Participant Biographies

Scott Snyder

Scott Snyder

Senior Fellow and Director, Program on U.S.-Korea Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Session 4 - "The New Normal in Korea-Japan Relations"

Mr. Scott Snyder is Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where he had served as an Adjunct Fellow from 2008 to 2011. Previously, he was Senior Associate in the International Relations Program of The Asia Foundation, where he founded and directed the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy and served as The Asia Foundation’s representative in Korea (2000-04). He was also Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Pacific Forum. Mr. Snyder has written extensively on Northeast Asia, Korean politics, and Asian regionalism and is the author of The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States with Brad Glosserman (Columbia University Press, 2015), China’s Rise and the Two Koreas: Politics, Economics, Security (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009), and Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior (The Academy of Political Science, 1999). Mr. Snyder received a B.A. from Rice University, an M.A. from Harvard University, and was a Thomas G. Watson fellow at Yonsei University in South Korea.