current macroeconomic situation of North Korea as well as its special trade relationship with China. Prior to joining KDI, he was a Research Fellow at Samsung Economic Research Institute (SERI) from 2008 to 2013. He obtained a doctorate at the University of London(UCL) in 2008. His current interest lies in understanding the impact of sanctions, marketization, dollarization, and demographic change on the DPRK economy and its policy responses.

Na Young Lee got her Ph.D in Nuclear Engineering in 2001 from Seoul National University. Her doctoral thesis was about V&V (verification and validation) for the safety critical digital I&C system. She worked in the Department of Computer Information Science in UPENN from 2001 to 2002 as a postdoctoral researcher. Then she worked in the Seoul National University from 2002 to 2006 as a postdoctoral researcher and research professor position.

Since she joined KINAC in 2006, she worked on nuclear non-proliferation and security policy. Since KINAC is a governmental affiliated organization dedicated to implement safeguards, security and export control, she focused on the regulation implementation and policy on the above subjects. Also, she involved in various international cooperation from the view of regulatory body. She had experience in working on safeguards implementation and worked as a contact point of the ROK Support program to the IAEA from 2010 to 2014. She participated in negotiation process on various bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement including one between ROK and the US.

She is currently working as a director general of the office of nuclear non-proliferation in KINAC.

Dr. Peter K. Lee is a Research Fellow in the Foreign Policy and Defence Program at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He is also a Korea Foundation Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. His work explores security dynamics in the Indo-Pacific, including US foreign policy, middle powers, alliance politics and regional cooperation. He received his PhD from the Australian National University and a Master of International Relations and a B.A. with First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne.

Rachel Minyoung Lee is Regional Issues Manager and Senior Analyst with the Vienna-based Open Nuclear Network. She is also a nonresident fellow with the 38 North Program at the Stimson Center. Rachel was a collection expert and analyst with the US Government from 2000 to 2019, during which she covered the full range of North Korea issues.

Sang Hyun Lee is President of both the Sejong Institute and the Korea Nuclear Policy Society (KNPS). He received his B.A. and M.A. from Seoul National University and Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999. 

He was a research fellow at the Korean Institute for International Studies (1987-88), the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis (1988-90), and policy advisor for Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of National Unification, and Ministry of National Defense. He has served as Director-General for Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) from May 2011 to April 2013. He is a member of Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN) for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, and Korea-US Nuclear Policy Leadership Initiative (NPLI). He has been a visiting scholar at Institute for Development and Security (ISDP) in Stockholm, Sweden, and Stimson Center in Washington DC.

Seung-yeol Lee is senior researcher at the National Assembly Research Service in South Korea. He earned a doctoral degree(Ph.D.) of North Korean Studies in 2009, and specialized in North Korean politics. He is author of the book Kim Jong il’s Choices (2009; in Korean). His recent articles are as follows; Changes in North Korea’s Military and Security Policies and Implications of the Kim Jong Un Era (2017, Journal of Peace and Unifications Vol.7, No.1); Political Transition in North Korea in the Kim Jong-un Era: Elites’ Policy Choices(2017, Asian Perspective Vol.41, No.3); The Evolution of North Korean Nuclear Issues: Diplomatic, Militaristic and Regime-change Approaches (2021, Journal of Peace and Unifications Vol.13, No.2)

Seungjoo LEE is a professor of political science and international relations at Chung-Ang
University (Seoul, Korea) and the Chair of Trade, Technology, and Transformation Research
Center at East Asia Institute. He currently serves as Chair of the Advisory Committee on
Economic Security and Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Professor Lee has
previously taught at the National University of Singapore and Yonsei University. He has also
held various positions in academic associations in Korea such as the Korean Political Science
Association and the Korean Association of International Studies. Professor Lee is the co-author
of The Political Economy of Change and Continuity in Korea: Twenty Years after the Crisis.
He also edited Northeast Asia: Ripe for Integration?, International Political Economy in
Cyberspace, Korea’s Middle Power Diplomacy, International Politics of Belt and Road, and
Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific. His publications appeared in various journals such as
Comparative Political Studies, The Pacific Review, Asian Survey, and Korean Political Science
Review. His current research focuses on the economy-security nexus, the U.S.-China
technology competition, and global digital governance. Professor Lee received his Ph.D. in
political science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Sijeong Lim is an associate professor in the Division of International Studies at Korea University. She holds a doctoral degree in Political Science from University of Washington, Seattle (2013) and worked at Stockholm University (2013-2015) and University of Amsterdam (2015-2018) before joining the faculty at Korea University. Her research examines how international and domestic politics interact to shape policy preferences and outcomes related to sustainable development in newly-industrialized and developing countries.

Soo-Ho LIM is the Senior Research Fellow of Institute for National Security Strategy(INSS). Dr. Lim’s research focuses on North Korean economy, inter-Korean economic cooperation, and nuclear non-proliferation issues including sanction. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Seoul National University in 2007.

Sook Jong Lee retired her professorship of Graduate School of Governance at Sungkyunkwan University and now serves the University as a distinguished professor. She served the East Asia Institute as President from 2008 to 2018 and now Senior Fellow of the Institute. She created the Asian Democracy Research Network in 2015 and has been working with the Network’s twenty-three research organizations across Asia to promote democracy studies, Dr. Lee was Research Fellow at the Sejong Institute, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Professorial Lecturer at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. So Seok Lee has been working at the Institute for National Security Strategy  from 1998 to the present. Dr. Lee has a Doctoral degree(1997) in political science from Korea University and handles various issues especially focused on inter-Korean relations, North Korean politics, and North Korean nuclear issues. He served as a member of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee and the Ministry of Unification's Policy advisory Committee and served as a member of the Gyeonggi-do Inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation Committee. He served as the president of the Korean Association of Peace Studies.

Dr. Yoon Been Lee is an expert in R&D and policy planning, with extensive experience in
evaluating and designing large-scale national projects. Currently serving as Program
Director at the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP), Dr.
Lee leads the planning of energy efficiency innovation programs, including industrial heat
pumps, data centers, and vertical farming systems. Previously, Dr. Lee held key leadership
roles at the Korea Institute of Science & Technology Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP),
where he conducted feasibility studies, coordinated national R&D budgets, and developed
investment strategies. Dr. Lee also served as the National Contact Point at KIC-Europe in
Brussels, fostering international collaborations. He began his professional career as a Senior
Research Engineer at LG Electronics, developing advanced commercial VRF heat pump
systems.
Dr. Lee holds a Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, along with an M.S. in
Public Policy, all from Seoul National University.

Professor Youho Lee specializes in nuclear fuel materials, fuel performance modeling, nuclear reactor safety and design, and nuclear fuel cycle policy. Professor Lee earned his B.S. from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2009, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011 and 2013, respectively. He currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU). Prior to joining SNU, he worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico in the U.S.

Dr. Elena V. McLean is a Professor of Political Science at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Her research focuses on issues related to international institutions and international political economy, such as economic sanctions and foreign aid.

Jared Mondschein is the Director of Research at the United States Studies Centre. Previously, Jared was a Research Analyst at Bloomberg BNA in Washington, DC, where he focused on cross-border tax issues. Prior to joining Bloomberg BNA, Jared was a Research Associate in the Asia Studies program of the Council on Foreign Relations, an editorial assistant at Foreign Policy magazine, and an assistant editor at a policy journal in Beijing.

Dr. Moon Joohyun is a full professor of the Department of Energy Engineering at Dankook University (Cheonan). Before joining the University, Dr. Moon was a full professor of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Dongguk University (Gyeongju). He was a public officer of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Korea and a senior researcher of the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety, the Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning, and the Korea Electric Power Research Institute. Dr. Moon holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Seoul National University of the Republic of Korea. He is co-translator of Introduction to Nuclear Engineering (in Korean) (Seoul: Hantee Media, 2020). He has also published articles in several academic journals, including “Applying a big data analysis to evaluate the suitability of shelter locations for the evacuation of residents in case of radiological emergencies”, Nuclear Engineering and Technology Vol. 55, No.1 (2023, January).

Dr. Sandip Kumar Mishra is Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,
India. He is also Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Delhi and
Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), New Delhi. He
is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Sejong Institute and a Collaborative Fellow at the Ajou
Unification Research Institute, Ajou National University. He writes a monthly column
named East Asia Compass at the IPCS website and another column to the Korea Times
newspaper.
He completed his Master degree in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru
University and obtained his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from the same university. He
studied Korean Language in Korea in 2006 and 2010 at the Yonsei University and
Sogang University. He has been Visiting Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Korea National
Defense University, Northeast Asia History Foundation, Kim Dae-jung Presidential
Library and Museum, Institute for Far East Studies, Kyungnam University, Sejong
Institute, and Korean Institute for International Economic Policy.

