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John Park

Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

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Email: John_Park@harvard.edu

Experience

Dr. John Park is an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom's North Korea Analysis Group at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.  Dr. Park received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University where he was a Canadian Government Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellow.  While a predoctoral research fellow at Harvard from 1998–2000, he completed his dissertation on International Atomic Energy Agency inspections during the 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis.

Prior to returning to Harvard for his postdoctoral studies, Dr. Park worked in Goldman Sachs’s M&A Advisory Group in Hong Kong and The Boston Consulting Group's Financial Services Practice in Seoul.  In both posts, he specialized in post–Asian financial crisis economic restructuring projects in South Korea.  His current research focuses on the multilateral diplomatic efforts to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis.  He has been conducting extensive on-going research interviews with each of the Six-Party Talks member countries’ core government policy advisers.

His recent publications include “Inside Multilateralism: The Six-Party Talks,” The Washington Quarterly (Autumn 2005), and “Creating a Best Case Scenario” (book chapter) in John Barry Kotch and Frank-Jürgen Richter (eds.), Korea Confronts the Future (Marshall Cavendish, 2005).  His writings have appeared in Asian Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Korea Times, Korea Herald, Straits Times, Globe and Mail, South China Morning Post, and Japan Times.  He has also been a commentator on the Six-Party Talks on BBC World Service, CNN, CNBC Asia, Bloomberg TV, NPR, and Reuters.

Dr. Park is currently the coordinator of the Korea Working Group at the U.S. Institute of Peace.  He will be maintaining his research affiliation with the Project on Managing the Atom.