NCNK Steering Committee Member

Senior Associate
The Asia Foundation and CSIS Pacific Forum

Security

Expertise

- Humanitarian assistance

- Inter-Korean Relations

- Korean peninsula security issues

- Sino-Korean Relations

- US-ROK Relations

Background

From 2000-2004, Snyder served as the Asia Foundation Seoul Representative; during this time he hosted multiple delegations from the DPRK to the U.S. He has also written extensively about North Korea: Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior (USIP Press, 1999) Paved With Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea, ed. with L. Gordon Flake (Praeger, 2003) Comparative Connections, Sino-Korean Relations Quarterly Summary (available at www.csis.org).

Biography

Scott Snyder is a Senior Associate in the International Relations program of The Asia Foundation and Pacific Forum CSIS, and is based in Washington, DC. He spent four years in Seoul as Korea Representative of The Asia Foundation during 2000-2004. Previously, he has served as a Program officer in the Research and Studies Program of the U.S. Institute of Peace, and as Acting Director of The Asia Society's Contemporary Affairs Program. Snyder received his B.A. from Rice University and an M.A. from the Regional Studies East Asia Program at Harvard University. During 2005-2006, he was a Pantech Visiting Research Fellow at Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center (APARC). He was the recipient of an Abe Fellowship, during 1998-99, and was a Thomas G. Watson Fellow at Yonsei University in South Korea in 1987-88.

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