Sang-Yoon Ma is a Professor of International Relations at the Catholic University of Korea. Formerly, he was Director-General for Strategy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea from September 2016 to August 2019. He also was visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, the Wilson Center in Washington DC, and the ISDP in Stockholm. Fulfilling military service responsibilities, he worked as a ROK Air Force intelligence officer from 1989 to 1992. Professor Ma studied International Relations for his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Seoul National University. Then, as a Swire Scholar, he continued his study of International Relations at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, where he received a DPhil degree. His doctoral thesis analyzed U.S. policy toward Korea during the 1960s, focusing on the question of democracy in the country. His main areas of teaching and research include East Asian international politics, U.S. foreign policy, Korea-U.S. relations, and Cold War history.

Jinwook Nam is an associate research fellow at the Korea Development Institute (KDI). Email: jnam@kdi.re.kr. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the KDI.

Dr. Rajiv Nayan is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. He has been working with the Institute since 1993, where he specializes in international relations, and security issues, especially the politics of nuclear disarmament, export control, non-proliferation, and arms control. Rajiv was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs, Tokyo, where he published his monograph- Non-Proliferation Issues in South Asia. He was also a Senior Researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo, a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London and a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University. He holds a Ph.D. a Master of Philosophy in Disarmament Studies and a Master of Arts in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. In his doctoral dissertation, he studied implications of the Missile Technology Control Regime for Indian security and economy.

Rajiv Nayan has published books, as well as papers in academic journals, and as chapters of books. His single-authored book-- the Global Strategic Trade Management-- has been published by Springer. His edited book-Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and India, was published by Routledge in May 2011 and coedited Pakistan’s Security Dynamics and Nuclear Weapons in 2022. He has contributed articles to numerous newspapers, including the International Herald Tribune, the Asahi Shimbun, the Hindustan Times and the Times of India. His articles have also appeared in the world’s leading journals such as the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and Strategic Analysis. His articles have appeared in the famous Jane’s Intelligence Review as well.

At present, Rajiv is the Secretary-General of the Indian Association of International Studies. He is a member of the Executive Council of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata. He is an Indian partner of the International Nuclear Security Forum which is a Washington-based group of Non-Governmental Organisations active in nuclear security. Rajiv is also on the Advisory Council of the Delhi School of Transnational Affairs, Delhi University. Rajiv is a founding member of the Defence Innovators and Industry Association. He also serves on different expert committees of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research. He is on the Board of Studies of several universities' Defence and Security Studies.

Rajiv was a member of the governing council of the International Export Controls Association, hosted by the University of Georgia in Washington, DC, a member of the Academic Council of Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a member of the Export Controls Experts Group and Multilateral Security Governance in Northeast Asia/North Pacific of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific (CSCAP). He was on the Committee of the Ministry of Defence on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. Rajiv served on the governing bodies of three colleges of Delhi University—Aryabhatt College, Maitreyi College and Satyawati College. He was a Member of the Regional Network of Strategic Studies Centers Weapons of Mass Destruction/Border Security Working Group. He was an interim convener and also on the Executive Council of the Indian Pugwash Society. Rajiv was also on the Board of Studies of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Sachio Nakato is a Professor at College of International Relations, Director of Center for East Asian Peace and Cooperation Studies, and Vice President International, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. His research interests include Northeast Asian security and international relations, North Korea’s foreign policy, and Japan’s policy toward the Korean Peninsula. He received his Ph.D in International Relations, Ritsumeikan University.

Dr Tereza NOVOTNÁ is a Korea-Europe Center Fellow at Free University (FU) Berlin and Korea Associate at 9DashLine. She previously held a Korea Foundation and Marie Sklodowska-Curie research projects on the EU and South Korea approaches to the Covid19 pandemic (“KOR-ON-EU”) and on the EU’s foreign policy towards North Korea (“EUSKOR”) at the Center for European Integration at FU Berlin. She is also a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the EUROPEUM, a Prague-based think-tank, which is focused on EU policies. In 2017-2018, Tereza was a Korea Foundation Visiting Professor at Seoul National University and Fudan Fellow at Fudan University in Shanghai. She collaborates with the Institute for European Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles where she held two postdocs from 2012 to 2017. Tereza received her doctorate from Boston University in 2012 and other degrees from Charles University Prague. She is the author of the monograph How Germany Unified and the EU Enlarged: Negotiating the Accession through Transplantation and Adaptation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and has widely published on EU foreign policy in, among others, Journal of Common Market Studies, Studia Diplomatica, and on the EU-North East Asia relations in 38th North, The Diplomat, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 9DashLine, Asia Trends and others. Tereza has been a frequent commentator for media outlets such as Indus News, Czech TV and NK News. You can visit her website at https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/euskor and to follow her on Twitter at @TerezaANovotna.

Ana Palacio was the first woman to serve as Foreign Minister of Spain, from 2002-2004. Before this, she was a member of the Spanish Parliament, where she chaired the Joint Committee of the two Houses for European Affairs. She also served as a member of the European Parliament, where she chaired the Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee, the Justice and Home Affairs Committee and the Conference of the Committee Chairs, the most senior decision-making body on legislative policy and programs. As the Head of the Spanish Delegation to the European Union’s Intergovernmental Conference and a member of the Presidium of the Convention, Ms. Palacio was at the forefront of the debate on the future of the European Union and drafted and led legal discussions on the European Treaties reform. Ms. Palacio also served on Spain’s Consejo de Estado (Council of State), and as Senior VP and General Counsel of the World Bank Group, as well as Secretary General of the ICSID –International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

In the private sector, Ms. Palacio was a member of the Executive Committee and Senior VP for International Affairs of the nuclear energy leader AREVA. She currently sits on the corporate boards of Enagás, Ecoener, and Emissions Reduction Corp and is a member of the International Advisory Board of OCP Group. Ms. Palacio is a visiting professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and at the UM6P University, and she is a member of the governing bodies of several public and academic institutions. She is a regular speaker at international conferences and a contributor to different publications, including a monthly column for Project Syndicate, and a weekly column for El Mundo (Spain).

Cuz Potter (Columbia University, MSUP, MIA, PhD) is professor of international development and cooperation at Korea University's College of International Studies. His teaching and research examines the relationship between urbanization, economic transformation, and social change. His current research problematizes the relationship between automation and development through the lens of social justice. Past research has examined logistics, Nairobi's slums, US urban revitalization, urban entrepreneurialism, industrial districts, urban exports, and large-scale residential projects, displacement, and gentrification in Southeast Asia. He is a co-editor of and contributor to Searching for the Just City, an interrogation of Susan Fainstein's concept of the Just City.

Jimin Kim is a master student at Korea University. Her research topics include international development cooperation, urban development, and regional governance.

David Palmer is Associate in History at The University of Melbourne. He is the author of Organizing the Shipyards: Union Strategy in Three Northeast Shipyards (Cornell UP); “Foreign Forced Labor at Mitsubishi’s Nagasaki and Hiroshima Shipyards: Big Business, Militarized Government, and the Absence of Shipbuilding Workers’ Rights in World War II Japan,” in van der Linden and Rodríguez García, eds, On Coerced Labor: Work and Compulsion after Chattel Slavery (Brill); articles in The Asia Pacific Journal / Japan Focus, including “Japan’s World Heritage Miike Coal Mine – Where prisoners-of-war worked ‘like slaves’” (July 2021); and other publications on the labor and business history of the U.S. and Japan. He previously taught at Flinders University, Adelaide. Before moving permanently to Australia, he taught at Harvard University (Social Studies) and published case studies as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School. His Ph.D. is from Brandeis University. He can be reached at: palmer.d@unimelb.edu.au 

Hongjoon Park is a Professor of Engineering in the Smart City Convergence College at Dongguk University WISE Camnpus.

Dr. PARK Hyondo is currently Research Professor at The Sogang Euro-MENA Institute, Sogang University in Seoul, Korea. He serves as director of the Middle East Forum for Industrial Cooperation, member for Korea-Iran Forum Executive Committee at KIEP, lecturer at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and chair of Publication Committee at the Korean Conference of Religions for Peace (KCRP), and editor-in-chief of Religion & Peace, a journal in English published by the International Peace Corps of Religions (IPCR). He also worked as policy advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for six years (2012-2018), and currently works as advisor on the Middle East to the Ministry of Justice.

He has written extensively on Islam and the Middle East, including a chapter titled “From a Persian Barbarian to a Superior Sage to Chinese Sages: the Image of the Prophet in Ma Zhu’s Shengzan,” in Massoud ed., Studies in Islamic Historiography Essays in Honour of Professor Donald P. Little (Leiden: Brill, 2019).

He received his B.A. in Religious Studies from Sogang University (Seoul, Korea), and his M.A. in Islamic Studies from the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). He completed his doctoral program (Islamic Studies) at McGill and received his Ph.D. (Islamic Studies) from the University of Tehran in Iran.

