A Conversation with Dr. Jung H. Pak, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multilateral Affairs and for Global China issues; Deputy Special Representative for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

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The Emerging Voices Program at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies presents
Dr. Jung H. Pak
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multilateral Affairs and for Global China issues;
Deputy Special Representative for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Hosted by Peter Clement, Interim Director, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

Thursday, September 29, 2022
12:00pm-2:00pm
1501 International Affairs

CUID only. Advance registration required via the Columbia/SIPA events calendars.

Biography
Dr. Jung H. Pak is a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multilateral Affairs and for Global China issues. She also serves as Deputy Special Representative for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Prior to arriving at State, she was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she focused on Korean Peninsula issues, East Asia regional dynamics, and transnational threats. While at Brookings, she authored Becoming Kim Jong Un, which has been translated into multiple languages and draws from her deep knowledge and experience as an intelligence officer. Pak has held senior positions at the Central Intelligence Agency and served as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Korea at the National Intelligence Council. Before her career in national security, Dr. Pak taught U.S. history at Hunter College in New York City. She received her PhD from Columbia University and studied in South Korea as a Fulbright Scholar. Pak is a graduate of Colgate University, where she is Trustee Emerita and recipient of an honorary doctorate.

Moderator Biography
Clement has been a senior member of the Institute since 2018. A Russia expert, Clement teaches courses on Contemporary Russian Security Policy and Intelligence and Foreign Policy, and has won several teaching awards for his courses. Clement also directs the Institute's initiative, "Emerging Voices in National Security and Intelligence."
In 2018, Clement retired from CIA, where he held several senior analytic and management positions, most recently as Deputy Assistant Director of CIA for Europe and Eurasia; prior positions included eight years as Deputy Director for Intelligence for Analytic Programs, and Director of the Office of Russian and Eurasian Analysis. Clement served as the PDB daily briefer for Vice-President Cheney, NSC Adviser Rice and Deputy NSC Adviser Hadley in 2003-2004 and did a brief tour at the National Security Council as the Director for Russia and later as the senior CIA representative to the US Mission to the United Nations.
Clement has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2001 and is a longtime member of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. Previously, he taught Russian history and politics for over 10 years at the University of Maryland, the University of Virginia's northern Virginia campus, and two years as a visiting professor at Columbia (2013-2015). Clement has published journal articles and book chapters on Soviet and Russian foreign policy, US intelligence reform, and the Cuban missile crisis. He holds a Ph.D. in Russian history and an M.A. in Modern European history from Michigan State University, and a B.A. in liberal arts from SUNY-Oswego.

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