Dr. Lee Chung Min is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. and chairman of the advisory council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He taught at the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University from 1998-2018 and has more than 30 years of professional experience working at leading think tanks and universities in Korea, Japan, Singapore, and the United States including the RAND Corporation, the National University of Singapore, National Institute for Defense Studies (Tokyo), and the Sejong Institute (Seoul). He also served as ambassador for National Security Affairs (2013-2016) and International Security Affairs (2009-2010). Dr. Lee is the author of Fault Lines in a Rising Asia (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2016) and his forthcoming book, The Hermit King: Kim Jong Un at the Crossroads of History is going to be published in September 2019 by St. Martin’s Press.