PARK Ihn-hwi is a professor of the Division of International Studies at Ewha Womans University in Korea. Prof. Park is the President of the Korea Association of International Studies which is the largest academic society in the area of international relations, security studies, foreign policy, and regional studies in Korea. He also serves as a member of the Korea Social Science Research Council. He has been a member of the Advisory Committee of the Office of National Security between 2017 and 2019, and a member of the Preparatory Committee for Unification in which the Chairperson of the committee was the president of Korea between 2014 and 2017. He is actively engaged in many NGOs and Think-tanks such as the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation, the Korea Peace Foundation, The Ahnmin Institute for Public Policy, etc. He received his Ph. D. in the area of international politics from Northwestern University in 1999. Prof. Park can be reached at ihpark@ewha.ac.kr.

PARK Ihn-hwi is a professor of the Division of International Studies at Ewha Womans University in Korea. Prof. Park’s area of expertise includes international security, U.S. foreign policy, Northeast Asian international relations, and inter-Korean relations. He has been a member of the Advisory Committee of the Office of National Security between 2017 and 2019, and a member of the Preparatory Committee for Unification in which the Chairperson of the committee was the president of Korea between 2014 and 2017. Prof. Park is currently vice president of the Korea Northeast Asia Association and holds the same position in the Korea Area Studies Association, the Korean Association of North Korean Studies, and the Korean Association of Peace Studies. He is also actively engaged in many NGOs and Think-tanks such as the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation, the Korea Peace Foundation, The Ahnmin Institute for Public Policy, etc. He was a visiting scholar at the Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington in 2010. Prof. Park has written many book chapters and articles including The Koreas between China and Japan(Cambridge, 2014), International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, Korea Journal of Defense Analysis, the Korean Journal of International Studies, Global Economic Review, and etc. He received his Ph. D. in the area of international politics from Northwestern University in 1999. Prof. Park can be reached at ihpark@ewha.ac.kr

Professor Jaemin Park is in the Department of Technology Management at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea. He currently serves as a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (Division of Technology Management and Policy), Chair of the Disclosure Committee for the KOSDAQ Market, and a non-executive director at both the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity (KOFAC) and the Korea Foundation for Industrial Technology Culture. He also chairs the Deliberation Committee for Innovation Financing of National Strategic Industries and the Selection Committee for the Top 100 R&D Excellence Achievements in Korea.
Previously, Professor Park served as Policy Advisor to the Minister of Science and Technology and held multiple leadership positions at Konkuk University, including Dean of Planning, Dean of Academic Affairs, and Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation.

Dr. Jagannath Panda is the Head of the Stockholm Centre for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), Sweden. He is also the Director for Europe-Asia Research Cooperation at the YCAPS in Japan. Additionally, Dr. Panda is a Senior Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS), The Netherlands.

He is also the Series Editor for Routledge Studies on Think Asia. Dr. Panda is the author of the book India-China Relations (Routledge: 2017) and China’s Path to Power: Party, Military and the Politics of State Transition (Pentagon Press: 2010). Dr. Panda’s recent edited works are: Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping (co-edited), Quad Plus and Indo-Pacific (Routledge: 2021); Scaling India-Japan Cooperation in Indo-Pacific and Beyond 2025 (KW Publishing Ltd. 2019), and The Korean Peninsula and Indo-Pacific Power Politics: Status Security at Stake (Routledge, 2020); and co-editor of The Future of Korean Peninsula: Korea 2032 and Beyond (Routledge, 2021).

James E. Platte is Assistant Professor at the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) at Fort Leavenworth. His research focuses on strategic deterrence, cybersecurity, energy security, and strategy in the Indo-Pacific. He has held research fellowships with the National Bureau of Asian Research, East-West Center, Pacific Forum, Council on Foreign Relations, and the Harvard Kennedy School. He received his PhD in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Dr. James J. Przystup is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. He has worked on Asia-related issues for over thirty years: on the staff of the House of Representatives Subcommittees on Asian and Pacific Affairs; on the Policy Planning Staff at the United States Department of State; in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; and at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the United States National Defense University. He holds a BA Summa cum Laude from the University of Detroit, an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and a PhD. In U.S. Diplomatic History and East Asian Studies also from the University of Chicago.

Jiyoung Park is the Director of the Technology Policy Center at the Research Institute for Economy and Society. Her main research area is science, technology, and security policy. Her current interests include policy and management issues related to nuclear technology, security challenges posed by emerging technologies, and evidence-based science and technology policies. Park holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering and radiological sciences.

Dr. Jong-Chul Park is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification. He received his Ph. D. in Political Science from Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 1997-1998, a visiting scholar at Tokyo University in 2007, and a visiting research fellow at Japan Institute for International Affairs in 2007. His recent publications include: The U.S.-China Relations in the New Normal Era and South Korea's North Korea Policy (2019), Prospect for Peace regime Building on the Korea Peninsula (2018), Integration After Korean Unification (2017), Prospect for Change of Kim Jung-Un Regime and South Korea's Policy Directions (2013), Easing International Concerns over A Unified Korea and Regional Benefits of Korean Unification (2012), An Evaluation of South Korea's Policy toward North Korea in 2000s and Policy Alternative (2012), and Peace on the Korean Peninsula and North Korea's Denuclearization: An Application of Cooperative Threat Reduction to Korean Peninsula (2011), et al.

Dr. Joohui Park is a researcher working at the National Security Research Institute. She has been actively working on developing cybersecurity policies and strategies for the Republic of Korea, especially from her area of expertise, international law. Before this, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute. She received a Ph.D. in international law at Korea University.

One of her papers is "Developing a Collective Retorsion Framework Against Malicious Cyber Operations: Opportunities and Steps for EU-South Korea Cybersecurity Cooperation" (in Boulet, G., Reiterer, M., Pardo, R.P. (eds) Cybersecurity Policy in the EU and South Korea from Consultation to Action. New Security Challenges, Palgrave Macmillan).

Joshua H. Pollack is the Editor of the Nonproliferation Review and a Senior Research Associate, and is recognized as a leading expert on nuclear and missile proliferation, focusing on Northeast Asia.

Before joining MIIS in April 2016, Pollack served as a consultant to the US government, specializing in issues related to weapons of mass destruction, including proliferation, arms control, and deterrence. As a defense policy analyst at DFI International, Science Applications International Corporation, and Constellation West, his clients included the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Nuclear Security Administration, and the Plans and Policy Directorate (J5) of US Strategic Command. In 2015, he was named an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute.

Pollack is a frequent commentator in major media outlets, including CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, Reuters, Vox, Asia Times, Voice of America,  NPR, and others. He received his MA of Public Management with specialization in international security and economic policy, University of Maryland College Park, and his AB with Departmental Honors in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Vassar College

Dr Kaewkamol (Karen) Pitakdumrongkit is Senior Fellow and Head of the Centre for Multilateralism Studies, at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), USA.

Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit is Head of Centre for Multilateralism Studies, at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include international economic negotiation, Southeast Asian and East Asian economic governance (focusing on trade, money and finance), regional-global economic governance dynamics, the ASEAN Economic Community, and cooperation between ASEAN and dialogue partners (ASEAN-Plus frameworks).

Manpreet Sethi, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi, and Senior Research Advisor, Asia Pacific Leadership Network. Is an expert on nuclear energy, strategy, arms control, nuclear risk reduction & disarmament. She is author/co-author/editor of nine books and over 130 papers. She is member of the Science and Security Board, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists; Co-chair, Working Group on Reducing Pathways to Nuclear Use at Belfer Center, Harvard University; and Board Member, Missile Dialogue Initiative, IISS. Recipient of K Subrahmanyam award (2014), Commendation by Chief of Air Staff (2020) and Commendation by Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Forces Command (2022). She is member of International Group of Eminent Persons selected by Japan PM to explore possibilities of nuclear elimination.

Marianne is the associated Research Fellow at the French Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS). She was a research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Research at Military School (IRSEM) from 2015 to 2022. Her research interests include Indo Pacific geopolitical issues with a specific expertise on security and defense policies in Northeast Asia (Japan-Korean Peninsula), global maritime security topics as emerging naval forces and key maritime theatres.

She was a visiting Research Fellow at the Japan Institute for International Affairs and the National Institute for Defense studies (Tokyo). She also teaches classes in Maritime Security at Sciences-Po Paris and the Lille Catholic University. She is the Advisor for the EU maritime project CRIMARIO from 2015.

Marianne Peron-Doise has held various senior positions on security issues in Asia-Pacific within the French Ministry of Defence, notably the Head of the Asia-Pacific Department, Delegation for Strategic Affairs from 2007 to 2011. She was a Political Adviser at the Allied Maritime Command in Northwood, UK, from 2012-2015.

Oskar Pietrewicz is Senior Analyst of the Asia-Pacific Programme at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM). He holds a PhD in social sciences in the field of political science from the University of Warsaw. His research focuses on security issues in Northeast Asia, North and South Korea’s foreign and security policy, U.S. and China’s policy toward the Korean Peninsula. He has participated in track 1.5 and 2 dialogues with North and South Korea. He also advises the Polish public institutions on Korea-related issues.

