Participant Biographies

Peter M. Beck

Research Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi

Mr. Beck is a research fellow in the Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi at Keio University. He is also a visiting POSCO fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu. Mr. Beck teaches at American University in Washington, D.C. and Ewha University in Seoul. Previously, he was the 2009-10 Pantech research fellow at Stanford University. He has served as the executive director for the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and directed the International Crisis Group’s Northeast Asia Project in Seoul. He was also the director of Research and Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute in Washington DC.