Sue Mi Terry

Dr. Sue Mi Terry is the senior fellow for Korea Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is an expert on the Korean Peninsula and East Asia, with extensive experience in intelligence, policymaking, academia, and think tanks. Dr. Terry’s extensive career includes roles such as Senior Analyst at the CIA (2001-2008), Director of Korea, Japan, and Oceanic Affairs at the National Security Council under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council (2009-2010), CFR’s National Intelligence Fellow (2010-2011). Since 2011, she has been a Senior Research Scholar at the Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Senior Advisor for Korea at Bower Group Asia, Senior Fellow with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Director of the Asia Program and the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy at the Wilson Center. She is a producer of Beyond Utopia, a documentary film about refugees escaping North Korea which won the DuPont- Columbia award for excellence in broadcast journalism. The film was also short-listed for the Academy Awards and nominated for a British Academy Award. She holds a B.A. in political science from New York University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.