Peter A. Petri is the Carl J. Shapiro Professor of International Finance in the Brandeis International Business School. From 1994 to 2006 he served as the founding Dean and from 2016 to 2018 as the Interim Dean of the School. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and its John L. Thornton China Center (Washington), and a Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (Washington). Petri has held appointments as Visiting Scholar or Professor at the OECD (Paris), Keio University (Tokyo), Fudan University (Shanghai) and Peking University (Beijing), and as a Fulbright Research Scholar and Brookings Policy Fellow. He has consulted for APEC, the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank Institute, the World Bank, the OECD, the United Nations and the governments of the United States and other countries. He is or has been a member of the editorial boards of the ASEAN Economic Bulletin, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of East Asian Economic Integration and the Singapore Economic Review. He is active in US-Asia affairs and is a member of the Board of the U.S. Asia Pacific Council and a former Chair of the U.S. APEC Study Centers Consortium. Petri's research focuses on international trade, finance, investment and technological competition with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. His work has been supported by the U.S. Departments of State, Education, and Health and Human Services, and by the World Bank, the United Nations and major foundations.

Dr. Prashanth Parameswaran is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is also Deputy Head of Research at the BowerGroupAsia consultancy and a Senior Columnist at The Diplomat magazine, one of Asia’s leading publications.

Ramon Pacheco Pardo is Professor of International Relations at King's College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is also King's Regional Envoy for East and South East Asia, helping to shape and implement the university's strategy for the region. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Prof Pacheco Pardo is also Committee Member at CSCAP EU. He has held visiting positions at Korea University, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Melbourne University. Prof Pacheco Pardo has been editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies and currently sits in the editorial boards of East Asia: An International Quarterly, EU-China Observer and Global Studies Journal. His publications include the book North Korea-US Relations from Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un, published in 2019. He has participated in track 1.5 and 2 dialogues with South Korea, North Korea, China and Japan. Prof Pacheco Pardo has testified before the European Parliament and advised the OECD, the European External Action Service, the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the United Kingdom’s Cabinet and Foreign & Commonwealth offices. He is a frequent media commentator on North East Asian affairs and EU-East Asia relations.

Dr. Sanggil Park is an advisor at Lee & Ko, one of the largest law firms in South Korea. As an expert in the nuclear field, Dr. Park has advised government, state-owned and/or private enterprises for their overseas nuclear projects, export control, nonproliferation issues, etc. Dr. Park’s academic background includes a BSc degree in nuclear engineering from Seoul National University and a joint MSc degree in nuclear engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPF Lausanne), as well as a PhD degree at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, in collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Prior to joining to Lee & Ko, Dr. Park has worked as a researcher in the nuclear safety field at Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Paul Scherrer Institute. In addition, Dr. Park worked at Samsung Global Research as a research fellow.

Seung Joon Paik is a research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification. His research interests include international security, nuclear deterrence and arms control, political violence, and inter-Korean relations. Seung Joon received his Ph.D. in Political Science from The George Washington University.

Sunwoo Paek is a Research Fellow at Institute for National Security Strategy. Dr. Paek holds her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Political Science from Korea University. Her research interests include nuclear proliferation and alliance politics.
Her work is published in scholarly journals, including The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Korean Journal of International Studies, Journal of International and Area Studies, The Journal of Asiatic Studies, and Korean Journal of International Relations.

Wooyeal PAIK is associate professor at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, deputy director, Yonsei Institute of North Korean Studies, and Director, Center for International Relas-tins, Aerospace Strategy & Technology Institute at Yonsei University, Seoul. He is also a visiting fellow at Institut de recherche stratégique de l’École militaire (IRSEM), Paris and adjunct professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels. Prof. PAIK received a B.A. in political science from Yonsei University, a M.Phil. in public and social administration from City University of Hong Kong, and a M.A. and a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA. His recent research focuses on the interactions between domestic poli-tics and international politics from global strategic perspectives as well as convergence of Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic regions as well as key security dimensions (military, political, economic, technologi-cal, and environmental). More specific topics are NATO-AP4 relation and Korea-Europe defense in-dustrial cooperation, China-Europe relations, and French foreign policy. He also tries to create a new field, politics of things to include forest and technology, while advising and/or working with multiple government branches such as Korean MOFA, National Assembly, Navy, Air Force, NSO, and Forest Service.

Dandy Rafitrandi is a researcher at the Department of Economics, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Indonesia. He is also a project director at the Decarbonization for Development Lab (DfD Lab) and responsible as an editor-in-chief at CSIS Indonesia. Additionally, he served as an adjunct Faculty Member at Universitas Prasetiya Mulya.

Daniel Russel is Vice President for International Security and Diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI). Previously he served as a Diplomat in Residence and Senior Fellow with ASPI for a one year term. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service at the U.S. Department of State, he most recently served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Prior to his appointment as Assistant Secretary on July 12, 2013, Mr. Russel served at the White House as Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Asian Affairs. During his tenure there, he helped formulate President Obama’s strategic rebalance to the Asia Pacific region, including efforts to strengthen alliances, deepen U.S. engagement with multilateral organizations, and expand cooperation with emerging powers in the region.

Prior to joining the NSC in January of 2009, he served as Director of the Office of Japanese Affairs and had assignments as U.S. Consul General in Osaka-Kobe, Japan (2005-2008); Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands (2002-2005); Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus (1999-2002); Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering (1997-99); Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1995-96); Political Section Unit Chief at U.S. Embassy Seoul, Republic of Korea (1992-95); Political Advisor to the Permanent Representative to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Ambassador Pickering (1989-92); Vice Consul in Osaka and Branch Office Manager in Nagoya, Japan (1987-89); and Assistant to the Ambassador to Japan, former Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (1985-87).

In 1996, Mr. Russel was awarded the State Department's Una Chapman Cox Fellowship sabbatical and authored America’s Place in the World, a book published by Georgetown University. Before joining the Foreign Service, he was manager for an international firm in New York City.

Mr. Russel was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and University College, University of London, UK.

Denny Roy has been a Senior Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu since 2007. He frequently writes on Asia-Pacific security and strategic issues.

A retired senior U.S. diplomat, Evans Revere served with distinction as one of the U.S. State Department’s leading Asia experts. During his career, he served as the Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
Currently, he is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings’ Center for Asia Policy Studies. He is also senior advisor with the Albright Stonebridge Group and a member of the Board of Advisers of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR).
He has extensive experience negotiating with North Korea and served as the U.S. government’s primary day-to-day liaison with North Korea.
He is fluent in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish, and is a graduate of Princeton University, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Grant Rumley is the Meisel-Goldberger Senior Fellow and director of the Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where Claudia Groeling is a research assistant.

Dr Kristi Raik is the Deputy Director and Head of the Foreign Policy Programme of the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) as of 1 January 2023. She is also an Adjunct Professor of International Relations at the University of Turku. From 2018 to 2022, she was the Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at the ICDS, and prior to that served as a Senior Research Fellow and Acting Programme Director at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki and an official at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union in Brussels. Kristi has published, lectured and commented widely on European security and EU foreign policy, including the EU’s relations with Russia, Ukraine and other Eastern neighbours. Kristi is also an expert of the foreign and security policies of the Baltic states and Finland. She has provided expert contributions to the Estonian, Finnish, EU and NATO institutions. Kristi has a PhD from the University of Turku.

Laura Rockwood is director of Open Nuclear Network (ONN), a program of One Earth Future. Laura retired from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in November 2013 as the Section Head for Non-Proliferation and Policy in the Office of Legal Affairs after 28 years of service. She has published extensively on safeguards and non-proliferation. In July 2012, she was honored with the Distinguished Service Award by the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) for long-term noteworthy accomplishments in, and service to, the nuclear materials management profession. Laura received her BA degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Juris Doctor from the University of California's Hastings College of Law in San Francisco.

Mason Richey is professor of international politics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea), senior contributor at Asia Society Korea, president of the Korea International Studies Association (KISA), and Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of East Asian Affairs. Dr. Richey has also held positions as a POSCO Visiting Research Fellow at the East-West Center (Honolulu, HI) and a DAAD Scholar at the University of Potsdam. His research focuses on European foreign and security policy, as well as US foreign policy in the Indo-Asia-Pacific. Recent scholarly articles have appeared (inter alia) in Asian Survey, Political Science, Journal of International Peacekeeping, Pacific Review, Asian Security, Global Governance, and Foreign Policy Analysis. Shorter analyses and opinion pieces have been published in War on the Rocks, Le Monde, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, and Forbes, among other venues. Dr. Richey is also co-editor of the volume The Future of the Korean Peninsula: 2032 and Beyond (Routledge, 2021), and co-author of the US-Korea chapter for the tri-annual journal Comparative Connections (published by Pacific Forum). He is also a frequent participant in a variety of Track 1.5 meetings on Indo-Asia-Pacific security and foreign policy issues. 

