Biography
Troy Stangarone is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) and Non-Resident Fellow with the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology. His research focuses on the intersection of trade, technology, and foreign policy on the Korean Peninsula and the Indo-Pacific.
Mr. Stangarone is also a columnist for The Korea Times, a contributing author for The Diplomat, as well as co-chair of the Steering Committee for the North Korea Economic Forum at the George Washington Institute for Korean Studies and a member of the Korea-America Student Conference’s National Advisory Committee. He was previously the Director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy and Deputy Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the Wilson Center.
Prior to joining the Wilson Center, he was the Senior Director at the KEI. During his time at KEI, he was a 2012-2013 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in South Korea, sponsored by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, and a Posco Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center. Mr. Stangarone also previously worked on Capitol Hill for Senator Robert Torricelli on issues relating to foreign affairs and trade.
Mr. Stangarone holds an MSc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Memphis.