Participant Biographies

Evans Revere

Evans Revere

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Plenary Session 4 - "On North Korea"

Mr. Revere is Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brooking’s Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies. He is also Senior Director at the Albright Stonebridge Group, providing strategic advice on Korea, Japan, and China. He taught at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School (2010-2011) and was president/CEO of The Korea Society (2007-2010). A former senior U.S. diplomat, he retired in 2007 as one of the State Department’s leading Asia hands, including service as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires in Seoul. He also served in the U.S. embassies in Beijing and Tokyo. He has extensive experience negotiating with the DPRK. He is fluent in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, is a graduate of Princeton University, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.