Dr. Michael Reiterer (michael.reiterer@vub.be ) Professor for International Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, Brussels School of Governance; Adjunct Professor for International Politics, University of Innsbruck (habilitation 2005, PhD equivalent), Webster University/Vienna, LUISS/Rome, Danube University/Krems; Guest professorships at Ritsumeikan University/Kyoto, Kobe and Keio University/Tokyo. Associate Fellow – Global Fellowship Initiative, Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), Senior Advisor at Centre for Asia Pacific Strategy (CAPS), Washington DC, Austria Institute for Europa and Security Policy (AIES) Vienna, and Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW).

Ambassador of the European Union to the Republic of Korea (2017-2020), Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein (2007-2011) rtd. Previously Minister, Deputy Head of EU-Delegation to Japan (2002-2006); ASEM Counsellor (1998-2002); Minister-Counsellor, Austrian Mission to the European Union (1997-98); Counsellor, Austrian Mission to the GATT (1990-92); Austrian Deputy Trade Commissioner to Japan (1985-88) and Western Africa (1982-85). Panellist at WTO dispute settlement; Co-chair Trade of Joint Group of Trade and Environment Experts, OECD. Honorary citizen of Seoul (2020); Order of Merit in Silver with Star, Government of the Republic of Austria (2018).

Yongwook Ryu is an Assistant Professor at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He specializes in International Relations, with a focus on East Asia. His research interests include foreign policies of China, Japan, Korea and ASEAN as well as broad regional and global issues. His current research examines the effect of national identity on foreign policy, the tech competition in US-China rivalry, and new conceptualization of hedging among others. Yongwook received his Ph.D. from the Department of Government, Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow, and has taught at the Australian National University prior to joining NUS. He speaks Korean, Japanese, and Chinese (Mandarin).

Boram Shin is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Studies, Jeonbuk National University. Her research interest include Central Asian/Eurasian culture and history.

Dr. BYUNGHWAN Son is Associate Professor of Global Affairs at George Mason University. At GMU, he is also an associate director of the Korean Studies Center and director of Asia-Pacific Studies. His primary research interest lies in the intersection of global finance and political behavior/institutions. His research appeared in such journals as the Journal of Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Development Studies, and Journal of Cultural Economics.

Ethan Hee-Seok Shin is a legal analyst at Seoul-based human rights documentation NGO Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG). He has been interviewing North Korean escapees who make their way to South Korea through China to record enforced disappearances and other grave human rights violations, made submissions to the UN human rights experts on their behalf and set up FOOTPRINTS, an online database of the people taken by North Korea. He is an advocate for ending China's policy of indiscriminate refoulement for the North Korean refugees without individualized determination and has helped raised the issue recently at the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). He holds a Ph.D. in international law from Yonsei University in South Korea and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

Dr. Samore served in the U.S. government for over 20 years, focusing on nuclear arms control and preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, especially in the Middle East and Asia. In that capacity, he served both President Clinton and President Obama as the senior official in the National Security Council responsible for nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Outside government, he held senior research and administrative positions at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Belfer Center for Science and International Security at Harvard University. He holds an MA and Ph.D from the Government Department of Harvard University.

Professor Han is currently assistant professor of Chinese studies at Yonsei University's GSIS. He received his political science degrees from Yonsei University and continued his graduate studies at the prominent Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His practical experience in Chinese studies was earned as a lecturer at Peking University’s School of Government and at the Chinese Academy of Social Science in Beijing. Professor Han’s area of specialization is in Chinese security and foreign policy and business practices in China.

Hanbyeol Sohn is currently an associate professor in the Department of Military Strategy at the Korea National Defense University(KNDU) and Director for Center for Military Strategy in Research Institute for National Security Affairs(RINSA). He was graduated from Seoul National University with BA and MA, and has received a doctorate in military studies from KNDU. From 2002, he held both ROK Army commander and staff positions in the field and served as an acting officer in Strategic Planning Division(J5), ROK Joint Chief of Staff. He also conducted research for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute(SIPRI) and Korea Research Institute for National Security(KRINS). His research areas include the ROK-US Alliance, nuclear strategy, and strategy planning.

Hanna Song is the Director of International Cooperation and a researcher at the Seoul-based North Korean human rights NGO, the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB). NKDB, officially established in 2003, has recorded over 130,000 entries related to human rights violations in its database, carries out advocacy based on the data and also provides resettlement support to North Korean escapees. As Director, Ms. Song has briefed diplomats, policymakers and foreign correspondents on the human rights situation in North Korea. She has created partnerships with international stakeholders with research institutions, universities and NGOs overseas. As a researcher, she has documented human rights violations in NKDB's Unified Human Rights Database- the largest repository on North Korean human rights violations. She has published reports on the human rights situation in North Korea's military, humanitarian assistance sent to North Korea, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Universal Periodic Review. She holds a Masters in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford and has appeared in The Economist, Financial Times and BBC among other international news outlets.

Sung Il-kwang is a prominent South Korean scholar specializing in Middle Eastern studies and currently serves as a research professor at the Institute of Euro-MENA Studies at Sogang University. He holds a Master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from Tel Aviv University. His extensive experience includes serving as a Jerusalem correspondent for Yonhap News, leading the Political Economy Research Office at Korea University's Middle East and Islamic Center, and advising the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a policy advisor for the Africa and Middle East Bureau. Dr. Sung is a recognized expert and frequent commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, often featured in broadcast media and online content where he provides analysis on regional developments.

Jinsok Sung is an energy market researcher with a focus on the Asia Pacific and Eurasian energy markets. He is a Research Professor and lecturer at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea. He was also a Research Fellow at Hallym University of Graduate Studies, also in South Korea. Prior to his career at the universities, he was a Visiting Researcher at BOFIT, Institute for Emerging Economies at Bank of Finland. He has been conducting various research projects on global energy markets with research centers around the world and has over 10-year experience of research on global energy market issues. He holds a Ph.D. in international economics and a M.Sc. from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas. He received a B.A. in economics from Hanyang University in South Korea.

Jonathan Stern founded the OIES Gas Research Programme in 2003 and was its Director until October 2011 when he became its Chairman and a Senior Research Fellow, he became a Distinguished Fellow in October 2016. He is honorary professor at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum & Mineral Law & Policy, University of Dundee; fellow of the Energy Delta Institute and a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan. His most recent papers published by OIES in 2020 and 2022 are: Measurement, Reporting, and Verification of Methane Emissions from Natural Gas and LNG Trade: creating transparent and credible frameworks; and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from LNG Trade: from carbon neutral to GHG-verified.

Jungkun Seo is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. Prior to joining Kyung Hee University, he was an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the Department of Public and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington (2007– 2012). Dr. Seo is a Fulbright Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. (2019) and served as the President of the Korean Association of American Politics (2020). Professor Seo’s research interests include American politics of foreign policymaking and US policy toward East Asia. Dr. Seo published the books titled When American Politics Meeting International Relations (in Korean) and American Politics and US Asia Policy (in Korean), both selected as one of the year’s best books by the National Academy of Sciences in Korea. Jungkun Seo received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in Political Science from Seoul National University.

Dr. Kyungho Song is a political theorist and conceptual historian currently serving as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Division of Solution-Seeking for Political Problems in the Age of Innovative Science and Technology at Yonsei University. He is also a Senior Researcher in the Climate Adaptation Living Lab R&D and the Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies. As a founding member of “AI Five,” a collective of humanities scholars addressing the challenges of the AI Big Bang era, his recent research and writing focus on human rights, democracy, the climate crisis, artificial intelligence, and the evolving landscape of political science.

Lee Sang-kyu is a research fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense. His research areas are North Korea nuclear issues, ROK-US extended deterrence cooperation and security strategy. He received his and doctoral degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Utah. He was in charge of North Korean nuclear affairs at the Policy Office of the Ministry of National Defense, and contributed to the MND's policy on extended deterrence cooperation. He led and participated in various research projects ordered by government agencies such as the Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Unification, and Ministry of Science and Technology.

Dr. Manpreet Sethi is Distinguished Fellow at Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi, where she heads its programme on nuclear issues. She is also Senior Research Adviser Asia Pacific Leadership Network.

She received her doctorate in 1997 and has since worked on nuclear issues ranging from nuclear energy to strategy, arms control and disarmament. She is author/co-author/editor of nine books and over 130 academic papers. Her book Nuclear Strategy: India’s March towards Credible Deterrence (2009) is deemed essential reading at many war colleges. She lectures regularly at the National Defence College and other leading establishments of Indian Armed Forces, Police and Foreign Services, and Universities.

Sethi is regular participant in flagship nuclear policy conferences and in Track II initiatives. She has contributed to United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, was Member of Prime Minister’s Informal Group on Disarmament in 2012, and member, Executive Board of the Indian Pugwash Society, Board member, APLN and is Co-chair, Women in Nuclear – India (WiN-India).

Recipient of K Subrahmanyam award (2014) for excellence in strategic and security studies. Commended by the Chief of the Air Staff (2020) and the Commander-in-Chief of Strategic Forces Command (2022) for her dedication and professional ability. She is member of the International Group of Eminent Persons instituted by Prime Minister Kishida of Japan in December 2022.

