Lina Adarrab

Lina Adarrab is a Research Intern at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI), where she supports research on political, economic, and security developments on the Korean Peninsula and U.S.-South Korea relations. Her research interests include critical minerals and energy supply chains, economic statecraft, and Northeast Asian geopolitics.

Prior to joining KEI, she was a Foreign Procurement Intern at the Advocacy Center of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, where she conducted due diligence on U.S. companies competing for foreign government contracts and monitored global trade and procurement policy developments. She also served as a Diplomatic Intern in the Economic Affairs Section of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco and as a Research Fellow at the GW Institute for Korean Studies, focusing on migration and multicultural policies in South Korea.

She is an MA candidate in international relations at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and holds a BA in international affairs, with a concentration in international economics and a minor in Korean language and literature, from the George Washington University. She studied abroad at Korea University and in Gwangju as a Critical Language Scholarship recipient. She speaks French, Arabic, and Korean.