Sang Hyun Lee is the president of the Sejong Institute and the Korea Nuclear Policy Society. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Seoul National University and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999. He was a policy advisor for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of National Unification, and Ministry of National Defense. He served as Director-General for Policy Planning from May 2011 to April 2013. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Development and Security in Stockholm and Stimson Center in Washington DC. His recent publications include “Prospects for the Biden Administration’s Foreign Policy” (2021) and South Korea’s Foreign Policy in the Era of U.S.-China Strategic Competition (2020, co-authored).