Dr. Semeniy Oleksiy has been the director of Institute for Global Transformations (IGT) from January 2013 - June 2019 and has resumed position in February 2020.

Graduated from Institute of International relations at Kyiv T.Shevchenko National University (Kyiv, Ukraine) in year 2000 and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler College for Good governance (Berlin, Germany) in year 2012. Wrote his PhD thesis at WWU-Muenster (Germany) in 2001-2004. Afterwards worked in German Bundestag in the framework of International Parliamentary Scholarship (2016).

His professional experience includes positions at the NSDC of Ukraine (Adviser to the Secretary and responsible for foreign-security policy issues), Foreign Policy Department of Presidential Administration of Ukraine (adviser to the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration in charge of Foreign Policy issues), legal department at one of the largest Ukrainian financial-industrial groups and managing positions in few Ukrainian think tanks.

Ryo Sahashi is an Associate Professor of International Politics, University of Tokyo. He is concurrently Visiting Research Fellow at Institute of International Affairs, Seoul National University. He can be reached at sahashi@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Dr. Shim Sangmin is research fellow at the Asan Institute of Policy Studies. Prior to his current position at the Asan Institute he worked as assistant professor of international law at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA) from 2016 to 2021, and as visiting research fellow at the Sejong Institute from 2021 to 2022. He also served as visiting scholar at the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), a private think-tank that conducts research on issues of international environmental law, from 2015 to 2016. Dr.Shim’s legal educational background includes a J.S.D. degree at Stanford University, which was awarded in 2015 with his dissertation entitled, “Structuring Climate Policy in the Korean Electricity Sector: Politics, Institutions and Mitigative Capacity-Building.” He also holds a J.S.M degree at the same university, and is a graduate of Seoul National University (B.A. & M.A. in law).

An expert on international environmental law and policy, Dr. Shim is especially interested in global climate change issues, with a focus on designing economically viable, technologically feasible, and politically acceptable policy tools and strategies with significant emission reduction potentials. His academic interests extend to conventional international legal issues as well, such as peace and security in the United Nations system, law of the sea, nuclear non-proliferation, human rights in North Korea and state responsibility. He also covers a variety of non-traditional security issues, such as climate, environmental, energy and human security.

Scott Snyder is senior fellow for Korea Studies and director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where he had served as an adjunct fellow from 2008 to 2011. Prior to joining CFR, Snyder was a senior associate in the international relations program of The Asia Foundation, where he founded and directed the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy and served as The Asia Foundation's representative in Korea (2000-2004). He was also a senior associate at Pacific Forum CSIS. Snyder has worked as an Asia specialist in the research and studies program of the U.S. Institute of Peace and as acting director of Asia Society's contemporary affairs program. Snyder was a Pantech visiting fellow at Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center during 2005–2006, and received an Abe fellowship, administered by the Social Sciences Research Council, in 1998–99. He has provided advice to NGOs and humanitarian organizations active in North Korea and serves as co-chair of the advisory council of the National Committee on North Korea. He received a B.A. from Rice University, an M.A. from the regional studies East Asia program at Harvard Universit, and was a Thomas G. Watson fellow at Yonsei University in South Korea.

Sojin Shin (PhD, National University of Singapore) is an Associate Professor at the School of International Relations (E-track) at Tokyo International University (TIU) in Japan. She is a political scientist and author of The State, Society, and Foreign Capital in India (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Her teaching and research interests include development, international political economy, and South Asian studies.

Talant Sultanov is the Chair and Founder of the Center for Strategic Initiatives “Taza Koom” and Co-Founder of the Internet Society-Kyrgyz Chapter. He is a member of the UN Secretary General’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group for Internet Governance (UN IGF MAG). Talant’s experience includes the work at the World Bank, in the Kyrgyz Government as the Adviser to the Prime Minister and as the Director of Government Think Tank NISI, in academia as the CFO of the American University in Bishkek and as the Scholarship Coordinator at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco, and in the private sector at Kazkommertsbank in Almaty. Additionally, he served on boards of the Kyrgyz National TV and Radio Corporation, the Business Council of the Kyrgyz Parliament, the Bank of Asia, and Humo Microcredit Foundation in Tajikistan.

Talant holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (2006) and a Bachelor’s degree (Summa Cum Laude) in International Relations from San Francisco State University (1999). He has also received executive education at the Harvard Kennedy School
and NESA (2016).

Tomohiko Satake is an associate professor at the School of International Politics, Economics and Communication (SIPEC) at Aoyama Gakuin University. Previously he was a senior research fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) located in Tokyo. He specializes in international relations, Asia-Pacific security, and Japanese and Australian security policies. Between 2013 and 2014, he worked for the International Policy Division of the Defense Policy Bureau of the Japan Ministry of Defense as a deputy director for international security. He earned B.A. and M.A. from Keio University, and PhD in international relations from the Australian National University. His recent publication includes: “‘Kyori no Sensei’ wo Koete: Reisengo no Nichigo Anzenhosyo Kyoryoku” [Beyond ‘Tyranny of Distance’: Japan-Australia Security Cooperation after the Cold War] (Keiso Publishers, 2022).

Troy Stangarone was previously the Senior Director at the Korea Economic Institute of America and is currently a columnist for The Korea Times and The Hankook Ilbo, as well as a contributing author for The Diplomat. He is co-chair of the Steering Committee for the North Korea Economic Forum at the George Washington Institute for Korean Studies and a member of the Korea-America Student Conference’s National Advisory Committee. During his time at KEI, he was a 2012-2013 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in South Korea, sponsored by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, and a Posco Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center. Mr. Stangarone also previously worked on Capitol Hill for Senator Robert Torricelli on issues relating to foreign affairs and trade. Mr. Stangarone holds an MSc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Memphis.

Yoshihide SOEYA is Professor Emeritus of Keio University, from which he retired in March
2020 after serving as professor of political science at the Faculty of Law for 32 years. He
received Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1987, majoring in world politics.
Previously, Dr. Soeya served the “Korea-Japan Joint Research Project for the New Ear”
(MOFA), the “Council on Security and Defense Capabilities in the New Era” (Prime
Minister’s Office), the “Advisory Group on Ministerial Evaluations” (MOFA), the “Central
Council on Defense Facilities” (Agency/Ministry of Defense), and the "Prime Minister's
Commission on Japan's Goals in the 21 st Century" (Prime Minister’s Office). His areas of
interest are politics and security in East Asia, and Japanese diplomacy and its external
relations. His recent publications in English include "Middle Power Cooperation 2.0 in the
Indo-Pacific Era," in Chien-Wen Kou, et al., eds., The Strategic Options of Middle Powers in
the Asia-Pacific (London: Routledge, 2022), "Japan's Diplomacy toward China under the
Abe Shinzo Administration," in James Brown, et al., eds., The Abe Legacy (MD: Lexington
Books, 2021); and “The Rise of China in Asia: Japan at the Nexus,” in Asle Toje, ed., Will
China’s Rise be Peaceful? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).

Yun Sun is a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program at the Stimson Center. Her expertise is in Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations and China’s relations with neighboring countries and authoritarian regimes.

From 2011 to early 2014, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, jointly appointed by the Foreign Policy Program and the Global Development Program, where she focused on Chinese national security decision-making processes and China-Africa relations. From 2008 to 2011, Yun was the China Analyst for the International Crisis Group based in Beijing, specializing on China’s foreign policy towards conflict countries and the developing world. Prior to ICG, she worked on U.S.-Asia relations in Washington, DC for five years. Yun earned her master’s degree in international policy and practice from George Washington University, as well as an MA in Asia Pacific studies and a BA in international relations from Foreign Affairs College in Beijing.

Chung-Min Tsai is a Professor at the Department of Political Science and Vice Dean of the College of Social Sciences at National Chengchi University and the editor of Taiwanese Political Science Review. He obtained his BA and MA from National Taiwan University and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He served as the secretary-general of Taiwan Political Science Association from 2015 to 2018 and the deputy director of Institute of International Relations at National Chengchi University from 2018 to 2020. He was the executive editor of Taiwanese Political Science Review from 2012 to 2017. His academic interests include comparative politics, political economy, and China studies. He has published articles in The China Quarterly, Asian Survey, Problems of Post-Communism, Issues & Studies, Taiwanese Political Science Review, Chinese Political Science, and edited volumes.

Professor Hideshi TOKUCHI joined the Defense Agency (the predecessor of the Ministry of Defense) of Japan in 1979, and served as the nation’s first-ever Vice-Minister of Defense for International Affairs from 2014 to 2015 after completing several senior assignments including the Director-General of Defense Policy Bureau, of Budget and Equipment Bureau, of Personnel and Education Bureau, and of Operations Bureau.

He has been the President of a Tokyo-based independent think-tank called the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS) since 2021. He teaches international security studies as a visiting professor at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo.

He earned his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Tokyo in 1979, and his Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (M.A.L.D.) degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1986.

