John S. Park is senior Asia adviser at USIP, where he directs Northeast Asia track 1.5 projects. These include the U.S.-China Project on Crisis Avoidance and Cooperation, the U.S.-South Korea-Japan Trilateral Dialogue in Northeast Asia, the U.S.-China-Japan Dialogue on Risk Reduction and Crisis Prevention, and the Korea Working Group. Park advises Northeast Asia policy-focused officials at the Departments of State, Defense, and the Treasury; on the National Security Council; and on Congressional committees.
Park joined USIP from Goldman Sachs, where he worked on U.S. military privatization financing projects. Prior to that, he was the project leader of the North Korea Analysis Group at the Harvard Kennedy School. Park received his master’s of philosophy and doctorate from Cambridge University. He completed his predoctoral and postdoctoral training at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.
Publications:
- “The Leap in North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Program: The Iran Factor,” NBR Analysis (December 2012)
- “Assessing the Role of Security Assurances in Dealing with North Korea” in Security Assurances and Nuclear Nonproliferation (Stanford University Press, 2012)
- “Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission” (Washington, DC, April 2011)