Belle Rudge
Belle Rudge is a Program Manager at Pacific Forum. With extensive experience in foreign affairs, Belle has worked with high-level stakeholders across the Asia-Pacific to support policy dialogue and regional cooperation. Prior to joining Pacific Forum, Belle served with both the U.S. Department of State and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, advising […]
Varuna Shankar
Ms. Varuna Shankar is an Editorial Manager at India’s World Magazine, based in New Delhi. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the School of Liberal Arts, G.D. Goenka University, India. She is a Non-Resident Vasey Fellow at the Pacific Forum (2025-26). She holds a master’s in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and […]
Philip Alegre
Philip Alegre is currently a Non-Resident Vasey Fellow at the Pacific Forum. He was part of the 2022 cohort of the US-Philippines Next Generation Leaders in Security Initiative. In 2022, he completed the Security Sector Governance and Reform Program of the Folke Bernadotte Academy of Sweden and more recently graduated from the Yeosu Academy on […]
Lina Chang
Lina Chang is a second-year undergraduate at Pomona College double majoring in Public Policy Analysis/Politics and Media Studies. Her research interests include US-ROK-Japan trilateral relations, East Asian soft power, and Women, Peace and Security issues. She is currently a Research Assistant at Pomona College.
Xiaoyi (Yee) Ze
Xiaoyi (Yee) Ze’s research interests include international relations, East Asian culture and history, Chinese diaspora, and international development. She holds a PhD in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia and a MA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her PhD dissertation centers on East Asia international relations in the late nineteenth century, […]
Chitrali Parashar
Chitrali Parashar is an Analyst with The Asia Group’s Japan practice. Before joining The Asia Group, Chitrali interned with the East Asia and Pacific practice at the Albright Stonebridge Group. In the summer of 2023, she broke new ground as the first foreign national to intern with the International Strategy Unit of Japan’s Digital Agency. Her work there included research […]
Phuong Pham
Phuong Pham is a research analyst at Laber Labs, a machine learning research group based in the Department of Statistical Science, Duke University. His research interests lie at the intersection of international political economy and international security, focusing on how private actors shape economic statecraft instruments, and how firms’ commercial interests influence states’ security interests. […]
Chrissy Fisher
Chrissy Fisher is a Program Manager at Pacific Forum and will support the newly established Honolulu Defense Forum (HDF). Previously she served as the Defense Support & Engagement Officer and the Executive Assistant to the Consul-General & Public Diplomacy Officer at the Australian Consulate-General in Honolulu. In these roles, she managed VIP events and visits, handled […]
Sheewon Min
Sheewon Min recently graduated from Georgetown University with a Master’s in Asian Studies with dual concentrations in international political economy and politics and security. She is a current research intern at the Korea Economic Institute (KEI), where she mainly investigates ROK-ROC-PRC relations and U.S. alliance frameworks. While her regional focus is mainly on the Indo-Pacific […]
Chitrali Parashar
Chitrali Parashar is an Analyst with The Asia Group’s Japan practice. Before joining The Asia Group, Chitrali interned with the East Asia and Pacific practice at the Albright Stonebridge Group. In the summer of 2023, she broke new ground as the first foreign national to intern with the International Strategy Unit of Japan’s Digital Agency. Her […]
