Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asian Security Affairs
Background : Dr. Chung Min Lee is Dean and Professor of International Relations, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University. Dr. Lee concurrently serves as a member of the President’s Foreign Policy Advisory Council and the Presidential Committee on Future & Vision. He is also an advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Policy and Unification Committee of the National Assembly and other government agencies.
Dr. Lee was a visiting professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (2005-2007), the Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo (2004-2005), a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation (1995-1998), and a visiting research fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo (1994-1995). Dr. Lee also served as a research fellow at the Sejong Institute, Seoul (1989-1994) and the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1985-1988).
Dr. Lee received his MALD and his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University in 1988 and his B.A. in political science from Yonsei University in 1982. For over twenty years, Dr. Lee has written extensively on various aspects of East Asian security including strategic developments on the Korean peninsula. His research covers international and Asian security and defense planning, WMD proliferation, crisis management, and intelligence. Dr. Lee has lived in ten countries and is a citizen of the Republic of Korea.
Dr. Lee is a member of the IISS (London) and a member of the board of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs (SFIA).
Joined IISS: April 2009
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