Dr. Hahm is the President of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Previously, he was a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California; professor in the School of International Relations and the Department of Political Science as well as the Director of the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California; Director (D-1) of the Division of Social Sciences Research & Policy at UNESCO in Paris, France; and professor in the Department of Political Science at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. Dr. Hahm received a B.A. in economics from Carleton College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the Johns Hopkins University.