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Join us for a discussion on regional roles in building inter-Korean peace and unification with Columbia University adjunct professor Katrin Fraser Katz, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace senior research analyst Kathryn Botto, and Columbia University adjunct professor, Weatherhead East Asian Institute research scholar and Society senior director Stephen Noerper. Policy director Jonathan Corrado moderates the discussion, which enjoys the support of the UniKorea Foundation. Columbia University’s Center for Korean Research (CKR) partners for this exciting discussion.

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Role of Regional Players in Inter-Korean Peace and Unification
with
Katrin Fraser Katz, Kathryn​ Botto and Stephen Noerper

Friday, April 16, 2021 | 12 PM

The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Katrin Fraser Katz is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University and an Adjunct Fellow (Non-resident) in the Office of the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. Dr. Katz’s research, which has been supported by grants from the Korea Foundation and the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, explores the interplay of cooperation and conflict in East Asia’s political, economic, and security dynamics. She has taught in the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University and was a 2018-19 US-Korea NextGen Scholar. In 2017, she received the inaugural Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Series award from the Korea Society. Dr. Katz served as director for Japan, Korea, and oceanic affairs on the staff of the White House National Security Council from 2007 to 2008. She was also a special assistant to the assistant secretary for international organization affairs at the U.S. Department of State and an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University; a master’s degree in East Asian and international security studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she was awarded the John C. Perry Scholarship for East Asian Studies; and a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in international relations and Japanese from the University of Pennsylvania.

Kathryn Botto is a ​senior research analyst in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research focuses on Asian security issues, with particular emphasis on the Korean Peninsula and U.S. defense policy towards East Asia. Botto’s research interests also include alliance management, defense policy making in select Asian nations, and trilateral cooperation between the United States, South Korea, and Japan. Before joining Carnegie in July 2018, Botto was a research associate in the Strategy Division of the U.S. Forces Korea, Combined Forces Command, and United Nations Command. Previously, she was a research fellow at the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies.

Stephen Noerper has led public policy programs at the Korea Society for twelve years and taught on Korea for a half decade at Columbia University’s Department of Political Science and School of International and Public Affairs. He has been a Weatherhead East Asian Institute research scholar and has advised the United Nations program to support cooperation in Northeast Asia. Dr. Noerper served prior with the EastWest Institute, New York University, Intellibridge, US State Department, and US Defense Department’s Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies. He was a visiting fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii and resident representative for the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development in Washington, DC. He was a visiting professor at Japan’s Waseda University and the National University of Mongolia, where he was a Fulbright senior scholar teaching on Korea. He was a visiting fellow at Korea’s Institute for Foreign Affairs and National Security. Dr. Noerper has authored more than seventy publications on Korea and Northeast Asia and appeared on Arirang, the ABC, BBC, Bloomberg, CBC, CNN, MSNBC, NHK, NPR and VOA and in The Wall Street Journal and Korean and US print. He has served on three philanthropic boards and received Mongolia’s State Friendship medal. He is a member of the National Committee on North Korea and a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and London School of Economics. Dr. Noerper has lectured on Korea across Asia, Europe, Eurasia and the United States.