Jenny Town is a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of Stimson’s 38 North Program. Her expertise is in North Korea, US-DPRK relations, US-ROK alliance and Northeast Asia regional security. She was named one of Worth Magazine’s “Groundbreakers 2020: 50 Women Changing the World” and one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2019 for her role in co-founding and managing the 38 North website, which provides policy and technical analysis on North Korea.

Ms. Town is also an expert reviewer for Freedom House’s Freedom in the World Index, where she previously worked on the Human Rights in North Korea Project; an Associate Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a Member of the National Committee on North Korea, and an Associate Member of the Council of Korean Americans. She serves on the Editorial Board for Inkstick, an online foreign policy journal for emerging scholars.

Jill L. Tao holds a Ph.D. in Comparative and Development Public Administration from the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at the Florida State University and is currently a Professor in the Department of Public Administration at Incheon National University (INU). Professor Tao previously served as the Dean of the Office of International Affairs at INU, and currently teaches courses on international development cooperation and environmental policy. She has worked with the United Nations University, Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) Unit in Guimaraes, Portugal, to help develop an experimental research project comparing attitudes towards e-government between South Korea and Portugal. Professor Tao is pursuing research on the nexus between the exercise of political power and bureaucratic discretion in democratic and non-democratic contexts.

Mark Tokola is Vice President of the Korea Economic Institute of America in Washington, DC. He retired as a U.S. Senior Foreign Service Officer with the rank of Minister-Counselor in September 2014. His last posting was as Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at US Embassy London. Previously he had served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassies in Seoul, Republic of Korea; Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; and, Reykjavik, Iceland. Among his other postings were two tours at the US Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs at Embassy London, and Economic Counselor at US Embassy The Hague. He also served as Director of the Iraq Transition Assistance Office (ITAO) in Baghdad from 2007-2008. Mr Tokola received the State Department’s Superior Honor Award for his work on implementing the Dayton Peace Accords while serving as Political Counselor in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1997-1999. He holds a BA in International Relations from Pomona College in Claremont, California, and an LL.M. in European Community Law from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Mr. Tokola serves on the Board of Governors of DACOR: An Organization of Foreign Affairs Professionals, and on the Board of Trustees of the Bacon House Foundation.

Dr. Monique Taylor is University Lecturer in World Politics in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Sarah Teo is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Regional Security Architecture Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include multilateral security and defence cooperation in ASEAN and the Asia Pacific, as well as middle powers in the Asia Pacific. She is the author of Middle Powers in Asia Pacific Multilateralism: A Differential Framework (Bristol University Press, 2023).

Seiki Tanaka is an assistant professor at the Department of International Relations and International Organization (IRIO), the University of Groningen, and a research fellow at the Faculty of Law, Kobe University. He studies the microfoundations of social diversity and conflicts and how different groups of people can co-exist within a society in an era of globalization and technological advancement.

Dr. Sue Mi Terry joined CSIS in 2017 as senior fellow for Korea and currently also teaches at the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University and is an analyst and commentator for MSNBC and NBC News programs. Prior to CSIS, she served as a highly valued senior analyst on Korean issues at the CIA from 2001 to 2008 and was the director for Korea, Japan, and Oceanic affairs at the National Security Council from 2008 to 2009. From 2009 to 2010, she was deputy national intelligence officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council, and from 2010 to 2011, served as the national intelligence fellow in the David Rockefeller Studies Program at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Since leaving government, Dr. Terry has been a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute (2011-2015) and a senior adviser for Korea at BowerGroupAsia (2015-2017).  She holds a Ph.D. (2001) and an M.A. (1998) in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a B.A. in political science from New York University (1993).

Ambika Vishwanath is the Founder Director of Kubernein Initiative a geopolitical consultancy in India. She has worked at the intersection of water, climate and security for close to 20 years.

Dr. Marjorie Vanbaelinghem is the director of the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) at the Ministry of Armed Forces of France. She has a PhD and is an alumna of both the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration. She taught at several universities, in France and Great Britain, from 2001 to 2008 before joining the diplomatic corps. She started her career at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2009 in in the strategic affairs directorate, worked in several embassies on the French diplomatic network, such as Tokyo, London and Madrid, and also served as Consul general of France in Bangalore, India before joining IRSEM, initially as deputy director. She has recently carried out research on Japan, South Korea and the Philippines. She speaks fluent English and Spanish and proficient Italian and Japanese.

Dr. Clint Work is fellow and director of Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI). KEI is registered under the FARA as an agent of the KIEP, a public corporation established by the government of the Republic of Korea. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Kim Won-soo is the former Under Secretary-General and the High Representative for Disarmament of the United Nations. As the Korean diplomat, he served as the Secretary to the ROK (Republic of Korea) President for Foreign Affairs and Trade as well as for International Security at the Blue House. He also served as the Director General for Policy Planning and Ambassador for Regional Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is now the Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Future Consensus Institute (Yeosijae) and the Chair Professor of the Incheon National University in Korea as well as the member of the Group of Eminent Persons for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBTO).

0 Professor, Korea National Defense University(2016-)
0 President, Korea Defense Diplomacy Association(2018-)
　　＊韓国国防外交協会 会長
0 Vice President, Korea Defense Association(2019-)
0 Special Advisor, ROK Army Chief of Staff(2020-)
0 Special Advisor, Joint Chief of Staff(2018-)
0 Korea Defense Attache to the Japan(2011-2015)
0 Korea Army Attache to the Japan(2005-2008)
0 Senior Officer for International Policy, Ministry of National Defense(2000-2004)

Peter Ward is a research fellow at the Sejong Institute. His work focuses on North Korean politics, the economy and society. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna.

The Honourable Yuen Pau Woo is an independent Senator in the Parliament of Canada, representing British Columbia. He is a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Peace and Security in the Korean Peninsula. He has previously served as President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and on the Standing Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council.

Andrew Yeo is a Professor of Politics and Director of Asian Studies at The Catholic University of America and the SK-Korea Foundation chair at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of is State, Society and Markets in North Korea (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Asia’s Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century (Stanford University Press, 2019) and author or co-editor of three other books: North Korean Human Rights: Activists and Networks (Cambridge University Press 2018); Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests (Cambridge University Press 2011); and Living in an Age of Mistrust: An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust in Contemporary Society and Politics and How to get it Back (Routledge Press 2017). His research and teaching interests include international relations theory, Asian security, narratives and discourse, the formation of beliefs, ideas, and worldviews, civil society, social and transnational movements, U.S. grand strategy and global force posture, Korean politics, and North Korea. Dr. Yeo’s scholarly publications have appeared in International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, Journal of East Asian Studies, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific among others.

Sukjoon Yoon is a Navy Captain, Republic of Korea Navy (retired), and is currently a senior fellow of the Korea Institute for Military Affairs (KIMA). Before joining KIMA, Captain Yoon’s more than thirty-five years of commissioned service included thirteen years at sea as a principal surface warfare officer and several command and staff appointments. He has been director of maritime strategy studies at the Naval War College, commanding officer of the ROKS WONSAN, chief of policy analysis section and director of policy division, ROKN Headquarters.

He graduated of the Naval Academy, ROK and of the commander’s course of the Naval War College in ROKN. He holds a MA in Chinese politics from the National Defense University, Taiwan and a Ph. D in Chinese military affairs from SPAIS, Bristol University, United Kingdom.

His academic works focus on military strategy, maritime/naval strategy, maritime security and Chinese military modernization, and his recent publications include “Establishing a Maritime Security Joint-Force Partnership Between the Republic of Korea Navy and the Korean Coast Guard,” in Ian Bowers and Collin Koh, ed., al. Grey and White Hulls: An International Analysis of the Navy-Coastguard Nexus (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); “US Interests Are Not Served by Making a Scapegoat of South Korea,” The Diplomat, January 29, 2020; “Make Way for South Korea's Underwater Drones,” The Diplomat, February 19, 2020; “From Confrontation to Conflict between China and Taiwan: Major Challenges for Taiwan’s Counter Strategy,” The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Vol. 32, No. 3, September 2020; “South Korea and the South China Sea: A Middle-Power Model for Practical Policies,’ Gordon Houlden, Scott N. Romaniuk and Nong Hong, ed., Security, Strategy, and Military Dynamics in the South China Sea (Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, 2021); “Security and Defense Issues Facing South Korea’s Next President,” The Diplomat, March 3, 2022; “What if North Korea Conducts a Seventh Nuclear Test? Likely US-ROK Alliance Responses,” 38 North, May 23, 2022; “Can South Korea Bridge NATO and the US Indo-Pacific Strategy?” The Diplomat, July 2, 2022; “South Korea’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: Some Takeaways,” ICAS, January 6, 2023; “How to Respond to the New North Korean Threat from UAV,” 38 North, January 27, 2023; “Ramification of President Yoon’s US Visit,” ICAS, May 16, 2023; “Emerging New Military Technologies in Northeast Asia ad Implications for South Korean Defense Strateg,” APCSS Nexus, forthcoming, 2023.

