Dr. Park is the Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, he directed Northeast Asia Track 1.5 projects at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) and worked at Goldman Sachs, where he specialized in U.S. military privatization financing projects. His research focuses on the effectiveness of financial sanctions as a counterproliferation policy tool in the North Korean case. His publications include: “Assessing the Role of Security Assurances in Dealing with North Korea” in Security Assurances and Nuclear Nonproliferation (2012); “North Korea, Inc.: Gaining Insights into North Korean Regime Stability from Recent Commercial Activities” (2009); “North Korea’s Nuclear Policy Behavior: Deterrence and Leverage,” in The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia (2008). He received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Cambridge University and completed his pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.