Our Team

Dr. Kongdan (Katy) Oh is an independent scholar. She was formerly a Senior Asia Specialist at the Institute for Defense Analyses (1997-2021), a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution (1997-2016), and a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation (1987-1995). She has taught courses at the University of California at San Diego, George Washington University, and the University of Maryland University College in Asia. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Directors of the United States Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, and the Board of Directors of the Korea Economic Institute of America, and she is the co-founder and former co-director of The Korea Club of Washington, D.C.

Dr. Oh has authored, co-authored, and edited eight books and numerous research monographs, articles, and book chapters. She has briefed top policy makers of the United States, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom. She is fluent in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, and can communicate in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Her most recent co-authored book is The Hidden People of North Korea (Second Edition, 2015), and her next co-authored book is North Korea in a Nutshell: A Contemporary Overview, which will come out in June 2021. The publication of her Korean-language memoir is expected sometime in the summer of 2021.