The National Committee on North Korea


Marcus Noland Marcus Noland

    Senior Fellow
    Institute for International Economics

    Email: mnoland@iie.com






Working Groups

    Human Security
    Economic Development

Expertise

    - Economics
    - Famine and Hunger
    - Human Security
    - Korean unification

Background

    Dr. Marcus Noland is one of the few U.S. economists to devote considerable effort to researching and analyzing the DPRK's economic system. Noland is the author of Korea after Kim Jong-il 2004,) and Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas (2000), for which he won the prestigious 2000-01 Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Award,given annually to the book that best promotes cooperation within the Pacific Rim. Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform written with Stephan Haggard with a foreword by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will be published by the Columbia University Press in February 2007.

Biography

    Marcus Noland has been associated with the Institute for International Economics since 1985. His work encompasses a wide range of topics including the political economy of US trade policy and the Asian financial crisis. His areas of geographical knowledge and interest include Asia and Africa where he has lived and worked. In the past he has written extensively on the economies of Japan, Korea, and China.

    He was educated at Swarthmore College (B.A.), and the Johns Hopkins University (Ph.d). He was a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President of the United States and has held research or teaching positions at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern California, Tokyo University, Saitama University, the University of Ghana, the Korea Development Institute, and the East-West Center. He has received fellowships sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, and the Pohang Iron and Steel Corporation (POSCO).

    Noland is the author of Pacific Basin Developing Countries: Prospects for the Future (1990); coauthor of Industrial Policy in an Era of Globalization: Lessons From Asia (2003), No More Bashing: Building a New Japan-United States Economic Relationship (2001), Global Economic Effects of the Asian Currency Devaluations (1998), Reconcilable Differences? United States-Japan Economic Conflict with C. Fred Bergsten (1993) and editor of Economic Integration of the Korean Peninsula (1998). In addition to these and other books he has written many scholarly articles on international economics, US trade policy, and the economies of the Asia-Pacific region. He has served as an occasional consultant to organizations, such as the World Bank,and the National Intelligence Council, and has testified before the US Congress on numerous occasions.






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