Park, Ihn-hwi is a professor of the Division of International Studies at Ewha Womans University in Korea. Prof. Park’s area of expertise includes international security, U.S. foreign policy, Northeast Asian international relations, and inter-Korean relations. He has been a member of the Advisory Committee of the Office of National Security between 2017 and 2019, and a member of the Preparatory Committee for Unification in which the Chairperson of the committee was the president of Korea between 2014 and 2017. Prof. Park is currently vice president of the Korea Association of International Studies and holds the same position in the Korea Area Studies Association, the Korean Association of North Korean Studies, and the Korean Association of Peace Studies. He is also actively engaged in many NGOs and Think-tanks such as the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation, the Korea Peace Foundation, The Ahnmin Institute for Public Policy, etc. He was a visiting scholar at the Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington in 2010. Prof. Park has written many articles in leading journals including International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, Korea Journal of Defense Analysis, the Korean Journal of International Studies, Global Economic Review, and etc. He received his Ph. D. in the area of international politics from Northwestern University in 1999.

이화여자대학교 국제학부 교수로 재직 중이며(2004년부터), 2010년 미국 워싱턴 대학교 잭슨국제관계대학원 방문교수를 다녀왔다. 청와대 국가안보실 자문위원(2017~19)과 대통령 직속 통일준비위원회 외교안보 전문위원(2014~2017)을 역임했다. 외교부, 통일부, 국방부 정책자문위원을 역임했고, 민화협, 안민정책포럼, 한반도평화만들기, 중앙일보 리셋코리아 등 각종 싱크탱크 및 NOG 활동에도 적극 참여하고 있다. 주요 학회활동으로는 현재 한국국제정치학회 부회장, 평화연구학회 부회장, 북한연구학회 부회장 등을 역임하고 있다. 연구 분야는 국제안보, 외교정책, 한미관계, 동북아국제관계 등이다. 주요 저서로는 <한국형 발전모델의 대외관계사>(편저, 2018), <탈냉전사의 인식>(편저, 2012) 등이 있고, 대표 논문으로는 “한반도 안보-안보부재의 정치학: 한미-남북 관계의 모순적 결합”(한국정치학회보, 2011) 외 다수 연구업적이 있다.