Amy Studdart is a Program Associate for Asia at the German Marshall Fund of the United States where she helps co-ordinate the bi-annual Stockholm China Forum, contributes to programming on Korea and Japan and represents GMF`s Asia program in Brussels. She started her career at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she took the lead on outreach and Asia programming at the then-newly established Europe office. Her current focus is on the China-DPRK relationship and the EU`s DPRK policy. She is also working on China`s role in the Southern Atlantic, the implications of Chinese nationalism for European policymaking, and Europe-U.S. cooperation on China policy. Amy was born in Antigua and grew up in Grenada before moving to the UK for schooling. She has a BA in East Asian Studies from the University of Sheffield.