Mr. Flake is Executive Director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation a position he has held since February 1999. He was previously a Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Program on Conflict Resolution at The Atlantic Council of the United States and Director for Research and Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute. Mr. Flake is editor of several edited volumes including most recently One Step Back? Reassessing an Ideal Security State for Northeast Asia 2025 (Mansfield Foundation, March 2011). He serves on the Board of the United States Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (USCSCAP), on the Board of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and the Advisory Council of the Korea Economic Institute of America. Mr. Flake received his B.A. degree from Brigham Young University in Utah. He completed his M.A. at the David M. Kennedy Center for International and Area Studies, also at B.Y.U.