Lee Chung Min

Dr. Lee Chung Min is a Senior Fellow (Asia Program) at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a professor at the Institute of Security Convergence at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and Chairman of the International Advisory Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Previously, he taught for nearly 20 years at the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University and served as the ROK’s Ambassador for National Security Affairs (2013-2016) and Ambassador for International Security Affairs (2010-2011). He also served as a member of the Presidential Foreign Policy Advisory Council (2009-2011). Dr. Lee is the author of The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un (St. Martin’s Press, 2019) and Fault Lines in a Rising Asia (Carnegie, 2016). He is currently revising an Adelphi Book for IISS on Korean defense choices into the 2020s. His next book focuses on the sources, goals, and limitations of Asian Power in the 21st century. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Yonsei University and his Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.