Current Position: Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Seoul
Professional Roles: Board Member of the Korean Association of Public Finance, Korea Resource Economics Association, and Korea Environmental Economics Association
Previous Experience: Research Fellow at the Korea Institute of Public Finance, focusing on environmental and energy taxation, tax expenditures, and consumption taxes
Major Research Fields: Environment and Energy Policy, Taxation, Tax Expenditure Policy, Disaster Management, and Non-market Valuation
Education:
PhD in Economics, Iowa State University
MA and BA in Economics, Seoul National University
Publications: Articles published in major SSCI journals, including Business Strategy and the Environment, Environmental Education Research, Land Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and Applied Economics
Book Translation: Translator of Jonathan Gruber’s Public Finance and Public Policy into Korean

Dr. Hyun Chung Yoo is currently a researcher at the Institute for National Security Strategy. She earned her doctorate degree from the Department of Law at the People's University of China and the Department of North Korea at Ewha Womans University. Her fields of study include "China's Digital Silk Road" (2020), "China's ASEAN Policy during Xi Jinping: Goal, Determinants, Prospects" (2019), "Korea Issues during Xi Jinping" (2019), and "China-China Relationship Status and Prospects: Our Foreign and Security Policy Implications" (2018).

Dr. In Joo Yoon (Research Fellow, Korea Maritime Institute)

She obtained her Ph.D. from the Korea University, majoring North Korean Studies. Her research interest includes maritime industry - especially tourism, inter-Korean cooperation in maritime issues, and North Korean economy, society, tourism, and transition. Her publications include “Assessment of Performance Related to Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG14) for Countries around the Korean Peninsula”, “A Review of the Ocean Economy of North Korea: Relationship between Economic Status and Fisheries Policy”, “A Review on the Development of Marine and Coastal Tourism in the Inter-Korean East and West Joint Special Zones”, “Tourism Development of North Korea: Facing and Managing Policy Paradox during the Phases of Nuclear Development”, “Current Status and Evaluation of Marine Tourism Resources in North Korea: an Analysis of Development Priority”, and “North Korea's Tourism Industry in the Kim Jong-un Era: Evaluation and Prospects”, etc.

She is a member of the National Unification Advisory Council, Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Unification, Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation, Inter-Korean exchange committee of Busan Metropolitan City and Gyeongsangbuk-do, and Evaluation Committee for Education and Training of the Human Resources Development Institute of Busan Metropolitan City. She was also invited to be a member of Expert Committee for Industry under the Presidential Committee on Northern Economic Cooperation, Governance section committee for the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem (YSLME) project and Beach Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries.

Dr. Ji Yeong Yoo is Senior Specialist at the Center for Economic Security and Foreign Affairs
(CESFA), an in-house research unit of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of the Republic
of Korea, and Adjunct Professor at Sogang University. Her research interest lies in
understanding the trade-security-technology nexus and its implications towards reform and
management of international economic governance. Previously, she was Associate Research
Fellow at Science & Technology Policy Institute (STEPI) and Visiting Researcher at
Georgetown University Law Center.
Her major publications include “Challenges of International Trade Law in Face of
Securitization of Supply Chain Policies – Analysis based on US Section 232 Measure and the
Relevant WTO Disputes” (2024); Adapting Innovation Policy to Changes in Technology and
Trade (co-authored, 2021 and 2022, STEPI); “Restructuring GATT Balance-of-Payments
Safeguard in the WTO System” (2019, Journal of World Trade); and “Security Exceptions in
the WTO System: Bridge or Bottle-neck for Trade and Security?” (co-authored, 2016,
Journal of International Economic Law).
She received her M.I.S. and Ph.D. in International Studies from Seoul National University
(SNU) and holds a B.Sc. in Economic History with Economics from the London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Jiso Yoon is the Director of Center for International Development and Cooperation at the Korean Women’s Development Institute (KWDI). She received Ph.D. in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State University (USA). Prior to joining KWDI, she held academic positions at Ochanomizu University (Japan), and the University of Kansas (USA). She has published widely on women’s political representation, gender and development, and women, peace and security (WPS).

Dr. YI Jisun currently works as Research Fellow at Department for Korean Unification and Future, Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS). She earned a PhD degree in Development Studies from the Dept. of International Development, King’s College London in 2018. She studied law (B.A.) and international studies (M.A.) at Ewha Women’s University. Previously, she served as a consultant (2016~2017) at the Fragility, Conflict & Violence (FCV) Team, the World Bank Group. Dr. Yi participated in research projects as Guest Researcher at the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, Princeton University. She recently publishes academic journals: “National Donors’ Legalization for International Development Cooperation: The Emerging Case of South Korea (Sep. 2021, Korea Observer)” and “Famine and Regime Response in Post-Cold War Communist States: Political Commitment, Food Distribution, and International Aid in Cuba and North Korea (Apr. 2022, Asian Perspective)” Her research interests are rested on global food security, food crisis and regime stability in North Korea and other authoritarian regimes, famine theory, communist aid, humanitarian assistance to North Korea, peace-development nexus, sustainable development, etc.

Ambassador Joseph Yun is a senior advisor to the Asia program at the U.S. Institute of Peace. As former U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, he is recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on relations with North Korea, as well as on broader U.S.-East Asian policy.

His 33-year diplomatic career has been marked by his commitment to face-to-face engagement as the best avenue for resolving conflict and advancing cross-border cooperation.

As special envoy for North Korea from 2016 to 2018, Ambassador Yun was instrumental in reopening the “New York channel,” a direct communication line with officials from Pyongyang, through which he was able to secure the release of the American student, Otto Warmbier, who had been held in captivity for 15 months.

From 2013 to 2016, he served as U.S. ambassador to Malaysia. During his tenure, Ambassador Yun hosted two visits to Malaysia by President Obama—the first by any U.S. president since 1966—resulting in the signing of the U.S.-Malaysian Comprehensive Partnership Agreement, pledging closer cooperation on security, trade, education, technology, energy, the environment, and people-to-people ties.

As principal deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2011-2013, he led efforts to normalize diplomatic relations with Myanmar. He also worked to lay the foundation for official participation by the President of the United States in the annual East Asian Summit, starting from 2011.

Previous assignments include stints as deputy assistant secretary for Southeast Asian policy, counselor for political affairs in the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, economic counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, as well as positions in South Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and France. He is the recipient of a Presidential Meritorious Service Award, four Superior Honors Awards, and nine Foreign Service Performance Awards from the U.S. State Department.

Ambassador Yun joined the Foreign Service in 1985. Prior to that, he was a senior economist for Data Resources, Inc., in Lexington, Massachusetts. He holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s from the University of Wales. He speaks Korean, English, Indonesian and French.

Wonho Yeon is a research fellow at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP). He received his B.A. in East Asian History from Yonsei University, M.A. in International Relations with a concentration in both Korea and Japan Studies from UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, and Ph.D. in Economics from Stony Brook University. His current research interests include U.S.-China trade conflict, US-China technological rivalry, economic security, and China-Japan-Korea trilateral relations. His recent publications include: Multidimensional Substitutability Measurement and Analysis: with an Application to Trade between China and South Korea (KIEP 2021), U.S.-China Technological Rivalry and Its Implications for Korea (KIEP 2020), and “Is China’s Innovation a Threat to the South Korea-China Economic Relationship?” (KEI 2020).

Dr. Chuanhong ZHANG is a professor at College of Humanities and Development Studies/ and Director of Center for International Development Cooperation Studies at College of International Development and Global Agriculture (CIDGA), China Agricultural University. Prof. Zhang also serves as the Secretary of China International Development Research Network (CIDRN) and acts as the focal point of China Chapter of Network of Southern Think-tanks (NeST). She was an academic visitor of the China Centre at University of Oxford and a visiting scholar of the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. Her research cover both China’s domestic transformation and international development cooperation, specifically on China’s poverty reduction, China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation, Gender and Development, etc. She published quite a few papers on peer-review journals such as the World Development, Journal of International Development, Studies of Comparative International Development, China Perspectives, IDS Bulletin, etc.

Jinghan Zeng is Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University. His research lies in the field of China's domestic and international politics. He is the author of Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics: National Strategy, Security and Authoritarian Governance (2022), Slogan Politics: Understanding Chinese Foreign Policy Concepts (2020) and The Chinese Communist Party's Capacity to Rule: Ideology, Legitimacy and Party Cohesion (2015). He is also the co-editor of One Belt, One Road, One Story? Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative (2021). He has published over twenty refereed articles in leading journals of politics, international relations and area studies including The Pacific Review, Journal of Contemporary China, International Affairs, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies and Third World Quarterly. He draws on his research to connect with audiences beyond academia. He frequently appears in TV and radio broadcasts including the BBC, ABC Australia, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation), Russia Today (RT), China Central Television (CCTV) and China Global Television Network (CGTN). He has been quoted in print/online publications including Financial Times, Forbes, South China Morning Post, PULSO and TODAY. He has written op-ed articles for The Diplomat, BBC(Chinese), The Conversation, Policy Forum among others.