Kongdan Oh

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
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Katy Oh is a specialist in East Asian affairs. She focuses on North and South Korea and Japan. Her research projects include regional security, inter-regional politics, and U.S. security and foreign policy on Asia.

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Expertise

  • East Asian security and international relations
  • U.S. foreign and security policy toward East Asia
  • North and South Korea, Japan, and China

Experience

Current Positions

  • Research Staff Member, Institute for Defence Analyses (since 1997)

Past Positions

  • Political Scientist, RAND (1987-1995)
  • Academic Program Coordinator, Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley (1986-1987)
  • Lecturer, The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
  • Lecturer, Graduate Program in International Commerce and Policy, George Mason University
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego
  • Lecturer, Graduate Program in Pacific Basin Studies, Dominican College
  • Consultant, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Education

  • Ph.D., M.A. in Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley (1981/1986)
  • M.A. in Korean Language and Literature, Seoul National University, 1974
  • B.A. in Korean Language and Literature and Oriental History, Sogang University, 1971

Language Fluency

  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean

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