Nicole M. Finnemann
Director of Academic Affairs & Research

Office: 202-222-0023
E-mail: nmf@keia.org

Nicole Finnemann is the Director of Research and Academic Affairs of the Korea Economic Institute. Having originally joined the institute in January 2007, Ms. Finnemann was named Academic Director in May 2008—a position which entails organizing and participating in KEI’s 16 to 20 annual university programs around the country as well as its annual academic symposium, which in 2008 was held at New York University in partnership with the Stern Business School.  In Washington, Ms. Finnemann is responsible for programming related to North Korea, student-related events, and KEI’s Academic Paper Series, as well as the publication containing papers prepared for the academic symposium. Ms. Finnemann’s primary substantive areas of research are negotiation and North Korea. She returned from her first visit to Pyongyang in April 2008.

In addition to previous experience at KEI, Ms. Finnemann participated in referendum and peace agreement drafting as a research associate for the Darfur and Iraq team of the Public International Law and Policy Group, cofounded the American University Negotiation Project (AUNP), and was named a 2008 Presidential Management Finalist. Outside of KEI, Ms. Finnemann is a cofounder of the LINC partnership, a consultancy providing negotiation and mediation training materials.

Prior to moving to Washington, Ms. Finnemann spent over three years abroad—teaching math and English and developing educational curricula in Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, Sicily, and Ulsan, South Korea. She speaks Spanish fluently and some Italian and Korean. She completed her Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in mathematics and comparative religions at Kalamazoo College, Michigan, where she was a Clare Boothe Luce Scholar, and holds a master’s degree in International Conflict Resolution from The American University’s School of International Service. Originally, Ms. Finnemann hails from Minnesota.