Speaker
PARK Ihn-Hwi
Affliation
Ewha Womans University
Title
Professor
Session

Biography

Park, Ihn-hwi is a professor of the Division of International Studies at Ewha Womans University in Korea. Prof. Park’s areas of expertise include 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 Association of International Studies 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 articles in leading journals including the International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, the Korea Journal of Defense Analysis, the Korean Journal of International Studies, the Global Economic Review, etc. He received his Ph. D. in the area of international politics from Northwestern University in 1999.