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Atman Trivedi

Hills & Company Atman Trivedi has over 20 years of high-level policy, legal, and communications experience across foreign affairs, trade, and defense with a deep understanding and set of relationships in the Asia region. His areas of expertise include India, China, Southeast Asia, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, global trade, CFIUS, economic sanctions/export control policy, WMD […]

Akira Igata

Project Lecturer, RCAST, The University of Tokyo Akira Igata is a Project Lecturer at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at Pacific Forum, a US-based think tank, and a Non-Executive Director at the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC). He advises the Japanese […]

Junbeom Pyon

United Nations Jun Pyon is a Political Affairs Officer in the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs at the United Nations. Jun previously covered Asia and the Pacific 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 […]

Jeffrey Ordaniel

Director, Maritime Programs Jeffrey ORDANIEL is non-resident Adjunct Senior Fellow and Director of Maritime Programs at the Pacific Forum. Concurrently, he is also Assistant Professor of International Security Studies at Tokyo International University (TIU) in Japan. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and specializes in the study of offshore territorial and maritime entitlement disputes in […]

Lami Kim

University of Hong Kong Dr. Lami Kim is a lecturer at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong.  A nuclear specialist and a Korea expert, she has served as a research fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center, Pacific Forum CSIS and Stimson Center, and also as a South Korean diplomat.  Her […]

Jang Mook Kang

Center of Big-Data Industrial Security, Namseoul University Dr. Kang received his Ph.D. in Information Security Engineering at Korea University in 2005. In 2009, he received a Ph.D. in Political Science as a major in Political Law. Since then, he has been carrying out interdisciplinary research in social science and engineering. Recently, his interests have led him to explore modeling that […]

James Jongsoo Lee

A finance professional and business consultant, James Lee is a scholar and expert in national security, foreign policy, and Indo-Pacific, Eurasian and global affairs.  Trained as a historian and a political scientist, James is passionate about contributing creative policy solutions to challenges facing the Indo-Pacific region and the wider world. A Partner and Senior Managing […]

David S. Lee

University of Hong Kong David is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong Business School, where he works broadly in the areas of ethics, corporate governance, fintech, leadership, and the economics and politics of the Korean peninsula. He is a UGC Teaching Award recipient, the highest university teaching honor in Hong Kong, and […]

Sungmin Cho

Professor, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Dr. Sungmin Cho is a professor of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, an academic institute of the US Department of Defense, based in Hawaii. His area of expertise covers China-Korean Peninsula relations, North Korea’s nuclear program, and the US alliance in East Asia. Dr. Cho […]

Kristi Govella

Director of the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs and Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Dr. Kristi Govella is the inaugural Director of the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs and an Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She specializes in the intersection of economics and security in […]