Jun Pyon is a Political Affairs Officer in the Office of the Assistant Secretary-General (OASG) at the Department of Political Affairs and Peacebuilding and Peace Operations (DPPA/DPO), United Nations. Jun previously covered Asia and the Pacific region in the Office of the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Northeast Asia as the desk officer in the Department of Political Affairs. Jun was the 2005/2006 Vasey Fellow at the Pacific Forum. He holds a Masters in International Relations and Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Bachelors from the Johns Hopkins University.